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A Duke Robillard Masterclass – Blues for T-Bone

August 1, 2015 By GuitarDaddy

I like a lot of different styles of (guitar) music.

It’s been said that you can scroll through a friend’s MP3 player for a candid look into their musical soul. Scan mine and you will find Classic Rock, Smooth Jazz, Contemporary Christian, New Age, R&B and an eclectic variety of tunes that fall into several other genres. But without a doubt, there is nothing I love to listen to more than a slow BLUES SOLO.

Duke Robillard

I can listen to slow blues guitar for hours. I love to “feel” a song when I am playing and I feel slow blues all the way into my core.

One of the best examples of this is Duke Robillard’s “Blues for T-Bone” strat solo. Robillard calls this “Duke’s Mood” and how powerful and moody it is!

It’s 7-1/2 minutes of slow blues heaven.


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Filed Under: Video Tagged With: Blues, Duke Robillard, Great Guitarists

Jimmy Witherspoon and Duke Robillard Play the Slow Blues

September 18, 2010 By GuitarDaddy

Jimmy Witherspoon & Duke Robillard

I love the Blues.

I really love Slow Blues.

I know, it’s simple and basic and all of the shredders can play twenty notes for every single note in a slow blues song.

But the slow blues moves me. It moves me like no other music. Ronnie Earl, Eric Clapton, The Allman Brothers, B.B. King, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Duke Robillard and so many many others made careers out of mastering the slow blues.

13 years ago today, September 18, 1997, we lost Jimmy Witherspoon. He was 77.

Jimmy was not a guitar player. He was a singer. A blues singer. And in this case, a slow blues singer.

This recording is Jimmy Witherspoon’s last before he passed away, leaving behind a long legacy of great blues recordings. Jimmy died of throat cancer, which is evident in this recording as his voice is quite weak.

Enjoy this soulful rendition of “Going Down Slow” with Duke Robillard providing backup on guitar.

[Listen to “Goin’ Down Slow”]

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