Originally Posted By: Crossroads
Hi Pat,

what a great Blues shuffle - everything extremely good about it. Enjoyed it a lot.

Take care,

Stefan

Thank you Stefan! I appreciate you taking time to listen, and even more so taking time to comment. I'm guessing that somebody who goes by the name CROSSROADS is a blues guitarist, but I haven't yet found one of your songs in the forum. Can you direct me to one? Oh wait.. I see that's in your signature! I'm off to listen as soon as I finish replying to a few posts here on the forum today.

update: just got back from your Youtube channel! Wow! You are one talented artist! Great music, productions skils and video editing, green screen... you have a whole boxfull of talents! I immediately subscribed to your channel!

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Hi Pat,

That was astonishingly good!

Some of the best blues I've ever heard on here.

Rog, thanks so much for listening and for commenting in a way that leaves me feeling encouraged. You know from many past correspondences that I respect your many talents, so hearing a positive evaluation from you is a particular joy to me. Seriously, thanks.


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Fabulous vocals, delivered with energy and conviction.

wow, thanks! Energy and conviction are requirements, not options, for live music. Nothing worse than trying to watch a shoe-gazer perform.

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Wonderful guitar work and a great blues tone from that guitar
which I couldn't quite see fully in the video, but which is
obviously something special.

The guitar is sadly, just a low end mexican strat. Of all my guitars it is the least expensive, by a factor of about 10. I think I got it on Craigslist for $200 USD. But its a STRAT dammit, and you need a Strat to play the blues! No other guitar delivers that throaty tone!

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Such an exciting live sound and if I lived just that bit closer,
I'd happily pay to come to one of your gigs. One of these days perhaps...

I don't think anybody anywhere is playing out in public anymore due to covid restrictions... but I play on Streetjelly and Pal Talk, both of which are accessible from anywhere in the world. PalTalk has many music rooms. When I play there it is in a room called INTERNATIONAL LIVE MUSIC CAFE because it is run by a friend. Streaming sites are an interesting mix of pros and beginners, and in a sense they are a grass roots source of real people playing whatever they can. Very interesting. Sometimes terrible, sometimes awesome.

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You really HAVE to do some more of this.

Take care and stay safe old pal.

ROG.

Thanks for the encouragement Rog. I truly do appreciate it. After years of watching everybody else post their songs, my new years resolution is to write some original music in 2021. So there WILL be more. Whether or not any of it will be worth listening to remains to be seen I guess.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ey71h8ep047758h/AAC12jNM0Hz9Q8zsh5iDeqNHa?dl=0