When I was 6 my dad taught me the blues scale, and I started writing songs and improvising.
“When I was 6 my dad taught me the blues scale, and I started writing songs and improvising.”
— Jack Conte · Blues
The World Motivation
When I was 6 my dad taught me the blues scale, and I started writing songs and improvising.
“When I was 6 my dad taught me the blues scale, and I started writing songs and improvising.”
— Jack Conte · Blues
When I was 6 my dad taught me the blues scale, and I started writing songs and improvising.
Kickstarter is not appropriate for a blogger who writes weekly articles - he doesn't need a big chunk of money, and he has no big project to use it for. He needs monthly income, and Patreon brings crowd funding away from singular one-off projects and into the realm of regular content creation.
At the end of almost every video in my YouTube catalog since Patreon's launch, I talk about my work at the company.
I'm not an entrepreneur.
I've dealt with a record label in the past.
My first concert was Chicago and Moody Blues. I was 15 years old.
We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.
What did we play in the Harry Dean Stanton Band? It was old blues and country - all covers. I never wrote anything.
I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but rock 'n' roll especially comes from blues.
I would hear Steely Dan on the radio all the time, and I listened to 'Aja' a lot. I mean, 'Black Cow' and 'Aja' and 'Deacon Blues' and 'Josie' and 'Peg'... all these songs are on one record. It's crazy!