Howdy, and this is Mike Dollins. I want you to meet the blues guitar gang. I was voted the blues guitar senior mascot by these boys, all hot-gun blues pickers. Visit their sites, if you like smokin' hot blues guitar that is. The rest of the story below:
The Blues Guitar Gang
Mike Dollins, the Senior Blues Cat
PRS Rippin' Johnny Mannion
Lester Smokin' Greg Martin
Texas Jake, King of the Slide
John "Hot Tub" Kreir
Steve "Hat Trick" McTaggart
Mark "Blues Nation" Kerr
Now, this bunch of seven guys all became blues guitar buddies from different ways, but we all bonded deep into a blues guitar brotherhood of mutual respect, and friendship. In a music world filled with "It's About Me" here are some real deal players, that don't mind sharing the hog. I guess when you know who you are, and don't have to worry about looking over your shoulder, confidence in what you do flourishes. What I get from each one, is they have all learned to reach down in their soul, and pull up feelings that they emit through their guitars. They are not in love with their self, which most of the music entertainment world seems to be, but rather in love with their guitars and their music. These guys know the long half a decade of blues guitar journey I've been on, and show me respect as the elder blues guitar cat. What an honor from such rippin' young guitar slingers like this crew. Mark and I were chatting on how it would be a dream fulfilled for some big time operator music entrepreneur to get this gang together with a hot, right on blues house band, and have a worldwide televised blues jam session. I'm not talking about playing music, and songs here brother. The songs are only the highway to the blues, not the blues. What each of us learned here from the original blues masters, is jamming. I have played with thousands of players from all over the world, and it totally amazes me when I say "start something," they go blank. Dang, don't you know how to just jam? Well these boys can jam your socks off, and melt 6L6 tubes into oblivion. Think this old man is feeding you a line of bull, go on over, and check out these blues guitar pickers, and their music. We'll talk more about this crew, as time goes by. Thank you, from the blues motherland Arkansas, USA.
Roy & Sandy McCann of Ozark Blues Society, a husband and wife blues team, are our adopted brother and sister in blues guitar. Thank you guys.
Sandy, recommended a MVP segment for the Blues Guitar Gang. Well, here we go. The feedback on the launch of the blues guitar gang has been tremendous with almost 10,000 hits on the first day. What goes round, comes around. So from the fella's in the Blues Guitar Gang, here are some BGG MVP's. We'll post 'em as we get them. Take care y'all from Delta Blues Motherland, Arkansas USA. Check out our other Blues Tabs & Friends.
Pssst. Want to know a secret? Pass the word about the Blues Guitar Gang, tell us all about it, and we'll post you in the MVP's.
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We want to thank brother Ron Ryder, at the Radio Cave, as he was the first Blues DJ to play Mike's breaking-out solo CD back in 2000. He also, has the Blues Guitar Gang proudly posted on his GREAT blues site.
<<< Go on over, and introduce your self to Ted, one super good guy, and brother to the Blues Guitar Gang.
Mike, Thanks for the heads up. I will visit the site, at length, when I return from this NC trip.
I am in need of a bass player for a project - recording and performing. If you know anyone in the St. Petersburg or Tampa area, let me know. We are putting a 12 song project together for a BBQ chain, originating out of Texas. It will carry their logo and will be sold in their stores, as well as distributed through conventional markets. It will be mostly original blues tunes, some with a Texas flavor and possibly a taste of Southern Rock. If you know of anyone, send 'em my way. Hal
80,000 Blues Guitar Friends Can't Be Wrong.
NOTE: Someone is tracking us with a spy tracker, to see if we have truth in advertising we suppose. Number one, we aren't advertising, just posting our USA first amendment entitlement called free speech. This is a volunteer come see us site, not a national ad campaign. Secondly, we don't really care, but I wonder who is tracking us, and why? Interesting huh? The 80,000 blues guitar friends statement was calculated by roughly counting visitors on over ten MySpace Sites, ticker counts and MySpace Friends. Plus the traffic on at least ten more related web sites. This site alone averages 6,000 hits a day, peaks at 10,000 on great days, and 3,000 on lesser days. Thanks for the inquiries we have had on the subject, and this is an honest answer to the best of our knowledge.