Instruments slide and steel guitar slide guitar homespun. Take your playing to the next level with the help of a local or online resonator guitar teacher. Main artists list charts genres last added lyrics artistgroup. This usb powered midi keyboard gives you instant daw integration with directlink and comes. Anyway, this album is a natural followup to the excellent roll away the blues ratb, on rounder and like that album features the amazing singing and slide guitar of kelly joe phelps on several songs. Kelly joe phelps is a singer and guitarist with depth, range and amazing technique. Accompanied only by his brilliantly played slide acoustic, he helps expand appreciation of blues styles other than vintage mississippi delta and chicago electric varieties. Kelly joe phelps fans beginner to intermediate guitar players. It is the guitar that we can see on the video the slide guitar of kelly joe phelps. Roll away the stone licensed to youtube by wmg on behalf of ryko rhino. About ten seconds into the slide guitar of kelly joe phelps its clear that phelps is one of the cleanest, baddest, and most soulful slide players on the scene today. His powerful dobrolike lap slide technique is free, bluesy and original, and he outlines his approach to the instrument in a clear and comprehensive guitar lesson. Stream roll away the stone by kelly joe phelps and tens of millions of other songs on all your devices with amazon music unlimited. There is an undeniable truth about guitar instruction.
At this stage in his career kelly was playing slide on a lap steel guitar. Kelly joe plays with his guitar flat on his lap dobro style, picking, sliding and using his. His smoky voice and intricate, subtle guitar work infuse his songs with soul. Kelly joe phelps slide lesson the fingerstyle guitarist and singersongwriter demonstrates some of the slide guitar techniques that have reinvigorated his playing. Torrent file content va 2018 slide guitar blues flac 01 chuck e. David rawlings acoustic guitar, lap steel guitar 4 dade farrar bowed standup bass 6 john agnello electric guitar, percussion 7 lou winer saxophone 16 kelly joe phelps slide guitar. So, naturally, i was somewhat disheartened by his news. According to a post on facebook yesterday, the musician disappeared, alarming friends and fans concerned for his health and his whereabouts. Kelly joe phelps slide guitar lesson down to the praying. Hes not just an excellent guitarist and singer, but a songwriter of depth and complexity. On this page youll find all my free tabs pdfs the videos for these tabs are on the page free guitar tabvideos if you like the free tabs on this page, please consider.
Kelly joe phelps biography, albums, streaming links. This is the real deal phelps performs with the full authority and authenticity of the delta bluest tradition without ever once sounding like a folkways museum piece. The soulful guitar and yearning vocals of kelly joe phelps on tunesmith retrofit make this a good blues album to have. This lesson provides detailed instruction on his powerful slide guitar technique, and the arrangements that make his music so. When the roll is called up yonder 1997 theres scarcely a better acoustic slide player on the planet than kelly joe phelps, aptly demonstrated by this superb old hymn which appears on roll away the stone. Theres nothing more to it than the 34yearolds raspy, swampinfused vocals, lapstyle acoustic guitar played using fingerpicking and slide, and selfaccompanied stompbox percussion. Kelly joe phelps is an acoustic artist, but i find that some of his stuff transfers well to electric.
The older stuff was fingerstyle slide, then he went thru a lapstyle phase, now pretty much straight fingerstyle acoustic. Tony is an evocative and soulful singer, a wideranging songwriter and a virtuoso multiinstrumentalist adept on banjo, cellobanjo, slide guitar and baritone ukulele who mixes and matches sounds and styles with the flair of a master chef hes also an accomplished. With an alcm diploma he teaches all levels and ages via skype, as well as. Kelly joe phelps is taking some time away from the music industry. Its got a widerthannormal fingerboard, and its turned out to be a great. Kelly joe phelps born 5 october 1959, sumner, washington is an american musician and songwriter.
Loudon wainwright iii on older than my old man now, the singersongwriter casts an unflinching eye toward his own mortality. Artists take breaks for personal reasons all the time. Born in portland, oregon and raised in sumner, washington, phelps music listening always took in. When kelly joe phelps plays the guitar whether slide or finger picking what you hear is the sound of a musician who has indeed tapped into the artery. Released august 26, 1997 recorded 1996 genre blues, country blues label rykodisc. Im a beginner on the guitar, but not to music as a whole, so i understand what is going on musically. Heres a sample lesson from the slide guitar of kelly joe phelps techniques, arrangements and improvisation taught by kelly joe phelps. Monthly newsletter includes free lessons, favorite member content, resonator guitar news and more. Va slide guitar blues 2018 download movies games tvshows ufc wwe xbox360 ps3 wii pc from nitroflare rapidgator uploadgig. This group is dedicated to the weissenborn players around the world. The slide guitar of kelly joe phelps by dvd sheet music for. Take the music experience to the next level with our online music player.
Ideal for beginners, this book shows you how to play loads of wellknown songs that everyone knows, plus playing tips and instructions on tuning and chords. Kelly joe endorses this page, but does not personally interact. Piedmont style country blues guitar basics by valerie turner the. Kelly joe phelps tunesmith retrofit 2006 lyrics at the. His smoky voice and intricate, subtle guitar work infuse his songs with soul and honesty, his own tunes as effortlessly authentic as the classics he performs so well. Lately, i have played with several dc area ensembles, including the allacoustic swingrootsblues chesapeake sheiks, with marcus moore violin, ian walterspiano, matt kelly guitar and eric shramek. With over 30 traditional and pop songs specially arranged for the ukulele, including all along the. New album brother sinner and the whale available now at. He has chosen six of his most popular pieces to demonstrate how he builds fingerpicking arrangements and improvisations to communicate his unique musical vision. This lesson provides detailed instruction on his powerful slide guitar technique, and the arrangements that make his music so compelling. His music has been characterized as a mixture of delta blues and jazz. Find details of any artist or track and save your favorite tracks in our custom playlist. With practice, i am certain it wont be terribly long until i can emulate some of his techniques. For every song the student can download an accompanying mp3 file from writers.
People are teaching via skype, by video and by oldfashioned instructional books. Tommy sally ruby capman bootman river rat jimmy i am the light of this world and. With an alcm diploma he teaches all levels and ages via skype. Tunesmith retrofit album lyrics by kelly joe phelps. Many thought it to be among his finest albums, and others felt it was too far outside the pale of his previous work to embrace. Video lesson exploring kelly joe phelps slide work in. He learned country and folk songs, as well as drums and piano, from his father. New album slide guitar blues 2018 flac available for download on site. Playing with his guitar flat on his lap, kelly joe phelps uses his bar and alternatethumb fingerpicking to achieve a free, improvisational sound that defies easy categorization. In 2009, guitarist and songwriter kelly joe phelps pushed his own envelope with western bell, an allinstrumental, decidedly experimental record that has carved an iconoclastic niche in his catalog. While casual listeners may call phelps a bluesman, his playing is so fluid, dexterous, and improvised he obviously has the soul of a jazz musician. Kelly joe phelps grew up in sumner, washington, a bluecollar and farming town. Kelly joe phelps grew up in sumner, washington, a bluecollar farming town. Phelps concentrated on free jazz and took his cues from musicians.
Vancouver, washingtonbased guitarist, singer, and songwriter kelly joe phelps continues to expand the parameters of modern blues through his strong commitment to literary songs and his expressive yet simple guitar stylings. Shop and buy the slide guitar of kelly joe phelps sheet music. There arent many musicians who end up at acoustic blues based guitar after a decade immersed in free. Kelly joe phelps slide guitar lesson down to the praying ground. The maudio oxygen 49 is created for musicians and producers, featuring a host of controls, an intuitive layout, and a cuttingedge software suite for making music. Slingshot professionals by kelly joe phelps, released in 2003 on skylight music. Chords for kelly joe phelps spit me outta the whale.
His impeccable timing and intonation should be an inspiration to slide players everywhere. Valerie was a former student of john cephas and she is one of the fast emerging women in the genre. I first encountered him more than two decades ago now at the tiny 12 bar club in londons equivalent of tin pan alley, denmark street. I have been playing kelly joe s music on my radio show for sometime now. So the instructions and demonstrations are very accomodating. Its just part of the enigma that is kelly joe phelps, supremely talented slide and fingerstyle player, gifted vocalist and assured songwriter who marks his 20th year as a solo recording artist in 2014. I had the good fortune of seeing tony and his trio band at a dive bar in albuquerque around the time this album came out. Unravel the playing secrets of this true guitar genius folkblues.