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Nelson Checkoway
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Posted 7 Mar 2024 12:03 pm |
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My blues band, Blues on Sunday Quartet, has stellar core players who have recorded or toured with the likes of James Cotton, Ronnie Earl, Duke Robillard, Link Wray, Ronnie Hawkins, Debbie Davies, Mark Hummel, Kim Wilson, and countless other blues luminaries.
Generally, I play piano, organ, and guitar in this combo, but at last weekend’s show (with special guest Arthur Neilson from Shemekia Copeland‘s band) I surprised the band by adding some lap steel to the mix. The side stage sound on this clip isn’t the best but here’s a snippet from the date.
https://youtu.be/Gbo4FZLGfYs?si=F0zrWMA6T1BbZGcQ |
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Joe Burke
From:
Toronto, Canada
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Posted 7 Mar 2024 2:01 pm
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| Love it! Fit's in really nicely! |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Nelson Checkoway
From:
Massachusetts, USA
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Posted 7 Mar 2024 5:53 pm
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| Thanks Joe, Doug. It was fun indeed. Totally unexpected/untehearsed. I had some crackling from the amp or a cable about 2/3 of the way thru so I laid back until I doubled on the head at the end. I was playing my 8-string Emmons lap steel straight into my 1966 Princeton Reverb. |
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Miles Lang
From:
Venturaloha
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Posted 7 Mar 2024 7:09 pm
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Nicely done. Another win for the mighty Princeton amp!
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Jim Fogarty
From:
Phila, Pa, USA
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Posted 7 Mar 2024 10:42 pm
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| Well played, all around. Very lucky to have Per Hanson in the band.......no one plays that "flat tire" groove better! |
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Nelson Checkoway
From:
Massachusetts, USA
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Posted 8 Mar 2024 10:45 am
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Yes Miles — I’ve heard some call the black panel Princeton Reverb “ground zero for tone!” And yes, Jim, Per Hanson is the best in traditional electric blues drumming. Both he and Jon Ross, another core member of the band, were the rhythm section for James Corton in the early 2000s.
Per and I founded Blues on Sunday in 2022 as a Sunday afternoon residency at Cadenza. If you’re in the area, look for our quarterly weekend dates there and shows at other New England venues. Per and I are also going out as a piano/drums duo (and trio with an added guitar player). When we play out as the quartet I’ll be sure to bring my lap or console steel out more and more. Stay tuned! And thanks for listening.
(For more clips from us you can subscribe to our channel thru the track I posted in this thread or search in YouTube for @bluesonsunday3078 — also find us on Facebook and at our website www.bluesonsunday.com) |
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Jim Mckay
From:
New Zealand
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Posted 8 Mar 2024 11:48 am
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Great playing and a great band. 
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Tim Ports
From:
California, USA
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Posted 13 Mar 2024 6:09 pm T-Bone Shuffle
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| Sounds great! Do you mind sharing what tuning you are using? |
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Andy Volk
From:
Boston, MA
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Posted 14 Mar 2024 2:29 am
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Cool as heck to have a lap steel in that tune. Thanks for sharing.
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Nelson Checkoway
From:
Massachusetts, USA
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Posted 14 Mar 2024 8:57 am
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Thanks Jim, Tim, Andy! So much fun to put lap steel into older (40s-50s) horn and guitar based R&B, Andy--it does help give a guitar based combo a horn section feel, as we were doing on the head of the song.
Tim-the tuning was high C6: low to high A-C-E-G-A-C-E-G |
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