Posts Tagged ‘gypsy swing’

Still Django-n’ it!

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

My God! Buy this CD! There is 69 of them left for 7 bucks or less.

The Best of Django Reinhardt

If you cant like this music then there is a big orange bridge in San Francisco that you can go and jump off!

Django Reinhardt Had a Wallet that said “Old Timey Gypsy” on it.

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

It’s Just an old-timey jug-wine train party! You know, happens all the time!

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Django Reinhardt was the originator of “Gypsy Swing”. Later in life he lost the use of all but his index and middle finger on his left hand. For a guitarist, this would most certainly spell doom, but, for Django it added a certain nuance to his already expressive playing. Not to mention, a kinda-creepy quality to his stage appearance.

Django Reinhardt

Many artists cite Django Reinhardt as an influence. In fact, Jimi Hendrix named his band “the Band of Gypsy’s” in honor of Django.

Here’s a gift. put this next video on and clean your house. Holy crap! The videos not too interesting but a little Minor Swing will do wonders for your mop-boards.

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Whoever is playing the violin on this track ‘went down to Georgia looking for a soul to steal.’ And there is no way it went like Chuck Daniels said!



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