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A little blurb from last night’s Crawfish gig at the Rock Bottom Blues Club… :P

Last Saturday Swamp Train played at the Vully Blues Festival, our first “serious” gig, starting at 19h00, 4 sets, over three hours of playing. The above video of use playing Willie Dixon’s “Spoonful” is from the beginning of the first set and if the crowd seems a tad scarce it’s because folks were still arriving, by the second the place was packed.

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This is a series of 20 short videos from YouTube user tambourine21 that more or less show 19 washboards from the Jug Band Fest 2007 in, I’m guessing..

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Well, here it is: Swamp Train as seen last Saturday night @ the Blues Club Fribourg! Sorry the sound isn’t any better but it’s what you get with today’s automatic level technology…

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As I’ve probably already written here, I’m finally comfortable with my washboard playing enough to begin working on my nonexistent drum technique. Plus having a snare drum these last two months has also put more pressure on getting some decent bass drum action. So it’s been practice, practice and practice some more which may have been okay if I hadn’t overdone it; but I did; Thursday an unexpected pain in the knee added a high octane dose of anxiety to my stage fright. Still there is never much choice, if you can get out of bed than there it is…

The sound check went well, although as usual amplification changed our great [ ;-) ] acoustic sound into something different, and so off Dave and I went to find something edible; did you say pizza?

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A ride through my favorite city, filmed by one of my best friends, this one’s for me! :-)