Walking Blues

Written and Recorded in 1999

This 12-bar-blues was written as a part of an unfinished conceptual work titled The D-E-C-D Suite. It was just an idea to integrate a simple common motif within the Suite - from which, its title came from -  into the chord progression of 12-bar blues and in this piece, the motif is assigned to the brass section, actually played by the synthesizer, and harmonica.

I really liked the backing track, especially the piano part I played, and later re-used for Walking Blues #2 - for more details, please refer to the entry about the tune.

In addition, the key inspiration for this recording all came from The Paul Butterfield Blues Band's fantastic version of Everything's Gonna be Alright, performed live at the Woodstock festival in 1969, featuring Buzzy Feiten.