The Mojo Bag Episode 1 / music instruction lessons tutorials information theory

[TheBronson13]

Love that shirt!! Red is a great man!

[KeniLeeBurgess]

@TheBronson13 Thank you for your comment. Unfortunately, I have never been there myself. Hopefully some day. Enjoy.

[TheBronson13]

It's one of the greatest places in Clarksdale...we played there a couple weeks back...was a wonderful time

[KeniLeeBurgess]

@TheBronson13 I saw my friend's vacation video. Inside the juke joints and all the street performers. Definitely looks like a place for a good old time. Thank you for your response. Enjoy.

[gayouj]

Great stuff, man. I don't really have anyone around home to talk this kind of music history with so I usually just come around to your channel for my fix. Thanks!

[KeniLeeBurgess]

Thank you. If you have any suggestions for future topics, please write me a few lines to help spark my imagination. Enjoy.

[kokoro86]

I've been unable to find an unwound string thicker than 22 Gauge locally. I have to rebuild my bridge(Filing one outta bone), but when I do, I'll see if I can dig it up and post something.

[KeniLeeBurgess]

I think a .22 gauge plain steel string definately should do it. Yes, please tell me how it works out and if you can notice a significant difference in the tone. Enjoy.

[philicheez]

Thank you. It's nice to hear you talk about something you (and myself included) apparently are so passionate about. Both informational and interesting. I kinda feel bad because I can't offer you a beer as I listen! Future ideas? Your format of covering instrument history and player history is good. Maybe some history of the genre like how the blues moved around and evolved into its particular sub-genres would be nice. The science bit was nice too!

[KeniLeeBurgess]

Thank you for your comments, suggestion, and your offer of a beer. LOL. Blues developed in various areas of America. I mainly play in the Delta style that came from the cradle of the Mississippi Delta. I certainly will be exploring some of it's rich history. Thanks again. Enjoy.

[mizzissippiblues]

very enjoyable and informative vid .Looking forward to more in this series.

[KeniLeeBurgess]

Thank you for your comment. Enjoy.

[johnmcnair]

and that Brazilian thing was way cool!

[KeniLeeBurgess]

Thank you for your comment. You can find videos here on youtube for Capoeria and the Berimbau. Enjoy.

[johnmcnair]

Hi , I am from New Orleans , I can personally trestify that Its called a Gri Gri bag!

[KeniLeeBurgess]

Yes, you are correct. A Mojo is a charm or spell. The usage here is referring to "a Bag of Tricks". Enjoy.

[ZEDZOR2]

Yeh this is a good idea Keni Lee.A type of open discusion.All power to you.

[KeniLeeBurgess]

Thank you. Enjoy.

[bigfrank1961]

Hi Kenni, Very interesting....I will look foward to the next one.

[KeniLeeBurgess]

Thank you Big Frank. Good to hear from you. How are are those golden pipes of yours? Hope all is well.

[KeniLeeBurgess]

Thank you for your comments. Yes, it is true that living in the present time we cannot truely appreciate the oppressive situation economically and socially that the blues masters experienced. My grandfather was of the same time. He was very utilatarian, conservative and frugal. He was my living influence. He appears as a young man on the cover of my CD, Good & Evil. If you watch the old footage of Son House you get an education about the Blues.

[KeniLeeBurgess]

Even he spoke out about jump music songs being named Blues this and Blues that. I do not claim to be a blues master. My approach is not to imitate. There was a time in my life I tried to play their songs closer, note to note. For myself, I realized this was not the path. Once I started to understand music and apply it in my own way, I felt enpowered. When I perform, even though I am covering songs, they are mine. They come from my understanding. My last point is, that music is entertainment.

[KeniLeeBurgess]

We don't always want a sweet sappy story...sometimes we want to cry...be angry...left alone...I rather not get into it, but playing the guitar and losing myself in it, saved my life, back when life was not worth living.

[2blindboyblue]

Firstly, great idea for a series of vids and can't wait for more. Good job.

Secondly, I agree with your above coment. Perhaps this would be a good idea for a "mojo bag" vid. Covers done different players in their own individual ways. It seems to me that it's almost like a right of passage when you play the blues. Learning some of the standards and adding a little of your own flavour. While I respect musicians who can replicate songs note for note, for me it demonstrates a lack of creativity.

[KeniLeeBurgess]

Thank you for your comment. Yes, I agree. I greatly appreciate players who can reproduce songs from musicians like Robert Johnson. Actually, it is very educational. I learn things that I could not figure out. But accurate reproduction is not the full extent of art. It is also about creativity and self-expression.

[KeniLeeBurgess]

Steve James who spent time touring with Fury Lewis, stated, that if you asked Fury how he played one of his songs, he would say, get your own song. Son House and Willie Brown treated RJ the same way. RJ was fortune enough to meet Ike Zimmerman (or the Devil if you want to believe that story) who showed him the ropes. I personally feel that I cannot express myself fully if I am worried about playing a song the same way ever time. This stuff is not written in stone.

[MrMudneck]

oh and my point for making these series of comments is that I can play roberts music because of his hal leonard songbook and there are about 9 or 10 tunings. and well I fear without having never known robert personally i cant really elaborate any further. nope. cos i cant argue that he wasnt so good as to be able to do what people claim, that he play his repitiore in all tunings and whatnot with tuning only a couple strings. a tuning that maybe the devil hadnt told him about.

[MrMudneck]

(cloud of grief)**

looming over the country and true there were joyful moments the overall attitude of bluesmen, from what ive seen, is that they were not feeling togetherness because of the music but because of depression and opression. thats one thing that people always overlook when they get into the blues is that they feel different than a man or woman from the time of blues. just one little contention of mine. maybe ill get over to wherever you live and have this talk in person.

[MrMudneck]

very helpful, and well, as I like a historical mystery a lot, i dont think there is much to robert johnson's playing other than the fact that he was walking while he was practicing his style while he was not neccesarily writing his songs or recording them on the move that was were his style was from. and a vital point of his ability is that for one there was no sixties movement, people were not happy and shiny and full of peacefull love. There was a cloud of rief constantly looming over........