{"id":6438,"date":"2014-12-04T05:45:07","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T05:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=6438"},"modified":"2014-12-04T05:45:07","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T05:45:07","slug":"one-of-my-favorites-and-i-didnt-even-know-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/one-of-my-favorites-and-i-didnt-even-know-it\/","title":{"rendered":"One of my favorites and I didn&#8217;t even know it&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As it turns out, I&#8217;m a big <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jimmy_Rogers\" target=\"_blank\">Jimmy Rogers<\/a> fan and I didn&#8217;t even know it until recently!<\/p>\n<p>He wrote one of my favorite tunes to play, Walking By Myself&#8230; though admittedly my version is a little more Gary Moore.<\/p>\n<p>But now that I&#8217;ve found some of these great clips of him playing this iconic blues classic, I might have to make some adjustments \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Jimmy playing on his 70th birthday&#8230; I chose this one because a lot of times people ask if you can play &#8220;acoustic style&#8221; (as in, by yourself) with an electric guitar. And while Jimmy has a harmonica player and another guitar player with him, I think it&#8217;s clear he&#8217;d be just fine on his own<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-plugin-new youtube\" style=\"max-width:100%; width:560px; height:auto; padding-top:0; padding-bottom:0; margin:0 auto;margin:0 auto; border: 0px solid #fff;margin-bottom: 20px;\"><div style=\"width:560px;height:0;  padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top:0;\"><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QmmLNpx_hXo?wmode=opaque&showinfo=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;vq=&amp;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p>And then I found one of him playing Walking By Myself with James Cotton back in the 70&#8217;s&#8230; check out the groove on this one:<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-plugin-new youtube\" style=\"max-width:100%; width:560px; height:auto; padding-top:0; padding-bottom:0; margin:0 auto;margin:0 auto; border: 0px solid #fff;margin-bottom: 20px;\"><div style=\"width:560px;height:0;  padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top:0;\"><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9PmzUHFcEF0?wmode=opaque&showinfo=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;vq=&amp;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p>But the coolest video is this one from the Conan O&#8217;Brien show in the mid 90&#8217;s&#8230; make sure you stay and watch the interview with him talking about hearing Robert Johnson and some other original bluesmen&#8230; he must have had quite a ride!<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-plugin-new youtube\" style=\"max-width:100%; width:560px; height:auto; padding-top:0; padding-bottom:0; margin:0 auto;margin:0 auto; border: 0px solid #fff;margin-bottom: 20px;\"><div style=\"width:560px;height:0;  padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top:0;\"><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LA9SZ48W6zs?wmode=opaque&showinfo=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;vq=&amp;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Jimmy Rogers was without a doubt one of the founding fathers of electric Chicago style blues so if you haven&#8217;t heard him&#8230; well you have now!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As it turns out, I&#8217;m a big Jimmy Rogers fan and I didn&#8217;t even know it until recently! He wrote one of my favorite tunes to play, Walking By Myself&#8230; though admittedly my version is a little more Gary Moore. But now that I&#8217;ve found some of these great clips of him playing this iconic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6438"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6439,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6438\/revisions\/6439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}