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Kind words, wlbaye, but those guys wouldn't know me from Adam's house cat.
Eric Clapton never heard of me either:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFrhArymVcQ

I heard about a lady who played accordion with no shirt on.
Talk about courage!

Happy 2010 to you all.
I was watching vids about jazz funerals when I came across Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown's band and jazz funeral.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q0yCHkf … re=related

The big white guy with the moustache behind Gatemouth and to his left in this vid is Harold Floyd, a rock solid bass guitar player from Mobile, Alabama. Harold played with a fine rock band called, "Wet Willie" (first edition) out of Mobile before he joined my band playing bass and singing in a night club for a year or so.

You can see Harold better here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw85jUga … re=related

Harold married a wonderful ballet dancer and I saw his big ol' self in one of her shows dancing his heart out.
When his beautiful wife passed away, Harold moved to New Orleans and played bass for Gatemouth until he also passed.
Saw Harold recently at the beach. He is living back over here - playing bass and teaching at a fine music store.
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Mekidsmom, best to you on your day.
You are so good to people and I pray they appreciate you.

Maybe shave a toothpick thin and wedge it in next to the peg.

There are thousands of twelve bar blues songs as well as three and four chord country tunes with few variations in the melody line.

Tuba- In 8th grade, my age 13, at a band tryout, the first low note I tooted rattled the windows behind me. Gotta love that kind of power in an acoustic instrument.
Trumpet-At a Benedictine monestery at age 16 - studying to be a priest, I found a fine Olds Ambassador trumpet under a pile of costumes in a dramatics hall. Tuba fingerings worked and I fell in love with the sound. The monks let me play in in a 9-trumpet choir with a huge pipe organ. Cool!
Guitar - Age 22, my new wife got her first job and with her first paycheck, bought me a $50 Harmony
guitar instead of a radio she badly wanted (yes, that's one of many reasons I'm still married to her). I took two lessons from our local music store, then came home and started learning songs off 45 RPM records. Three months later I was playing in a country band in a sleazy bar for tips only.
Trombone - I was the leader of a jazz/rock bar band in the late 60's.I found a Bb Getzen valve trombone in a pawn shop for $50. The fingerings were the same as trumpet and the sound was one octave lower. I found a way to hold the bone and trumpet together and go from one to the other playing with no gap in the music. I bought a Conn slide trombone with a proper stand when the drummer jumped down off his riser and stomped my old Getzen flat where it lay on the floor.
The Conn slide bone had a better sound and the slide effects were almost sexy.
Got back into tuba in 1991 when I found one in a Siberian music store for 10,000 rubles ($10 U.S.)
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I have everything musical I will ever need except a looper pedal and I doubt I REALLY need one.
I got my grandson Casey bongo drums. he had to let him open that present early to play them on a gig we had on the 23rd at his former Montessori School.

Hi Sockmonkey,
Firsr thing I do is write down all the words and group them into intro, verses, bridge etc...
Then write the chords IN RED above the part of the word (syllable) where you hear the chord change. This helps with your word phrasing as well as prompting you on the rhythm and strum pattern.
I sometimes make an accent mark if there is no chord change over a word where the one beat or an important beat comes down.
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My momma would never sing this song but it sure is country.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SJhCiqBQmY

Heard this one on the John Boy and Billy Big Show:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVkp1MaRukY

Or, cameronkl7, could this be the tune you have in mind?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tJXjt5D … re=related