I’m still playing my little parlor guitar most evenings, sometimes just for a few minutes, but enough anyway so that my callouses don’t disappear. I think it is so amazing (and ironic) how playing the blues can make me so happy. It totally has this power.

Here is a wonderful video of Stefan Grossman, my [...]

It’s been a year since I got the crazy idea to learn how to play the guitar.  I can NOT believe it has been that long.  Here is my first guitar post back in June 2010 when I had just bought my guitar (well, my first guitar, I keep meaning to sell it, it’s [...]

These people are A-MAZING. If I smoked I would have had to have a cig after watching. Stay for the head banging percussion ending. How can they play and dance like that at the same time?

I think I just burst into flames.

Welp, my second month of guitar playing has passed.  I finished all the ‘beginner’ lessons, all 150 of them over at nextlevelguitar, and can do major barre chords off the sixth string and minors off the fifth string, but forget the reverse of that, or 7th, or anything fancy.  But as I build up my [...]

I was driving to the mailbox today—what, you don’t drive to mailbox?  We’re rural, okay?  It’s like, a quarter mile at least to ours.  And you try getting your four year old to walk that far when he would SOOOO rather sit on your lap and ‘drive’—anyhow, I was driving to the mailbox today, when [...]