New Blues
Virtuoso blues guitar playing on dobro or nylon acoustic [Camus is great example], Samuel James
complements this excellence with the most meandering storytelling – no so much
in the narrative line, though this can be complex and expansive – but in the
way it dictates variations in the pace and playing of the blues guitar, which
is finger-picked and slapped and strummed [all brilliantly] in tandem with the
shifts of the telling. His voice too ranges from spoken to crooned within these
evolutions in each song. There’s even the spoken comic poetry of The Execution of Big Black Ben, Parts 1
and 2. Superb.
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