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"Ocean of Blues"
The Tunes:
1.Statesboro Blues
10. Cakewalk Into Town
2.Linin’ Track
11. Driftin’ Blues
3.Well, Well, Well
12. How Long Blues
4.The Sky Is Crying
13. Need Your Love So Bad
5.Hesitation Blues
14. Boogie Chillun
6.Little Red Rooster
15. Before You Accuse Me
7.One Kind Favor
16. The Thrill Is Gone
8.Big Road Blues
17. Hoochie Coochie Man
9.Walkin’ Blues
18. Dust My Broom
"Sharp Shooter Blues"
The Tunes:
1. Walkin Blues
7. Sportin’ Life Blues
2. Light Rain
8. Big Mama’s Door
3. Sharp Shooter Blues
9. NYC Blues
4. Boats Up The River
10. Fishin’ Blues
5. Honey Bee
11. Mississippi Blues
6. Carousel Rag
12. 61 Highway
Lay Down My Old Guitar--A Tribute To John Jackson
1. Lay Down My Old Guitar - Orville Johnson
10. West Coast Blues - Mary Flower
2. Too Tight Rag - Pat Donohue
11. Goin' Down To Georgia On A Horn - W.B. Reid
3. Mississippi Blues - Roy Book Binder
12. Georgia Bound - Mick Knight
4. Midnight Hour Blues - Ann Rabson
13. Come On Over To My House - Lauren Sheehan
5. Red River Blues - Thomas David Corlett
14. Bootlegger's Blues - Ragtime Rick Blaufeld
6. Don't Let Your Deal Go Down - Terry Robb
15. Boats Up The River - Thom Davis
7. So Sweet - Cephas & Wiggins
16. John Henry - Corey Harris
8. That Will Never Happen No More - Ari Eisinger
17. Just Because - Saffire, The Uppity Blues Women
9. When You Left - John Miller
THE FRONT PORCH - foot operated percussion device
There are many venues where the stage is carpeted which dampens the sound of your foot tapping. When performing, your foot tapping sound is another instrument to enhance your performance. The Front Porch solves that problem and enables your foot to be heard as if you were tapping your foot to the beat of your music while on the front porch of the old shack. In addition, it serves as a metronomic aid and footstool.The spring-loaded top helps keep you leg from tiring and getting shin splints. It can be miked or used unplugged. I use one at every performance.
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Michael Baytop using The Front Porch
DIDDLEY BOWS
The one stringed instrument known in the South as the Diddley Bow was one of the first stringed instruments used in Blues. I build them out of high-end cigar boxes and small tambourines adding ebony and bone bridges, bone nuts, modern tuning machines and "F" holes. They create an authentic old-time blues sound when used with a slide. As you can see, no two are the same.
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