Blue Monday Livestream / Artist in focus: Sam Mitchell and his slide playing, live backup, Q&A..

Welcome!
I'm livestreaming every Monday at 9pm CEST, and this corresponds to:
12pm PST / 2pm CST / 3pm EST / 8pm GMT (London) / 7am AEDT (Sidney)

New video that you can watch prior to the livestream:
https://youtu.be/WbYkYbH4_r8
If you feel uncertain about how to tune to Open D and Open G, if you'd like to learn basics of fingerpicking and slide playing, watch this video first (11 mins only)
Then join me LIVE! Welcome!

TIMESTAMPS:
0:00:00-02:57 Intro - playing "Come On In My Kitchen" from "Two Long From Home" CD
02:28-06:04 Welcome all, who's with us today....
06:05-08:52 The Welcome Song - "Sitting On Top Of The World"
08:53-11:05 Explaining the today's Guitar Backup grooves (moderate blues shuffle)
11:06-14:10 Blues Backup in standard tuning, key of E
14:11-15:35 Explaining the "Prepare for Livestreams" video
15:38-19:28 Blues Backup in standard tuning, key of A
22:50-33:47 ARTIST IN FOCUS: Sam Mitchell
33:48-38:11 Lick Of The Week - Sam Mitchell's slide playing in "Sitting On Top Of The World"
38:50-43:05 Blues Backup in Open G
43:06-46:30 Great question from a viewer "How much pressure are you using with the slide..."
46:50-1:02:00 GUEST INTERVIEW - Ian MvWee of Diamond Bottlenecks
1:02:20-1:05:56 Explaining the slide technique used in "Come On In My Kitchen" (Open G)
1:07:30-1:09:20 Playing "Custard Pie Blues" by Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee
1:10:14-1:11:35 Q&A - "Do you use a pick at all?...

Important notice form our guest today, Ian McWee of Diamond Bottlenecks:
"The one question that was raised regarding the lead content in our hand-blown crystal glass 'Ultimate's - it has been mentioned before, usually by the American customers - is a good one! The answer is there's 24% lead to molten glass mixture in the slides, but it's not raw 'red lead' which can be irritating on the skin. The 24% lead is added to the molten glass in the furnace ~ it's infused inside the solid glass wall so wouldn't touch naked skin - the tubes are all 100% safe to health....."
Thanks for the clarification Ian!!

Most of the guitars Homesick Mac is playing are made by the master luthier Michael Sandén:
https://www.sandenguitars.com

Homesick Mac's slides made by:
https://diamondbottlenecks.com/HomesickMac.html
https://daddyslide.de/home_en/#signatureslides_en


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Homesick Mac (Dragan Ruzic - Macan) is an acoustic (for the most part) guitarist and singer born in former Yugoslavia, now living in Sweden.
I run annual Guitar Retreats for "non-guitarists" at the island of Ven in southern Sweden.
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