Gary Clark Jr. - Bright Lights photo

Gary Clark Jr. – Bright Lights

Gary Clark Jr. (né en 1984) est un guitariste de blues américain qui vit à Austin, Texas. Il est également considéré comme le futur du Texas blues.

En voici un petit aperçu avec Bright Lights :

Ses influences regroupent le blues, le jazz, la soul, la country et le hip hop. Et apparemment, il aime le son fuzzy et une manière de chanter plutôt smooth.

Cracker - Low  photo

Cracker – Low

Here’s Low by Cracker (off the album Kerosene Hat), a song that I played over and over when I was at college.

It used to be my driving song: I’d pop that CD in, turn the volume up and drive the night away with no particular destination.

In that sense, I often identify with Nick Carraway, the character who narrates The Great Gatsby.

Tuning:Standard

Guitar 1 - Simple chord riff, D, then C, then E5, then G in the following pattern.  
the verse it is an acoustic guitar and then switches to the same as guitar 2, an electric distorted.

   v   v^v   vv  v   v^v    vv
e|-2---222------------------33----------------------------------------------|
B|-3---333---11-------------33----------------------------------------------|
G|-2---222------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-----------22---2---222---------------------------------------------------|
A|-----------33---2---222---22----------------------------------------------|
E|----------------0---000---33----------------------------------------------|

Guitar 2 has two parts, the first is played at the intro and chorus:

e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-44554h5-55454554h5--88----------------------------------------------------|
G|-44444---44444444----44----------------------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|

The second is played during the verse, and sounds mostly clean:

e|--11b12--------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|9--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|

Then the solo, with distortion
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|--9b--9--9-----------------------------------------------------------12----|
A|--12b-10-10----------------10---1010101010-10-10---------10h10-12s14---14--|
E|------------10-12-12-10h12---12-1514141210-10-10h12-10h12------------------|

e|------------------------------------------|
B|-----11-12-11-----------------------------|
G|---14---------12--1414-1212-1414-1414-14--|
D|------------------------------------------|
A|------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------|

Lyrics
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Sometimes I wanna take you down
Sometimes I wanna get you low
Brush your hair back from your eyes
Take you down let the river flow

Sometimes i go and walk the streets
behind a green sheet of glass
A million miles below the streets
A million miles, a million miles

D          C        E          G
Being with you girl like being low
hey hey hey like being stoned
Being with you girl like being low
hey hey hey like being stoned

A million poppies gonna make me sleep
But just one rose that knows your name
The fruit is rusting on the vine
The fruit is calling from the trees

Hey hey dont you wanna go down
Like some disgraced cosmonaut
A million miles below the streets
A million miles a million miles

(chorus)

(solo)

Blue blue is the sun 
Brown brown is the sky 
Green green are her eyes 
A million miles a million miles 
Hey hey don't you wanna go down 
Like some displaced cosmonaut 
A million miles below the streets 
A million miles a million miles 

(chorus) 
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We are all drifters.

More : Cracker.

ZZ Ward - Put the Gun Down (live @ SXSW 2012) photo

ZZ Ward – Put the Gun Down (live @ SXSW 2012)

ZZ Ward est une chanteuse et guitariste américaine qui joue avec Ryan Tedder, Pete Rock, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, et Fitz du groupe Fitz and the Tantrums.

En mai 2012, elle sort son premier EP intitulé Criminal qui contient les chansons “Til the Casket Drops” (utilisé dans les trailers pour la série Pretty Little Liars), “Put the Gun Down”, “Move Like U Stole It”, et “Criminal” (feat. Freddie Gibbs).

Voici donc ZZ Ward qui joue le morceau “Put The Gun Down” au SXSW 2012 au Gibson Guitar Showroom d’Austin, TX :

Sympa, ce petit côté pop/rock/bluesy. Le groupe a l’air pas mal non plus!

Vous pouvez télécharger quelques chansons de l’EP et une mixtape depuis son site. Le premier album sortira le 16 octobre 2012.

Scott Henderson feat. Thelma Houston - Tore Down House photo

Scott Henderson, Thelma Houston – Tore Down House

Scott Henderson est un guitariste de blues et de jazz-fusion qui vient de Palm Beach (Floride) et qui enseigne au Guitar Institute of Technology à Hollywood.

Thelma Houston est une chanteuse née dans l’état du Mississippi, qui a été numéro 1 des charts en 1977 avec sa reprise de la chanson Don’t Leave Me This Way, avec laquelle elle a gagné le Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance en 1978.

Et la somme des deux, nous donne Tore Down House :

They tore down my old house baby
Ain’t nothin’, nothin’ but a patch of land
They tore down my old house baby
Ain’t nothin’, nothin’ but a patch of land

And you know all that’s left baby
Is some letters in the mailbox
Lying in the sand

Gotta change o’ address baby
Long and far away
Gotta change o’ address baby
Long and so far away

Well you know I had to leave you
No matter what the cost
Darlin’, everything I knew and loved was lost

Lire la suite

Black Minou - Voodoo Love (Live)  photo

Black Minou – Voodoo Love (Live)

Trouvé via le profil facebook de mon pote Olivier, voici Black Minou, un groupe créé par Stanislas Poupaud (aka Yarol), qui jouait il y a quelques années dans le groupe FFF.

Multi-instrumentiste et guitariste de talent, il est accompagné de son frère Melvil.

Voici une de leur composition originale, Voodoo Love, enregistrée lors de leur concert au bus Palladium.

Sympa non ?

C2C - Down The Road photo

C2C – Down The Road

Aujourd’hui, on parle d’electro et plus particulièrement de la scène nantaise. Je vous avais parlé de Madeon il y a quelques mois, voici C2C (anciennement Coups 2 Cross), groupe français de quatre DJ composé de 20Syl et Greem d’Hocus Pocus ainsi que d’Atom et Pfel de Beat Torrent, tous originaires de Nantes.

Down The Road est le titre éponyme de leur album qui sortira cet automne :

Vous l’avez très certainement déjà entendu à la radio ou à la télévision, j’ai vu l’autre jour qu’une émission s’en servait comme jingle.

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Duane Allman - Goin' Down Slow photo

Duane Allman – Goin’ Down Slow

Duane Allman (né Howard Duane Allman; November 20, 1946 – October 29, 1971) était un guitariste américain, guitariste studio, co-fondateur et leader du groupe The Allman Brothers Band, jusqu’à sa mort prématurée dans un accident de moto en 1971, à l’âge de 24 ans.

Voici Goin’ Down Slow :

Les guitaristes doués partent jeunes quand même.

Joe Bonamassa - Driving Towards The Daylight photo

Joe Bonamassa – Driving Towards The Daylight

Joe Bonamassa, toujours aussi prolifique, sort son nouvel album Driving Towards The Daylight chez Mascot Records le 21 mai 2012, dont voici le titre éponyme :

Produit par Kevin Shirley, Driving Towards The Daylight s’accompagne d’une pléthore de musiciens : le guitariste d’Aerosmith Brad Whitford (guitare) et son fils Harrison Whitford (guitare), Blondie Chaplin (guitare), Anton Fig (drums, percussions), Arlan Schierbaum (keyboards), Michael Rhodes (basse), Carmine Rojas (basse), Jeff Bova and The Bovaland Brass et Pat Thrall (guitare).

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The Shivers - Beauty photo

The Shivers – Beauty

Je suis tombé amoureux de la chanson Beauty du groupe new-yorkais The Shivers :

Capo Second Fret

Standard Tuning EADGBE

Chords
D : 000232
Bm :  224432 
G : 320033 
C :  332010 
Em : 022000 
Am : 002210
G7 : 320001

After you play the Em, walk the the bass line to the G chord. 
Pluck open E string then second fret E string, then third fret E string into the G chord.

G      
I live off love
Am
I feed off love
Em
I breathe off love
G
I think of love
Am
I drink of love
Em
I sink in love
G                              Am                       Em
and in the middle of the night I need my love
G                               Am                      Em
I need to grieve and need to need and be in love
C
my love is gonna come to me
G          Am           Em
tonight

i give my love and all my love to you, my love
i feast on love, a beast for love, release my love
you're scared and unprepared for love, don't care my love
cause youre the only woman i've been dreaming of

C                                              G                   G7    
i swear to god i'm loving you for that
i swear to god i'm making you my wife

Bm                           C
and if you ever leave me
i never will be sore
i'll love you 'til you're lonely
Bm                                              C            D     
then i'll love you some more just before
Am
ohh..

G                Am                         Em                              
beauty beauty beauty, there's nobody near me,
C
there never was
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Gregg Allman, Dickey Betts et Dan Toler : studio jam (1982) photo

Gregg Allman, Dickey Betts et Dan Toler : studio jam (1982)

Voici une session acoustique de Gregg Allman, Dickey Betts et Dan Toler, qui formaient le Allman Brothers Band en 1982 :

Gregg joue une version instrumentale de “Melissa” avant d’entamer “Come and Go Blues”.

“Sorry guys, technical problem, take 5 minutes“. No problem !

Rory Gallagher - As The Crow Flies (Live) photo

Rory Gallagher – As The Crow Flies (Live)

Voilà un bonhomme que j’aurais bien aimé voir en concert.

Rory rocks.

Paroles : “As The Crow Flies” (originally by Tony Joe White)

As the crow flies, baby
Will I ain’t so far from you
As the crow flies, baby
Will I ain’t so far from you
But since I don’t have wings
I can’t get home as fast as I want to
As the crow flies, baby
Will I ain’t so far from you
As the crow flies, baby
Will I ain’t so far from you
But since I don’t have wings
I can’t get home as fast as I want to
In a dream last night
Where I heard you call my name
In a dream last night
Where I heard you call my name

Well, I took it as an omen
And I jumped on the very first weight train
Yeah, as the crow flies
Well, you don’t know baby
How I miss you sweet caress
Well, you don’t know baby
How I miss you sweet caress
When I’m in your lovin’ arms
I swear I make my very best
As the crow flies, baby
That’s how I’m on my way
As the crow flies, baby
I’m on my way
But don’t stop runnin’
I can get home for the break of day
Get home for the break of day
Get home for the break of day
Get home for the break of day
Get home for the break of day
Get home for the break of day
Get home for the break of day
Get home for the break of day

Et pour les gratteux, la tablature de As The Crow Flies est disponible sur la page de Rory Gallagher.