(Country Blues / Acoustic Solo Guitar Blues) Bill 'Blues Boy Jag' Jagitsch - Cypress Grove Blues / Four Strings / Juke Joint Boogie / Pretty Girl Blues - 2004 / 2007 / 2004 / 2004 - Jagwerks

I started playing rock guitar in 1978. OK, I banged on it a few times in 1976 but that doesn't count. I started playing in a cover band in Little Rock while still in high school. You know the story; Zep, Who, Stones, Skynyrd, etc.
I did that for a few years then started to teach guitar while in college. I opened up my own recording studio in 1984 (still in business) and recorded about 40 90 minute cassettes of my own music over the next 20+ years. This was more experimental/rock/imporovisation music in the vein of old Pink Floyd or Captain Beeheart.
I got into blues after discovering Robert Johnson and RL Burnside in 1998. I had heard lots of blues over the years but the only artist I really liked was Stevie Ray Vaughan. My music sounds nothing like him however. I had put down my guitar for a few years after getting hooked on computers. I only played sporadically but I noticed that I was abscent mindedly playing old blues riffs.
I remembered that I had the Robert Johnson box set from the 30's and I started listening to it, not really intending to learn that style. A co-worker at the time was listening to internet radio and one fo the stations played lots of old blues artists like Son House, Mississippi Fred McDowell and of coure Robert Johnson. I was immediately hooked on the raw, funky style and investigated further.
Learning these songs by ear was difficult as many are tuned differently from traditional guitar tunings and many artists of that era used capos to change keys which made it almost impossible to figure out what the tunings were. Eventually I stumbled across a video of Bukka White playing what looked like open E tuning. I tried it and voila! I was playing Robert Johnson licks in no time.
I recorded my first 4 cd's in a little less than 12 months, 3 more followed in quick succsession.
After years of playing complicated and almost orchestrated music that took days or weeks to record one song, it was refreshing to be able to knock out several songs in a day with just a guitar and a microphone. The fingerstyle picking allows the guitarist to use the thumb for the bass notes the the first and second fingers for the melody and chords. A full band can be imitated with just one guitar in this manner. This is one of the defining techniques of country blues (also know as delta blues). I've also taken up the blues harp which is featured in many of my songs as a solo or melodic intrument.
I'm also recording what I call 'full band' blues at home on my trusty Apple Mac which includes electric guitar, bass, drums, and even some electronica influences. Many of these songs reference the minimal sounds of the Chess Records recordings of Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Little Walter. So far I have recorded two CD's of 'electric blues'. I hope you enjoy my music - many people believe the blues is a dyiing art from ut nothing coudl be further from the truth, if anything it's growing and web sites like Magnatune can do nothing but help further 'the cause'.

Jag - Cypress Grove Blues - 2004 (?) - Jagwerks
Жанр: Country Blues / Acoustic Solo Guitar Blues
Год издания диска: 2004 (?)
Издатель (лейбл): Jagwerks
Аудио кодек: FLAC (*.flac)
Тип рипа: tracks
Битрейт аудио: lossless
Продолжительность: 54:42
Источник (релизер): куплено камрадом Vesdaris на magnatune.com в виде лосслесс файлов (.cue и лог, естественно, отсутствуют)
Наличие сканов в содержимом раздачи: частично
Треклист:
01. Train Train (3:18)
02. Homebound (3:01)
03. Walkin By Myself (2:59)
04. Guitar Rag (3:32)
05. Levy Camp Moan (2:34)
06. South Austin Blues (3:08)
07. Reckless Woman Blues (2:38)
08. Long Road To Travel (2:29)
09. 1 Carona, No Lime (2:35)
10. Scrapper's Blues (1:57)
11. Barroom Boogie (3:03)
12. Ballin' the Jack (trad) (2:20)
13. Runnin the Line (3:21)
14. Goin' Down (3:01)
15. Cypress Boogie (2:15)
16. Baby Don't Say That (2:03)
17. Texas Summer Blues (2:42)
18. Slide Boogie (1:56)
19. Cause You Been Messin 'Round (2:31)
20. Greyhound Blues (3:18)

Jag - Four Strings - 2007 (?) - Jagwerks
#777Жанр: Country Blues / Acoustic Solo Guitar Blues
Год издания диска: 2007 (?)
Издатель (лейбл): Jagwerks (?)
Аудио кодек: FLAC (*.flac)
Тип рипа: tracks
Битрейт аудио: lossless
Продолжительность: 67:49
Источник (релизер): куплено камрадом Vesdaris на magnatune.com в виде лосслесс файлов (.cue и лог, естественно, отсутствуют)
Наличие сканов в содержимом раздачи: частично
Треклист:
01. Tell Your Mama (3:12)
02. Juke City (2:11)
03. All Worn Out (2:33)
04. Red Barn Door (1:24)
05. Fishin' Blues (3:22)
06. Square Dance Boogie (3:27)
07. Country Romp (2:20)
08. Long Way Home (2:00)
09. Harley Box Blues (3:00)
10. You Shouldn't Say That (2:28)
11. Sometimes I'm Lonely Rag (2:38)
12. Bumblebee (2:36)
13. Skinny Dippin' (2:28)
14. You're Cheatin' On Me (2:16)
15. One Last Walk (2:20)
16. Done Me Wrong (2:14)
17. Tip Jar Blues (2:44)
18. Riverside Rag (2:49)
19. Helena Street Corner Blues (2:01)
20. Your Daddy Don't Know (3:13)
21. Argenta Train Blues (3:18)
22. Dark Hollow (2:48)
23. Four String Blues (2:18)
24. Whiskey Chaser (3:31)
25. Four On The Floor (2:37)
26. Leap Frog (2:06)

Jag - Juke Joint Boogie - 2004 (?) - Jagwerks
#777Жанр: Country Blues / Acoustic Solo Guitar Blues
Год издания диска: 2004 (?)
Издатель (лейбл): Jagwerks
Аудио кодек: FLAC (*.flac)
Тип рипа: tracks
Битрейт аудио: lossless
Продолжительность: 33:42
Источник (релизер): куплено камрадом Vesdaris на magnatune.com в виде лосслесс файлов (.cue и лог, естественно, отсутствуют)
Наличие сканов в содержимом раздачи: частично
Треклист:
01. Juke Joint Boogie (2:31)
02. Lay Down Your Plow (2:15)
03. My Momma Told Me (1:57)
04. Walkin At Midnight (2:34)
05. I'm Troubled (2:44)
06. Boogie In E (4:27)
07. Tumbleweed (2:08)
08. House Rockin (3:21)
09. Boogie In A (3:41)
10. Rollin And Tumblin' (2:21)
11. Slow Blues (2:50)
12. Pearline (2:53)

Jag - Pretty Girl Blues - 2004 (?) - Jagwerks
#777Жанр: Country Blues / Acoustic Solo Guitar Blues
Год издания диска: 2004 (?)
Издатель (лейбл): Jagwerks
Аудио кодек: FLAC (*.flac)
Тип рипа: tracks
Битрейт аудио: lossless
Продолжительность: 59:02
Источник (релизер): куплено камрадом Vesdaris на magnatune.com в виде лосслесс файлов (.cue и лог, естественно, отсутствуют)
Наличие сканов в содержимом раздачи: частично
Треклист:
01. House Party Rag (2:29)
02. Irish Jig (2:50)
03. Country Rag (2:49)
04. Her Lushishness (2:41)
05. John Henry (3:41)
06. Merry Go Round (2:38)
07. Ell Arroyo (3:16)
08. Down the Line (2:43)
09. Hoboin' (2:13)
10. MLK Rag (2:46)
11. Jag's Rag (2:39)
12. Hopscotch (2:12)
13. CindyLu (2:31)
14. Preachin' Blues (3:12)
15. Pretty Girl Blues (3:30)
16. The Waterfall (2:43)
17. Pretty Girl (2:48)
18. Red Cross Store (2:59)
19. Sittin' Under the Tree (2:30)
20. Train I Ride (4:17)
21. Jag's Jig (1:37)