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Rattlebrained

washboards, rhythm bones, drumming & the blues...

24 May 2010
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Swamp Train Ties For 3rd!

at the Blues Club FribourgThe contest started earlier than announced on the poster, irritating since G. was coming with his girlfriend and hadn’t arrived yet and wasn’t the only one. But Bonny B. had someone pull paper slips from his hand for the starting order so we were ready to roll and guess who was first in line…

There are advantages in playing first, the obvious one being you’re the leading reference the jury gets so if you do good, all the better. Especially when, as it was the case here, the jury had 5 criteria to judge by putting notes from 0 to 10. Stage presence, originality, sound, energy and nuance. I didn’t look at the scores so don’t really know but I can imagine we did well on sound and energy and possibly originality although that’s kind of a far fetched notion in today’s blues… I would have preferred: Fun!

Either way it’s all pretty subjective and depends on what music you like to hear. As this blog’s regulars have certainly already figured out my heart goes to acoustic, roots, country, folk, ragtime, good time & lonesome blues and if it has to be electric: I need energy, lots of it!…

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19 May 2010
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Swamp Train's First Venue

Before continuing with the museum night story I wanted to announce the first public venue of Swamp Train, the group formed this last winter with friends Blaise, Dominik..

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25 April 2010
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Last Of The Snow & Going Ons

Almost summer weather today so I walked north west, up and out of town, just over the crest were one can look over to France’s Franch-Compté region. I like it better than the view of the Alps that you see if you go up the opposite way. Less dramatic, an invitation to walk with your mind across the hills.

On the way up I saw a small white butterfly, probably the first Ive seen up here since spring comes a month later than down in the Plain (which is what they call the central area of Switzerland that is not the Alps or the Jura). Nice to get some air after three days of facing the dust that had accumulated in my studio over the winter.

Tuesday I practiced with Dave, the two of us will be playing locally…

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24 February 2010
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Dave in New Zealand (Again)

If you happen to be in Auckland why not check out our favorite Crawfish Blues Band band leader who will be giving a few concerts here and there. Two are mentioned in this flier and there are more to come.

Meanwhile while the cat travels the mice play…

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