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Bless you Ms. Lena,
Hope the flood brings you no more trouble that a slight hangover.
Today we celebrate Thanksgiving and I have much to be thankful for. Reno is coming over to tie on the ol' feedbag and watch football with us.                                                            The John Reno C.D. "A Bonified Social Club" is the one with "Seduced". www.johnreno.com
That recording was done live at Fly Creek Cafe with a trio of John on guitar/vocals, Yours truly, Dennis (Poppy) Gray on tuba/vocals and Kurt (Slipperboy) Schneider on harmonica/vocals with 100 of our rowdy frends, a #3 washtub full of free beer and all the gumbo we could eat.
Casey told me to tell you. "Hi" and hopes you can keep your toesies dry.
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Dear Old Doll,
"Driving Home for Christmas" is a great song you honored us with. New to me as well.
I saw Chris Rea at the New Orleans jazz festival.
He has a manly man voice. I would give a bunch to sound like that.

I play tuba, tony. It is my first instrument and the one I play best. I am about too old to rattle the rafters like I used to back when I had  lungs but with a Shure SM57 mike jacked into a 300 watt J.B.L. self powered speaker I can still "git 'er done".
I play tuba on most cuts at:

http://johnreno.com/music.html

"Seduced", "Just Once" and "WeDo" have nice tuba solos.
I lead off the vocals with John in "I lobster but Never Flounder".
I love to play guitar but every time I strum an "A" chord, 10 cars outside slam on their brakes at the same time. Wonder why that happens.

This is so bad it's almost good:

http://www.youtube.com/meowychristmas

Leon Redbone plus sign language (music starts at 0.27)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3LmvvOSwKM

That was a great one, Wayne. Never heard that one before. Loved it.
Your post got me thinking about the same song John Reno and I recorded on his "Magic Chair" C.D. called "What Will We Do With a Drunken Sailor"

http://johnreno.com/audio/JOHN_RENO_THE … Sailor.mp3 (Trop rock version)
Here is the Irish Rover's version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGyPuey-1Jw

(chords are E minor and D)

I also was contemplating substituting "Drunken Santa" instead of "Drunken Sailor".
I bet it will work. What think you?
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I love Etta. Her voice cuts like a knife.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IeiHeXLE90

KAP54, that is a wonderful bit of treasure from the past. Great! Thanks, I am old enough to remember Gabriel Heater on the radio.
Deadstring, I'm looking that one up now. I have already the bassline (on tuba) and guitar chords down on that one. Cool!
I really appreciate it,sir.
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Hi Tony,
The challenge is to encourage a bar or pub to start live music. You need to show them you can take a slow night and perk it up.
Ask which evening is the slowest and if they would like to pull a bigger crowd on that night.
Offer to play for a sandwitch and a beer or two for at least two hours on their slowest night. Get on the phone and ask all your friends, in-laws, enemies,creditors etc.. to show up and hear you play and ask for requests and play them. (I used to claim that I knew every song in the world except for seven. If they request seven songs in a row I didn't know, I would pack up and go home.)Do that for enough evenings to see if you are making a difference. If you are making their register ring, they will throw some cash in to go with your beer and burger.

"Don't think twice" by Bob Dylan

http://www.chordie.com/chord.pere/www.t … _twice.crd

My grandson wanted us to learn "Back in Black" by A.C/D.C. which is quite a stretch for an old rhythm player like me.
I googled the title followed by "tutorial" and found a guy on U-Tube who took me slowly through all the licks and showed me where they were on the neck. I just about got it. I'm not even gonna try the lead guitar line but I can get enough rhythm plus riffs for fill to make the song sound right for little Casey to sing comfortably.
I think we can get away with it, okay.
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Many songwriters, The Beatles were really bad, publish wrong chords on their sheet music. Check any chord you doubt by playing along with U-Tube performances if possible. When I started I would listen, repeat and listen until I could find one note of the chord in question on my guitar. I would then listen and try until I heard and found a second tone. If you can hear and find a third tone in the chord, you are usually home free or close enough.
If you are playing along with a recording and miss a chord change, be on time for the next chord change. Stopping and repeating is a bad habit. Gotta keep the flow going. Work all this stuff out when you rehearse alone. When you put in to "play" the song keep going and don't break rhythm.
If it ain't fun, it ain't happenin'
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