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Mark Lettieri is one of the guitarist in Snarky Puppy, but he has cool solo stuff. He started messing around with baritone electric guitars for the fun of it and it turned into an album:


This is from Snarky Puppy's "We like it hear". It's called " What about me." Another one called " Lingus " is very popular.
 

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Mark Lettieri is one of the guitarist in Snarky Puppy, but he has cool solo stuff. He started messing around with baritone electric guitars for the fun of it and it turned into an album:

This is from Snarky Puppy's "We like it hear". It's called " What about me." Another one called " Lingus " is very popular.

Cool.

Snarky - cool funk fusion.

You might enjoy meeting its grand daddy. As with old family photos, the people will look a little strange - there are resemblances but the hair and the clothes are odd and the synths sound ever so cheesy.





An example of Collective Soul:

Oh! I do know them now. I just didn't know that I knew them. I totally crank this tune when it comes on the car radio.
 
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Alexandr Misko – Young Russian

Quick practised hand and ear together with expen$ive (probably) planetary gear banjo peg tuners and an extremely well-crafted nut (probably with some lubricant) – tapping – harp harmonics - a chopstick?

(Home studio)



(and just to show he can do it live)



 

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I didn't know Larry Coryell did funky stuff.

In the continued spirit of old can be new or inform the new, how about some Herbie and the Head Hunters?

 

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I didn't know Larry Coryell did funky stuff.

How about Miles and a very funky John McLaughin who is putting the out of phase setting on his rented Fender Mustang to good use.

This is old, old, old but it still has arms and legs everywhere outside the funk fusion envelope.

 

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I didn't know Larry Coryell did funky stuff.

Or if you want to explore the fringes of funk fusion, there is Ronald Shannon Jackson and the Decoding Society with (brunin’)Vernon Reid – they try really hard to put the harm back in Ornette’s harmolodics.

If we compare funk fusion to cheese in general, Ronald and the lads are the Gorgonzola, Stilton, and Rocquefort - certainly not to everyone's palate.




 

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New discovery for me today ...

Laura Marling from the UK

 

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Jon Gom from the UK. Would seem to be the object of young Alexandr Misko's hero worship.

 

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An indigenous friend sends me stuff.






 

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I'm not much into the percusive guitar stuff. It's wild to watch, but it's not something I would play a handful in a row.

My instructor has us play Chameleon in our recitals. It's fun to improvise over.

The Miles tune and the Jackson stuff are too far out for me. I couldn't begin to think, " That's cool, I bet I could solo over that for practice. "

Lara Marling reminds me of Anne Wilson's voice. Funny she's obviously from the UK when she talks, but not at all when she sings. I like her stuff.

Jon's stuff is , of course, a lot like the other percussive stuff. Amazing to watch, but ear fatigue sets in quickly. For me, anyway.

The Native American stuff was really interesting. Blending traditional chant and dance with a back beat. I tend to not be into anything by anyone self named " DJ - " anything. Just on general principals. If they didn't have other peoples creations to begin with, what would they do?
 

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We first heard this band on a streamed charity concert, just the 2 main guys: singer rhythm guitar and lead guitar. Then we got the record version on a compilation cd we got in the mail for supporting a local public radio station. About a week ago they killed it on the Grammys.

Black Pumas

 

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I forgot about Michaela Anne until she came up on my music thumb drive in my car this morning. This is what I posted in the Female Artists thread earlier this year:

I recently picked up several Michaela Anne CD's that are in heavy rotation in the car. I'm a sucker for Nashville singer-songwriters, and she's a good one.


 

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My curiosity about WWI led to my recent discovery of the brilliant English composer, George Butterworth - completely new to me.

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He was a friend and colleague of Cecil Sharp, the English folklorist-musicologist and contributed to Sharp’s work by collecting folk songs and dances on his own. Without Sharp and his colleagues, we would have had very different versions of Annie Briggs, Bert Jansch, Pentangle, Fairport Convention, Sandy Denny, Richard Thompson, etc. It is likely that many traditional songs would have been lost.

Butterworth was was killed on the Somme in 1916 at the age of 31.

Had he lived, he probably would have eclipsed his friend Ralph Vaughn Williams or at least would have been as much a name as him. Butterworth has a lovely feeling for folk tunes, and his work, very much of its time, is so very, very English. He can make Vaughn Williams' treatment of folk melodies seem rather ham-fisted in comparison.

Anyway, Butterworth has been experiencing a bit of revival after the 2018 centenary of the WWI armistice, and I have been listening to a lot of him recently - well not really a lot because he did not live long enough to compose a lot - so let's say listening to him frequently.

As a composer:








As a collector of folk dances and performer in a Morris dancing group:




"Four of the Demonstration Team [in the link above] - George Wilkinson, Perceval Lucas, Reginald Tiddy, and George Butterworth died on the Somme in July, August and September 1916."

 

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I'm not much into the percusive guitar stuff. It's wild to watch, but it's not something I would play a handful in a row.

Jon's stuff is , of course, a lot like the other percussive stuff. Amazing to watch, but ear fatigue sets in quickly. For me, anyway.

Pretty much similar to my feelings. The ear fatigue is, I think, the result of modal playing in open tunings. It is fun to be free from the constraints of harmony - there is a timeless peacefulness to it in the resonance of open strings, as with say Indian music, but in large doses it is a bit sleep-inducing.

Harry Manx is a wonderful slide player (using a Mohan Veena and guitars) and is a great live performer. I have seen him a number of times, but I always struggle to stay awake. Same issues.

 

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funky stuff.

Digging down into Funk-Fusion DNA, how about some Cannonball Adderly and Joe Zawinul?

You can already hear Joe incorporating R&B funky influences into his increasingly pared down keyboard style.

Mercy, Mercy, Mercy




Country Preacher




Walk Tall




Joe gets funkier with Weather Report





 

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I tend to not be into anything by anyone self named " DJ - " anything. Just on general principals. If they didn't have other peoples creations to begin with, what would they do?

;) Dunno. Write Stairway to Heaven, Dazed and Confused, White Summer/Black Mountainside, etc? Write an 8 or 12 bar composition with a I, IV, V progression?

I suppose there is a philosophical question about what the foundational building blocks of music are.

There is a long and honourable or dishonourable, depending on your view point, of stealing or taking inspiration from the work of others.

Bach lifted and rearranged Vivaldi because he loved him. And on and on we go. ;)

I used to think exactly the same as you.

My daughter and Stewart Copeland (not claiming or suggesting any personal acquaintance with Copeland) convinced me otherwise.
 
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