Jimmy Bryant playing “Limehouse Blues”
Some of you didn’t get this post so I’m resending the listening link. Jimmy Bryant’s sound is a musical influence for Bill Frisell’s Not So Fast: The Music of Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant. Click on the link below to listen.
This song is a melody built on popular song form and showcases Bryant’s unique improvisational ability, not a blues as the title suggests.
Questions for discussion:
1) Have any of you ever listened to the blues before?
2) What is a blues?
3) How does blues music make you feel?
4) What does Jimmy Bryant’s Limehouse Blues sound like?
5) How does it make you feel?
There are four instruments playing: Lead guitar (electric), rhythm guitar (acoustic), acoustic bass, and what sounds like an accordion. Can you describe what each instrument is doing?
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Speedy West!
The Pages Program (Wexner Center for the Arts) 