Dear "Al-David"...

Your comment(s) on "Ice Cold Winter Blues" was right on!

You hit the proverbial nail right on the noggin' when you used the word, "over-play." For some time I've harbored a vague-but-rapidly-forming suspicion that the typical audience for the "blues" seem to demand nothing less from guitar soloists than to have them gut their instrument and flog their naked backs with the strings while they scream, "Ooo-ooo, yeee-aaahhh, beat me with that gui-tar stick, daddy!!!"

What I mean is that the "blues" appears to carry quite a heavy freight of expectations in the hearts of those who enjoy listening to them, that their souls must be torn asunder by the music if they are to achieve the catharsis they seek.

The absence of such sado-masochistic drama in Scottt709's "Ice Cold Winter Blues" allows us revel in the higher realm of the "blues," where pastel tones coexist with the darker shades rising out of the "pit."

I'm thinking of something along the lines of Stevie Ray Vaughn's "Riviera Paradise" as a finer example of the tone, the feel of what I heard in "Ice Cold Winter Blues."

"bluage"

"Music is what feelings sound like."-- borrowed from a Cakewalk Music Creator forum member, "Mamabear".