![]() In other words, you grab the people’s attention and pull them to you. “That way I feel it’s a little bit more intimate. Terra Blues was as still as a house at midnight when SaRon plucked a simple string of notes one at a time very, very quietly (that moment is in the video above). ![]() Like most great blues guitarists, SaRon plays with passion and with mind-boggling dexterity, his fingers dancing up and down the neck of his guitar with incredible ease.īut unlike many blues guitarists, he also delivers songs almost with a whisper, single notes played quietly and slowly. “Nobody else knew I messed it up, but I did, and it’s BB! You gotta do right by BB.” So much so that at the end of his second set, he repeated a piece he’d done in the first set because, in his mind, he hadn’t done it justice the first time. SaRon also loves BB King, and he does that love justice. In the interview with him after the show, he admitted (with a laugh) that, yes indeed, he does get lost sometimes (a trait I’m noticing among the best blues and jazz musicians). SaRon is so into hi s music that there were several times during the evening when he didn’t seem to be in the room but somewhere else, deep into wherever his musical mind was taking him. My grandfather played the blues, my father played the blues, a lot of my family members are musicians.” “BB King, Albert King, those were my guys. ![]() “I grew up with that kind of music,” he said in my interview with him after the show. He never mentions that he was inducted into the New York Blues Hall of Fame back in 2011. He’s a musician who’s played around the world, but he still comes across as genuine, unaffected, and deeply into his music. ![]() He is the quintessential blues guitarist: deep, soulful voice exquisite guitar-picking skills insightful, often funny lyrics (listen to his song about the EasyBake Oven in the video above). ![]() TERRA BLUES, NYC - Half of the crowd at Terra Blues usually listens to the musicians, and half the crowd, the chatty folks around the bar, don’t. ![]()
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