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Lap steel resonator guitar instrumentals - FRAMAT

Lap steel solo performances on my Fender FR50 Resonator guitar. The instrumentals are a mixture of german folksongs with some Country and Western and oldtime blues done in an original way on a Hawaiian slide guitar :-) Can't describe it better.
I hope you'll enjoy these short instrumentals.

BLUES CARTOONS

My tributes to some of my favorite bluesmusicians

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Bluespiano

Blues piano: from Boogie Woogie and Barrelhouse to Blues and Rhythm and Blues.
From Meade Lux Lewis and Whistling Alex Moore to Little Brother Montgomery, Blind John Davis and Amos Milburn and James Booker a.o..

Harmonica Rack players

Here you find harmonica rack players who are playing harmonica and at least one other instrument simultanously. There is Hannes Coetzee from Southafrica who plays Slideguitar with a spoon in his mouth using it like a bottleneck - I did not know where to put him so he ended up in that playlist.
You won't find Bob Dylan, Jimmy Reed or Donovan here but lesser known musicians who published their videos on youtube. BTW you'll find Jimmy Reed and Jesse Fuller in my playlist "Blues legends - solo or small groups performances".

Unknown Blues Legends

Every Bluesfan knows stars like BOBBY BLUE BLAND or JOHN LEE HOOKER or knows tunes like TEXAS FLOOD (made famous by Steve Ray Vaughn).
But who ever heard the original by LARRY DAVIS and knows the name of the leadguitarist of that classic (FENTON ROBINSON). Or who ever saw Bobby Blue Bland's long-time guitar-player WAYNE BENNETT live in action?
Do you ever heard of lap steel guitar masters SONNY RHODES and FREDDIE ROULETTE? And that relativ unknown EDDIE KIRKLAND was the second guitarist (who did backing vocals,too) on some of JOHN LEE HOOKER's classic recordings from the early 50's. You'll find many other great musicians here if you are interested in. Do you know the name Percy Mayfield? No? But you sure know at least one of his compositions: HIT THE ROAD JACK. Check it out!

Uploaded videos

Blues legends - solo or small group performances

Legendary Blues or R&B musicians performing solo to trio - mostly guitar- and harp-players. From Skip James and Josh White to J.B. Lenoir and Jimmy Reed & Co.

Jazz classics

great performances of the time when jazz was still alive 1920's to 60's

Muddy Waters' former sidemen

on piano: Otis Spann, Pinetop Perkins, Lovie Lee
on Harmonica: Little Walter, Walter Horton, Junior Wells, Carey Bell, James Cotton, Paul Oscher, Jerry Portnoy, Mojo Buford
on bass: Willie Dixon, Calvin Fuzz Jones
on drums: S.P. Leary, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith
on guitar: Jimmy Rogers, Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson, Bob Margolin

- on the James Cotton videos you can see & listen to the bassplaying of Charles Calmese who recorded with Muddy Waters in the late 70's. The Muddy Waters Band had two different members of the same name Luther Johnson: Luther "Snake boy" Johnson played with Muddy in the 60's and you can see him playing guitar on my playlist "Muddy in concert in the 60's" on "back at the chicken chack". Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson played with the Muddy Waters Band in the 70's.

C&W influenced guitar-players

Merle Travis, Chet Atkins, Hank Garland, Jerry Reed & Co. - mostly instrumentals

Europas Pop- und Chansonklassiker der 60er Jahre

Knef, Brel, Adamo, Udo Jürgens, Modugno, BB, Becaud, Celentano, Gainsbourg, Francoise Hardy & Co.