Scott Ainslie: BluesNotes
Scott AinslieWith more than a half-century of work with traditional musicians on both sides of the color line, I'll be writing about that roots-oriented, mentor-driven life in music, the revelations, and adventures it has brought.
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Scott Ainslie - The Land That I Love
Haunted by the story of a NAFTA refugee’s loss on the Tohono O’odham reservation that straddles the Arizona-Mexican border, as her sister searched for some sign of her with a guide from the tribe and an NPR reporter accompanying her, I carr...
Scott Ainslie - It's Gonna Rain ©2005
I wrote this song in June of 2005, and sang it first at a music festival in Maryland around the fourth of July; a nice little lost-love song. Not quite eight weeks later, Katrina rolled through, scraped the Gulf Coast clean, and the next da...
Scott Ainslie - Keep Your Lamp Trimmed & Burning
This ancient spiritual employs a metaphor from the Old Testament (’keep your lamp trimmed and burning’). The untrimmed wick in an oil or kerosene lamp will burn and smoke up the house, but a well-trimmed wick will allow just the fumes of th...
Sugar Babe (a fretless Gourd banjo version)
I have always loved this minor pentatonic banjo tuning. Sherman Hammons seems to be the only source for it in my experience, this one tune being its sole expression.
Sugar Babe is a very bluesy-themed song. Sherman sang it one way and play...
A Moving Year
A Moving year
The Move
For more than twenty years, Barb Ackemann and I lived quite happily in a 1905-6 house in a neighborhood of musicians in Brattleboro, Vermont. I called the area ‘the music ghetto’ because instead of someone comin...
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Taking up the guitar in 1967 during the Civil Rights and Anti-War movements of the 1960s, cross-cultural exchange, non-commercial root-based music, and an abiding responsibility to the old people are my interests.
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