Posted on 2025-04-24
Delta Boogie Newsletter-Gamerplus News - April 2025 - United Gospel Trio and Jazz Buskers at New Jazz In Jonesboro - Gameday Sunday Afternoons - Conventions
This Saturday, April 26 at 7:00 pm Central, New Jazz In Jonesboro returns, relocated to the Brookland Methodist Church Youth Building, a white building behind the church located at 301 W. Matthews in Brookland, Arkansas.
Playing this Saturday will be the United Gospel Trio and Jazz Buskers. There is no charge to attend but there will be a tip jar for the featured act.
Not in Jonesboro! In Brookland! Yes i know there's a Matthews St. in Jonesboro too. That's why I have all the exclamation points.
Also in music I have released a new CD, 1625 Groove Street, featuring Paul Lessard on alto. In the rhythm section are my friends from the ASU Jazz Program. Thanks to Chris Isom for suggesting this session.
https://archive.org/details/hl2025-03-25
Enjoy!
In gaming I will be the DM for the younger kids while Chris continues running his 5e campaign at our Sunday afternoon game day in the Brookland Methodist youth building, 2:00 to 5:00 PM. Chris also has all the board games for those who would prefer that side of tabletop gaming. We are looking for a volunteer to teach board games.
NEA Gamers Guild also has game days on the second Saturday at the Jonesboro Public Library Round Room and on the third Saturday at the Walnut Ridge Public Library.
I am also looking forward to attending the North Texas OSR convention in June and NEA Game Fest in July.
https://ntrpgcon.com/
https://www.neagamersguild.org/#NEAGameFest
https://home.gamerplus.org/permalink.php?fname=Delta_Boogie_Newsletter-Gamerplus_News_-_April_2025.txt
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Thanks,
Hairy Larry
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Eric Krasno LA
Posted on 2025-04-21
DJ Hairy Larry Presents John Good and Friends Playing Honky Tonk Joy
From the Archives Of Something Blue 2025-04-20
https://sbblues.com/2025/04/21/dj-hairy-larry-presents-john-good-and-friends-playing-honky-tonk-joy/
Thanks Marty, today we’re going to hear a musician I played with 30 years ago who sent me some songs recently recorded.
Back in the nineties a guitarist called Duke was jamming with Hairy Larry and The Flying Hungarians. He even played at Blues Fest. A great guy and a great musician.
Now, 30 years later, I get an email from John Good. Duke is his stagename. John Good is his name. I probably knew that back at the time but I only remembered Duke.
And he sent me two CDs recorded by John Good and Friends. Excellent work played by excellent musicians from Little Rock, Arkansas.
The song I picked to play on Arkansas Roots is “Honky Tonk Joy” an original song recorded by John Good and Friends and featuring guitarists, Nick Devlin and John Good. It’s a rocker done in a style that is close to my heart, Honky Tonk.
So now, recorded in Little Rock Arkansas by John Good and Friends here’s “Honky Tonk Joy”.
This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring John Good, Spafford, and Eric Krasno. For more about the show visit the Something Blue website at sbblues.com.
Don’t miss Something Blue, Saturday night at 10:00 PM Central, at kasu.org.
Now Playing On Something Blue – Coastline
https://sbblues.com/2025/04/19/coastline/
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Posted on 2025-04-15
Great Reviews On The New Album, 1625 Groove Street
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Ruffy says - Solid work! Make sure to give the sax guy a raise! :3
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My friend ZDL from Wuhan, China, sent me this review on Mastodon.
I quite like this. It's nice, light fare meaning I can have it as the background when I'm working, but if I pause and concentrate on it there are some very nice depths to it. Also the sax soloist is fire.
Listen here.
https://archive.org/details/hl2025-03-25
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Posted on 2025-04-14
Shepherd, Cobb, and Heyl
HairyLarryLand
NE Arkansas
April 13, 2025
https://archive.org/details/hl2025-04-13
Songs
1 White Rats And Meerkats by Larry Heyl
2 Humboogie by John Shepherd
Personnel
John Shepherd - guitar
Mike Cobb - bass
Hairy Larry - piano
Recorded to my Zoom H6 from a stereo pair of Realistic 1070D omni microphones hanging from the rafters.
Audio post in SAW Classic.
The flash card ran out of space at the start of John's solo on Humboogie. For more of John's guitar work go to HairyLarryLand at hairylarryland.com.
This was a test of my livestream setup for my Fly On The Wall Recording Sessions. We did not livestream this session. The pictures are from the recorded footage.
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Steve Lawson-Hark Winter
Posted on 2025-04-11
MixRemix On Anonradio - From The Creative Commons Jazz Library - 2025-04-11
jazz.mixremix.cc
https://archive.org/details/ccj2025-04-11
13:23
Hark/Winter (Christmas 2016) by Steve Lawson
https://music.stevelawson.net/track/hark-winter-christmas-2016
CC BY-NC-SA
28:54
Tom La Meche-Personnel
https://www.jamendo.com/album/786/personnel
CC BY-NC-SA
38:55
Regis V. Gronoff-Paris in the Rain
https://www.jamendo.com/album/43607/paris-in-the-rain
CC BY-NC-SA
41:31
Regis V Gronoff-Dreaming of the Good Times
https://www.jamendo.com/album/29728/dreaming-of-the-good-times
CC BY-NC-SA
57:30
Reno Project -1.0
https://www.jamendo.com/album/23661/1-0
CC BY-NC-ND
50:19
La vie sous la mer - Bruce H. McCosar
https://www.jamendo.com/album/9479/la-vie-sous-la-mer
CC BY-SA
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Posted on 2025-04-09
Rules of engagement.
If someone shows up in your notifications open their posts.
Find something you like, boost and reply.
If you find posts you like and you're not already folllowing, follow.
This way I follow new people who have shown an interest in my posts and I start a conversation.
https://gamerplus.org/deck/@hairylarry/114308031814268126
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John Shepherd
Posted on 2025-04-06
DJ Hairy Larry Presents John Shepherd Playing I Want To Be The One
https://sbblues.com/2025/04/06/dj-hairy-larry-presents-john-shepherd-playing-i-want-to-be-the-one/
It all started one year at Blues Fest. John Shepherd played the first part of his set without a band and Vivian loved it. Well, I did too, so I got in touch with John about recording a solo album and although it was a little bit outside of his comfort zone he was game.
Now I’m going to have to try to find that Blues Fest performance. It was probably in 2008 because …
I recorded John Shepherd at HairyLarryLand on February 21, 2009 and March 21, 2009. All tracks are John Shepherd, guitar and vocals, with no overdubs.
So it’s essentially a live album.
And he wrote all the songs.
We called the album “So Low” and it’s just killing all the way through. I picked the song “I Want To Be The One” to play today because of it’s deep lyric and exceptional blues guitar.
He showed up to play with just a guitar case. He said, “Don’t worry, there’s an amp in there too”. And sure enough when he opened his case there was a Pignose amp. I had John set up to sing in one room and I put the amp in another room with a close mic for sound isolation. So I was able to get John’s vocals right on top something that can be difficult to do when he’s singing with a loud band.
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Posted on 2025-03-27
Jazz Improv
I love extended solos and I've been thinking about them a bit. A good jazz improv extended solo has a timeless quality in the sense that it exists outside of time.
At some point after the musician has played three or four choruses the audience realizes that it's always different and that the soloist could go on forever never playing the same thing. And then they forget that it ever started. And then they feel like it will go on forever.
And then, like all things, it ends.
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