Oct 1, 2019
I set
myself a rule when working up ideas for the Lives in Music podcast
series. Nobody under 50, please, otherwise the experiences and
perspectives I hoped to glean might not be juicy enough.
Then, I
promptly broke my rule for Sam
Slater.
Sam is the
youngest person featured in this series of Lives in Music, but he's
packed an awful lot into his (relatively) tender years. I've known
him for ages, since he first emerged in a lovely guitar
trio, Trio Gitano, one of whose
members, Sophia Johnson, is now earning rave
reviews playing country and bluegrass in Austin Texas.
Sam moved
on into Jazz and World music to great effect. A dab hand on guitar
and other stringed instruments like the Oud, Sam has a bewildering
range of activities, not counting his Jazz
Label Stoney Lane, which documents some of
the finest players in the West Midlands region of the
UK.
John broke
out both guitar and oud to illustrate a couple of points. It was a
sheer delight to listen.
Links
Stoney Lane Records
TG Collective
Paco De Lucia
The
Oud
Lives in Music
The
Lives in Music series celebrates people who have spent a lifetime
in music. They may be famous; they may be people who have spent
their lives working in the background for the love of it. They all
have stories.
The theme
music for this series is by Big Q
Fish. 'Boksburg Jive Toon' was written
by Brian Neil, and recorded at the Jam House,
Birmingham, in 2017.
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