Joel's love for music extends beyond just the music itself and encompasses the entire blues culture, and the people who live and work within it.
Once in a while, an itinerant blues player, out on the road, living and playing the blues, will accept Joel's gracious offer of a place to stay for a while, and maybe even perform an intimate show in the backyard, right behind the house beneath the tree leaves.
Michael Pickett has done this on more than one occasion, and I have been fortunate enough to attend two of his Backyard Concerts at Joel's place.
A review of the 2009 show can be found here. I brought no camera that time, and instead simply immersed myself into the experience as fully as possible. No distractions. It was very good.
In 2010, I brought the camera, and took a wealth of photographs. Louise, Michael's wife, also took a bunch with it, and the pair down at the bottom, of Michael, are taken by her. But Michael keeps things spare and simple, and I do believe I'm going to follow his lead, and so I will use only just a few shots that cover the basics, and no more.
The Blues is a deceptively simple thing, that runs very deep and wide despite its austere exterior.
Perhaps one or two of the below shots will generate a stray thought or two, in similar fashion.
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Lee Oskar Harmonicas | ||
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