{"id":466,"date":"2008-08-17T12:57:49","date_gmt":"2008-08-17T16:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=466"},"modified":"2008-08-19T06:41:58","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T10:41:58","slug":"lightnin-pickin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/lightnin-pickin\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightnin’ Pickin’"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the Writers to Be Read category over there on the right, you’ll see a link to something called Froogville. Its proprietor, one (presumably pseudonymous) Froog, runs a second blog as well: Round-the-World Barstool Blues<\/a> whose mission, he says there, can be summed up as “Musings on life & love from the bars of the world.”<\/p>\n

In a recent post<\/a>, titled “Great Drinking Songs (9),” Froog includes a video of a group of Cornish fishermen singing the song “[Bound for] South Australia.” Which is entertaining, sort of — in the way any given film of any arbitrary group of non-professional<\/span> semi-professional [thanks, Froog]<\/em><\/span> singers, singing any given drinking song on a beach in a vaguely disorganized way, is entertaining.<\/p>\n

Much much<\/em> better, though, is the YouTube video below (a simple link to which Froog provided in his post), of an Australian guitarist named Tommy Emmanuel<\/a> — playing the same song in a manner which frankly left me slack-jawed with amazement. I have NEVER seen or (I think) heard anyone play a guitar this fast.<\/p>\n

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See what I mean? I close my eyes and hear not a guitar but a banjo, or maybe a mandolin. But guitar<\/em>…?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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