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There is more than one reason why this cover of Sweet Home Alabama finds favour in my eyes :D.

Mostly (honestly!) it is because Laura, the artist, has shown that if you persist and have the talent then you can get to do what it is that you love. She started a few years back putting vids up on YouTube and now she is in a band and touring :tup:.
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One more for good measure:

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And one to show she has a sense of humour too and acknowledges how the music industry these days unfairly requires its female participants to look as well as sound good {listen for the words as the short clip fades to black :D} :


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I really should stop listening to this song on repeat ... even fourteen months on, the tears flow in torrents as this otherwise wonderfully emotive piece emotes me right back to that night of all nights that I wish with all my heart I could make not be. For the words are just far too apt in my mind as my wife sings one part to me and I answer with the other:

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You look better than that fellow, I am sure you sing better as well!

(I managed to eventually stop listening to Madonna's 'Frozen' and I avoid Billy Joel's 'Always a woman' and 'She's got a way about her' on principle)
 
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Some more Laura Cox ... I don't need a reason :p

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A bit of an experiment here ... here's me dusting off my SG after about twenty years of not practising :eek:.

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And here is after a bit more loosening up and a more rock orientated setting on the amp ...

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If I do say so myself, a rather nice little piece of soft and slow Blues ...

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You're a heck of a guitar player, sukerkin. I'm impressed!


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You can see and hear who some your influences are. Clapton's deceptively 'slow' left hand, with Gary Moore in the bends and vibrato, and isn't that Duane Allman hiding in some of the major flavoured passing notes around that pentatonic? Nice.

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:smiles: Thank you, Gnarlie and Steve for your kind words and appreciation :bows:. And you certainly know your modern Blues-men, Gnarlie :D.
 

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:smiles: Thank you, Gnarlie and Steve for your kind words and appreciation :bows:. And you certainly know your modern Blues-men, Gnarlie :D.

The SG...does it make a good blues guitar? To play?

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Absolutely so :nods firmly:. A number of players like the 'brighter' sound of the Strat or the mellower sound of a Les Paul but I think the SG is the best 'dirty' blues instrument - for me at least.

I wanted one for years once I'd played enough to have an idea of what I liked. That was mostly down to Tony Iommi and Tony McPhee I reckon :).

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I finally bought one but that was after my bike accident and I could never play as well as I used to so, after a couple of years trying to get back 'up' there I quit for about twenty years :eek:. But I have decided that I love playing more than it bothers me that I'm not as good as I was any more, so the SG is finally getting the attention she deserves :D. She has twin dual-tapped humbuckers so, in theory, I can get her to sound like a Strat or a Les Paul as well as that harder edged SG tone that I adore so much :).
 
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Another piece of bluesy improv :). This one is marred at the five minute (ish) point by a huge, stumbling, lapse in concentration as I realised how late at night it was and how much noise I was making :eek:.

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Another piece of bluesy improv :). This one is marred at the five minute (ish) point by a huge, stumbling, lapse in concentration as I realised how late at night it was and how much noise I was making :eek:.

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Yes my friend very nice.................
 
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A switch to the amped up acoustic side of the street :D. I reckon the amp was on too quiet for this tho' as the raw acoustic sound of the guitar is what you mostly hear ...

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