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Anyone out there familiar with Pierre Ben Susan, fabulous

by Ziks511 Apr 18, 2005 9:43AM PDT

French acoustic guitarist. Saw him last night at the local venue, Hugh's Room, which has hosted numerous folk blues jazz contemporary artists.

Line from the inter-song patter, "You understand French? I know you don't like to, but you do understand."

Superb music and a number of old friends to re-connect with, most pleasant.

Rob Boyter

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Well, I had to go to Amazon's
by Steven Haninger Apr 18, 2005 11:37AM PDT

site to listen to a few clips. The spelling's a bit different from what you posted. He does sound quite decent and I recognize a few of the celtic and breton tunes from my own collections. Someday I plan to learn to play an instrument. Otherwise we just have a few wall hangings waiting to be tuned and played.Happy This weekend I have tickets to a performance by Alison Krauss & Union Station. I'll be dragging the whole family and my daughter's college roomie. It will be just for fun and a good time. My wife is a Jerry Douglas fan and my daughter hopes, someday, to learn to play the mandolin she got for Christmas. It looks like Pierre won't be in my neighborhood anytime soon perhaps one of his albums might find it's way into a gift collection. Thanks for posting these things.

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I envy you your evening with Alison, she's just wonderful.
by Ziks511 Apr 19, 2005 6:36AM PDT

Now that we're getting close to solvent again after the peregrinations of the last 10 years I'm looking forward to seeing music again.

Rob

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see what you can find by davy graham
by jonah jones Apr 19, 2005 12:30AM PDT

60's folk singer/guitarist, really advanced in his concepts...

he was using middle-east/north african motifs in some of his music before the term "world music" was thought of...

album to look for "folk, blues and beyond" and a piece called "Angie" is superb!!...

and Steve G... if god is a female, Alison Kraus is "made in her image"... Wink

i would LOVE to see her in concert!


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I took lessons from him in 1968 in a grungy
by Ziks511 Apr 19, 2005 6:09AM PDT

funky little flat in London. God what a guitar player. I used to play Angie, his big hit, tolerably well and used it as one of my show pieces when I was doing the Folk Festival thing up until 1974. I was also part of a duo called Turpin's Rosebud Cafe which did ragtime duets slightly before Ric Schonberg and Dave Liebman blew us off the circuit. I admit it, they were better, but we were more adventurous. I saw Davy Graham last in 2000, (he looks old, but of course he is old, nearly 70) at the Hoy at Anchor in Southend.

Also saw Waterson Carthy there as well as here after we came back. Martin Carthy is a killer guitar player too but his voice is so great it kind of pushes the guitar into the background. Also daughter Eliza Carthy is such a fireball that you tend to dwell a bit on her too. Norma Waterson has a voice that fills a hall, no microphones need apply, I reccommend any and all recordings by them individually or collectively.

The first four Pierre Ben susan records (Pres de Paris, 2, Solilai, and Musiques) are my personal faves. He has become more of a composer in the last 20 years with influences from North Africa Spain Brazil and Iraq all melding in his music to form something totally wonderful. His CD's are sometimes filed under New Age.

Rob Boyter

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