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Blues for Annie
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Genre
Blues • Blues General
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Peak #34
Peak in subgenre #13
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May 28, 2006
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MP3 2.0 MB • 128 kbps • 2:09
Story behind the song
A slow blues, motivated by researching my family history. In 1889 the 3 year old child (Annie Vasco) of my g-grandfather was knocked down and killed by a 'tram'. She died before reaching hospital, and because the family was so poor at the time, she was buried in an unmarked public grave.
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XRAY's Cowbell by Misadventure
Nov 05, 2011
very soulful playing beautiful tone deft balance between the two guitars use of half–steps very effective in adding melancholia rhythm guitar strong sense of swing and movement without being heavy-handed below, a few of my favorite licks: 0:36/37" 0:58/59" 1:44/46" lovely, tender ending letting the last note ring/fade out without adding any vibrato to it impressive
Tom Burch
May 04, 2011
Absolutely beautiful, John.
MJBerg
Nov 19, 2009
Lovely blues, John. Very sensitively played, nice guitar tones:). Cheers, Mauri.
Maria Daines
Nov 22, 2007
Such a sad story that inspired this beautiful song, I think the blues has to be felt deeply before it can come out and hit us in the heart like this, then it's pure magic but most blues has been lived hard before it flies like a butterfly into the soul, captured forever.