Walking Blues #2

Written and Recorded in 1999 (or 2000)

 

Walking Blues was an instrumental piece I wrote as a part of The D-E-C-D Suite. It was just an idea to integrate a simple motif of the Suite into the chord progression of 12-bar blues. In the original version I recorded for the suite, the motif was assigned for the brass section, actually played by the synthesizer, and harmonica.

When the recording was done, I thought it would be worthwhile to make another take before deleting the backing track data completely from the digital multi-track-recorder. Since the original take was made purposefully for fitting in to the concept of the Suite, it was OK for that specific purpose but was not satisfying in terms of arrangement and its use of the guitar. 

Though I started out playing the guitar being obsessed with Blues/Rock music, opportunity for me to play genuine 12-bar blues became quite rarer by that time. As far as my personal demo recordings concern, this was the first recording of 12-bar blues since the early 1990s. In other words, since the backing track sounded quite well, as a guitar player, I suddenly felt my urge for playing the blues without being bounded by crappy self-regulations such as concept or the Suite. And here’s the result.