by Rick Hart | Feb 25, 2019 | For Muisicans Only, Musings
I sometimes wonder why I like a particular blues guitarist. I wish I could pin it down to just one thing… but it’s about many things. But I think I’ve narrowed it down to three factors I call the Three T’s. It’s the tone, the taste and...
by Rick Hart | Jan 20, 2019 | For Muisicans Only, Music History
So here’s this sharecropper in Mississippi working for not a lot of money. There are no guitar stores in Clarkdale in 1920. So just where did Robert Johnson, Son House, Muddy Waters, and Charley Patton get their guitars? From a Sears catalog, that’s where....
by Rick Hart | Jan 7, 2019 | For Muisicans Only
Did you ever stop to think what makes music move us. How music communicates? What makes it create emotion in us? In other words, what is the psychology at play in music? As a musician for over 40 years, and having listened to a lot of music, particularly the blues, I...
