X Rey Guitar - Premium Acoustic Guitar for Beginners & Professionals | Perfect for Home Practice, Live Performances & Studio Recording
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Product Description Del Rey started playing classical guitar when she was four. As a teenager, she met bluesman Sam Chatmon who inspired her to become a blues queen. Her guitar playing combines country blues, stride piano, classic jazz and hillbilly boogie through the sensibility of an autodidact trailor-park esthete. Her live show is full of complex guitar grooves and sly humor. Del Rey plays concerts world wide and also presents a concert/lecture on women musicians called Women in American Music. She collaborates and tours frequently with Austin guitarist Steve James and she plays ukulele with The Yes Yes Boys and Ukeshack. Since 2004 she has been collaborating with Maria Mulduar on tributes to Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Johnny Cash, and she is featured on Ms. Muldaur's latest CD Sweet Lovin' Old Soul. Del Rey also writes about music for various publications, including Acoustic Guitar. Review Del Rey shows once again that her six-string talents know few bounds...on X-Rey Guitar she swings from rags to rich zydeco, rhumba and down-home blues sounds. -- Blues Access Summer 2000Rey's a fine guitarist and a distinctive singer...X-Rey Guitar should appeal to listeners beyond the blues genre. -- Blues Revue July/August 2000
Customer Reviews
With space-age title and cover art, this CD is firmly grounded in old-fashioned country blues -- but speeded up, caffeinated Seattle-style! The modern West Coast guitar queen Del Rey pays tribute to her idol, the 1930s guitar queen Memphis Minnie, by covering the killer Minnie instrumental "On the Wall" and by performing an original ("Memphis Minnie") that tells the story of Minnie's life while mimicking her various guitar styles. Guitar, as the CD title suggests, is what Del Rey is all about. Her technique, on metal-bodied, finger-picked guitar, is awesome. "On the Wall," for example, was performed by TWO great guitarists (Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy) in its original version, but Rey manages to handle it all alone! On "On the Wall," Rey adapts a piano part to her guitar, and on "Charleston Mad" she plays like a whole band. Speaking of bands -- several of the cuts are solo, but on others Rey gets help from sidepeople including harpist Phil Wiggins, fiddler Suzy Thompson, drummer Ben Smith and others.
