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Oct 12, 2017
Definitive Slide Guitar
I searched out this album after I read an interview with Ry Cooder who evidently revered Blind Willie Johnson as the king of slide guitar. This is a 2 CD set supposedly containing all his recorded works. The album is great but maybe a little flawed. The first seven or so songs on CD1 are really marvellous. Good blues songs with fantastic slide guitar and his distinctive singing. Hmm yes the singing. Blind Willie is capable of smooth and mellow tones but mostly relies on a strange artificial rasping grating noise that mostly reminds me of Popeye. But underneath is extraordinary slide playing. He plays great bluesey riffs but on top of that he echoes his singing with little throw away phrases and you can hardly wonder how he can think about three things at once. After the first few congs on CD1 and all the way through CD2 a female backing singer appears. As far as I am concerned she adds nothing except an annoying bleating sound in the background. The best old blues is one to one and the backing singer breaks that unique link to the listener. But if you can put up with her the songs are good.
Apr 22, 2020
Not Just For Violinists
These studies were written to help violinists but I am a guitarist and I bought my Kreutzer based on a recommendation from an online jazz guitar teacher. The studies are a bit like piano player's Czerny studies in that they are good for your fingers and your brain but only just verging on musical. But I am finding them invaluable for improving my sight reading. They are cleverly written such that at the beginning of a study the notes are repetitive enough for ease but then the pattern gradually evolves so that you have to concentrate more on the differences. The engraving of this manuscript is nice and clear and the pages are easy to read.
Jun 20, 2018
Very good but not quite great
1 of 1 found this helpful This performance doesn't deviate much from standard except that the style of playing is very precise and sort of nit picking-yery accurate and meticulous. That makes it sound fairly distinctive but it doesn't have the majesty and gravitas of, say, the Lindsay's or more the recently the Belcea's who have definitely have a special magic. Well recorded and played though.