Your Name: Andrew
Subject: Love the site!
Message: Hello,
I want to thank you for providing such an excellent resource for learning how to play ragtime guitar and its history. Keith Richards was my inspiration for picking up the guitar nearly five years ago. Over the course of my time playing, I have been working backwards from Keith to Chuck Berry to Muddy Waters to Robert Johnson. I\'ve been struggling trying to learn to play in the style of Robert Johnson for a long time. I feel the lessons you have posted thus far may help me begin to acquire the chops necessary for this style. Any chance there may be a Johnson or Rev Gary Davis-type lesson in the works? Thank you again for your work. I really appreciate it, and I\'m looking forward to what\'s to come.
-Andrew
Hi Andrew,
Thanks so much for writing ... we sincerely appreciate the positive input. Most definitely! We will be posting Robert Johnson and Rev Gary Davis transcriptions ... so stay tuned.
All my best,
Mickey Cochran
April 18, 2009: Hello, I'm a big fan of your website. I hope you guys can expand it way more in the future.
I noticed you didn't mention Dave Van Ronk on your history page. He arranged and recorded St. Louis Tickle for guitar in 1964 on his album 'In The Tradition'. He wrote in his memoirs that, as far as he knew, he was the first known person to arrange and record a classic piano rag for the guitar, although he strongly suspected that classic ragtime guitar existed in the early 1900s but went unrecorded.
I think this is pretty accurate - I've never heard anyone else play a piano rag on the guitar earlier than 1964. Blind Blake didn't really play piano rags, and Rev. Gary Davis seemed to play rags his own way to the point where something like his Make Believe Stunt/Maple Leaf Rag is not really identifiable or very close to Joplin's original Maple Leaf. Van Ronk's St. Louis Tickle, though, is very much identifiable as St. Louis Tickle.
I hope you guys can confirm this information (maybe Stefan Grossman could help with this?) and use it somehow. Good luck on building up your site.
Aaron
NEWS RELEASE: Dear Mickey Cochran
I've enjoyed your webpage concerning ragtime music and maybe you would be
interested in helping us promote the Danish Folk, Blues & Ragtime Guitar
Festival 2009. Some of the Worlds best ragtime guitarists will assemble at
Skarrildhus in Denmark on August 05th - 07th.
Including: Find out more about Dave Laibmann, Duck Baker, Woody Mann, Kenn Lending, Hans Theessink, Thomasina Winslow, Ton Engels, H. P. Lange, Nick Katzman, Lasse Johansson, Peter Finger, Paul Banks and John James
I enclose our press release that will tell you a little more about the event
and hope you maybe would be willing to make a notice of it on your webpage.
Thanks ... If you need any other information do not hesitate to contact me.
All the best
Lars Veds?
woodlyd
Click Here for the News Release! • http://www.s-e-s.dk/Skarrild.htm
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