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in his heyday raikuda was by far the
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best slide guitarist in the world
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normally such a statement would invite
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controversy but for three decades from
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the late 60s to the late 90s kuda really
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was head and shoulders above every other
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slide guitarist in the world
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when cuda was listed in 2003 at number
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eight on the rolling stones list of 100
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greatest guitarists of all time above
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jimmy page keith richards and jeff beck
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nobody argued cuda is a master of both
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the acoustic and the electric guitar and
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countless other stringed instruments he
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has integrated many rock elements into
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his blues and folk based playing in his
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rhythm playing is distinctive as his
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soloing cuda possesses immaculate feel
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timing and pitch a wonderful sense of
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melody and an amazing capacity to play
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the right notes at the right time notes
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that sound entirely natural and original
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and that serve to enhance the music
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the guitarist plays with his fingers and
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is also a master of the finger style
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guitar whether he plays with or without
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a slide when playing slide he alternates
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between playing with a bottleneck and
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fretting his left hand fingers giving
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him a huge variety of options someone
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wrote perceptively his bending and
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blending of notes can make the
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instrument sound like it's talking or
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crying or laughing
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[Applause]
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cooler has a truly unique instantly
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recognizable sound and throughout his
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career his guitar skills have been in
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huge demand
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he was the guest performer on recordings
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by countless top artists including the
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rolling stones
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van morrison
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stevei
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eric clapton and many others cuda also
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wrote the soundtracks for 17 movies some
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of which became legendary
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he made pioneering and influential
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albums with musicians from india
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africa cuba hawaii and ireland
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most of all he created a stunning ovra
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of 17 highly regarded solo albums that
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taken together can match that of any
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great a-list artist for all these
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reasons cuda is sometimes simply called
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an american genius he has been
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recognized with six grammy awards
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honorary doctorates from queen's
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university in canada and the california
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institute of arts and a bbc lifetime
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achievement award cuda is 74 and has in
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recent years scaled down his activities
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his also for most of the century stepped
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back from his guitar hero role focusing
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more on playing accompanying parts on
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albums he has released but his playing
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continues to have an enormous influence
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on guitarists all over the world
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while his solo albums remain treasure
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troves of outstanding music it is why we
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are taking a closer look at the man and
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his career in this video
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ryland peter cuda was born on march the
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15th 1947 in santa monica los angeles
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his father bill kuder was a liberal
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lawyer and a folk singer and his mother
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emma cassaroli
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was of an italian descent
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an accident when he was only three years
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old shaped much of cuda's life
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he accidentally struck a knife in his
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left eye while trying to fix a toy car
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and spent a year in dark rooms and
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hospitals his eye could not be saved and
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he ended up with a glass eye one night
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after the accident while he was lying in
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his bed with the room darkened a family
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friend entered and laid something on the
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boy's stomach when the boy asked what it
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was the friend replied it's a guitar
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playing the guitar became one of his
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main ways for the one-eyed young boy of
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expressing himself
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the young kuda practiced incessantly
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initially playing the four-string guitar
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given to him and then a martin guitar
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his father bought for him when he
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noticed his son's aptitude
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he hated school and playing guitar
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offered yet another refuge
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cuda became so good so quickly that his
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father reportedly quit
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playing guitar when his son was only
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five
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because junior was already out playing
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him in his teenage years kuda spent a
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lot of time in the guitar shop on pico
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boulevard in santa monica called
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mccabe's
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and at the ash grove a local folk club
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he would sit in the front row closely
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watching the performers who included
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john farhi
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lightning hopkins
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tom paley
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doc watson
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sleepy john estes and reverend gary
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davis
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in part inspired by his folk singer dad
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the young cuda practiced woody guthrie
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and pete seeger songs and he started
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playing the blues picking up slide and
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finger-picking techniques from
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recordings by legendary players like
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elmore james
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josh white
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sun house
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blind willie johnson
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lightning hopkins
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robert johnson and many others
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amazingly a few years ago a recording
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surfaced from 1963 of a 16 year old kuda
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accompanying singer jackie deshannon
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during a concert at the ash grove
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playing traditional folk and blues songs
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it's the first known recording featuring
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cuda and his feel is already
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recognizable even at this early stage
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around this time cuda also performed as
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part of a blue grass trio with bill
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munro and doc watson it extended the
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instruments he played to banjo and led
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cuda to add banjo tunings and the three
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finger role to his guitar techniques by
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1965 at the age of 17 kuda had become a
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much sought-after local guitarist in
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that year he formed a group called
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rising suns with fellow guitarists tal
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shimahal and jessie lee kincaid bassist
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gary marker and drummer ed cassidy they
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signed to columbia records and recorded
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one album produced by terry melcher
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it was not released until 1992
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and called rising songs featuring taj
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mahal and raikuda clearly piggybacking
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on the fame
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mahal and kuda by this time enjoyed in
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1967 don van vliet leader of captain
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beef art and his magic band asked kuda
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to step in because the band's guitarist
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had suffered a nervous breakdown cuda
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featured on the band's debut album safe
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as milk in 1967. one notable
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contribution being his arrangement of
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the tune grown so ugly however at one
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point the band's original guitarist
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turned up with a loaded crossbow and
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cuda feared for his life
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after more erratic behavior this time
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from van vliet himself
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just before the band was scheduled to
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perform at the monterey pop festival in
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june 1967 cuda quit the band by this
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stage kuda was receiving regular calls
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to play as a session musician
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he was still supposed to attend high
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school and was at one point called in to
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justify his absences
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when he explained that he had made five
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thousand dollars per week for some
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sessions the response was kurt and to
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the point then what are you still doing
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here as part of his session career cuda
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played on recordings by neil young
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the monkeys and the rolling stones he
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played mandolin on the stone's cover of
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robert johnson's tune love in vain which
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appeared on let it bleed in 1969.
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apparently he showed keith richards the
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open g tuning which the stone's
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guitarist went on to use for much of his
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career kudo is also rumored to be the
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originator of the rift for the single
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honky tonk woman
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although he's never been credited
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there were more guest performances on
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albums by randy newman 12 songs gordon
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littlefeet's debut album
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judy collins
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arlo guthrie
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the everly brothers stories we could
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tell and so on kudo again worked with
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the stones on sticky fingers in 1971
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playing slide guitar on sister morphe
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and in 1969 he took part in a studio jam
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with mick jagger charlie watts bill
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wyman and pianist nikki hopkins produced
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by glenn johns it was released in 1972
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as the album jamming with edward by 1970
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being a session musician stopped being
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kuda's main focus producer lenny
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warrenka judged that kuda could be a
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successful solo artist and he signed a
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warner's reprise label his first album
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produced by wanaka and van dyke parks is
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simply called raikuda
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and was released by the end of the year
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the album is in many ways a blueprint
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for many of kuda's solo career it
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contains mostly older blues folk rock
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and roll and pop songs by the likes of
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woody guthrie blind blake
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and blind willie johnson played by an
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eclectic collection of session musicians
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including pianist van dyke parks
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bassist chris etheridge and drummers
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milt holland and richie hayward keeping
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the disparate elements on the album
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together were kuda's inimitable guitar
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playing and his voice
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which was not attractive by traditional
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standards but suited the music and most
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of all was full of swagger and attitude
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cuda had unearthed several forgotten
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gems from the past just like he would do
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for most of his solo career one example
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is how can a poor man stand such times
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and live by alfred reed first recorded
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in 1929. it has since cuda's discovery
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been covered by the likes of bruce
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springsteen ub40
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joe bonamassa and the song was added to
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the grammy hall of fame in 2020.
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second album a masterpiece into the
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purple valley released in 1972 was built
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on similar principles
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the focus this time was on protest songs
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from the 1930s dust bowl era
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set in unusual arrangements based on
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blues calypso
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folk gospel rock and country it features
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a song by bahamian guitarist joseph
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spence who had become a major influence
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on cuda the album was called a tour de
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and his playing phenomenal it was
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regarded as his commercial breakthrough
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even if sales continued to be relatively
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low cuda's third solo album boomer's
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story was called an archaeological dig
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through american folk and blues music
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and saw him work for the first time with
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drummer jim keltner who became one of
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america's top session drummers and
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continued playing with cuda for decades
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the album's standout track is the dark
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end of the street
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a soul song from 1967 written by dan
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penn and chip's moment it became a
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staple of cuda's live performances
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paradise and lunch in 1974 was next it
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combines forgotten songs from the past
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with contemporary material by bobby
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womack and bert bacharach it also
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features horn and string arrangements
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and for the first time extensive backing
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vocals which became a defining feature
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of kuda's solo music cuda showed a
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penchant for picking songs with amusing
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lyrics and titles like
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married man's a fool
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if wolves could talk and ditty way ditty
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the album also contains the traditional
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jesus on the main line which also became
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part of kuda's regular live repertoire
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chicken skin music released in 1976 saw
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kuda blend tex-mex and hawaiian music
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with latin blues folk jazz and gospel it
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marks the first time he played with
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recordings
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flacco himanus cuda himself played bajo
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sexto
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mandola bottleneck guitar french
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accordion electric guitar
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slack key guitar tipple and hawaiian
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guitar his solo cover of bourgeois blues
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a lead belly protest song from 1937
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about discrimination and segregation is
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an album highlight
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i don't wanna be mistreated
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showtime in 1977 was kuda's first live
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album recorded at the great american
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music hall in san francisco at the end
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of 1976
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with a live band that featured flacca
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jimenez and regular backing vocalists
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bobby king and terry evans cuda's
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acoustic guitar playing on jesus on the
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main line is amazing as is his solo on
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the dark end of the street which is sung
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by his backing vocalist kuda's playing
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on the entire album is
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spectacular with not only outstanding
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slide solos but also stunning rhythm
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playing that sets the entire band alight
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jazz released in 1978 is arguably kuda's
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most ambitious and strangest album as he
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set out to recreate jazz music from the
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early 20th century with dixieland
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ragtime
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vaudeville and tim pan alley elements
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kudu even uses a big band on some tracks
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the album features music by jelly roll
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morton
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bix by debeck and joseph spence and one
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of the highlights is nobody a song from
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1905 with a wonderful threated guitar
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seller cuda plays masterful acoustic
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guitar throughout the arguably flawed
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but very enjoyable album
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i ain't never done nothing
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to nobody
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by this stage some storm clouds were
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gathering over cuda's career jazz was
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received with reservations by critics
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because they felt cuda had followed old
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arrangements too closely cuda himself in
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a 1983 interview called the album a
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stupid pompous horrible thing a wretched
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mistake in retrospect that seems a bit
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harsh
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although kuru's work before jazz had
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been highly and universally acclaimed
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and he was at the peak of his powers as
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a guitarist
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singer and producer his record still did
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not settle particularly well
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there was also his 1976 tour which had
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resulted in showtime but ended in
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catastrophe cuda recalled in an
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interview from 1981 that band members
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relatives were dying musicians were
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falling ill and he added we had a bus we
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couldn't pay for so we lost it and we
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had to drive cars which would break down
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in the snow i was sick for two years
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after that exhausted
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debilitated demoralized i believed in it
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and i thought it was going to happen it
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was so great who could not like it but
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it turned out that very few people did
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like it those were dark days a change of
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direction was needed and this arrived
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with this next album bop till you drop
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released in 1979 it's an almost entirely
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electric affair with rhythm and blues
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soul and rock and roll songs from the
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50s and the 60s it sounded more current
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and suitable for mass consumption with
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covers of songs made famous by the likes
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of elvis presley and icantina turner the
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album also was the first ever major
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label release recorded to digital
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a 3m multi-track machine at warner
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brothers recording studios in north
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hollywood
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legendary engineer lee hershberg was
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behind the controls he had worked with
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kudo on several albums and suggested
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that the at the time groundbreaking move
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to all digital
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in an interview in billboards soon after
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the album's release cuda said no one
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knew what would happen but the
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difference was incredible over the big
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studio speakers and once we heard it
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there was no question it's very dramatic
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especially on drums because of the peaks
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lows and highs for guitars you get this
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real finger chord skin sounds on vocals
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you can really hear the edge i'll never
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go back to 24 analog again
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cuda also mentioned that the tape
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recorder occasionally ate an entire drum
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part in an early indication of some
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early digital pitfalls perhaps he was
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slightly blinded by the novelty of
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digital because he did
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record to analogue again and over the
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years the album has received criticism
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for sounding sterile and lifeless
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however today the album still sounds
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fresh and clear and far better than many
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digital records made soon afterwards
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despite of or perhaps because of cuda
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trying to be more accessible bob tilly
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drop contains some of his greatest work
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from his cover of presley's little
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sister
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to the gorgeous lilting guitars in the
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instrumental i think it's going to work
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out fine
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most outstanding is another prize winner
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in the great titles category
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the very thing that makes you rich will
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make me poor which apparently was
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written by an unknown memphis taxi
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driver who cuda had met by accident it
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became one of the defining songs of
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cuda's solo career
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but you drop indeed turned out to be
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more commercially successful and little
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sister was a minor hit
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cuda redid the entire exercise with his
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next album borderline in 1980 which
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again mined 1950s and 60s rhythm and
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blues and rock and roll territory
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with some reggae and tex-mex influences
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thrown in borderline also saw him work
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with guitarist and singer john hyatt for
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the first time however the 3m digital
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sound on boardline was tinny and the
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choice of songs was not as inspired
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the album nevertheless contained another
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cuda live classic and great title
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contender crazy about an automobile
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every woman i know
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as well as the wonderful why don't you
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try me tonight
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in an interview in 1981 cuda commented
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on what could be called the pop phase of
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his career promoters don't book you
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because they like you they do it because
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there's good business to be done bop
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till you drop pulled me out of a weird
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hull it's crazy to make records nobody
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buys it's just a waste of time once you
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make a decision to cut a record you
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figure that there's a public gesture and
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you want to get the record out there
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with bop i finally did that it sold
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about 300 000 copies which is six times
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what the rest of them have ever sold
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it was just in the nick of time too
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warner brothers had a big blackboard and
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an eraser
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and a lot of names were suddenly
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disappearing cuda was at the top of his
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game in many respects and by now enjoyed
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worldwide guitar legend status in an
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interview around this time he explained
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that he possessed 50 guitars some of the
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main acoustic guitars he uses are a
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gibson roy smeck from the 1930s and
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1950s martin triplo 18 a gibson sj 200
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attack amini j 15e
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a k craft
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a kona hawaiian guitar
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a vos flat top cutaway that has been
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turned into a mando guitar and a 1930s
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gibson master tone banjo
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kuda's electrics in those years included
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a 1967 daphne blue fender stratocaster
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tuned in open d and nicknamed cudacaster
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it was sold in 2020 with an asking price
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of a hundred and fifty thousand dollars
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he also plays a 1960 strat tuned in g
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a grech
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six one two zero
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a 1960s gaia tone lg 200t
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a 1949 gibson es9
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a ripley stereo guitar
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and a k semi-acoustic from the same year
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cuda uses amps by fender
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standell
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dumble
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highwat and others
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he plays with a variety of open guitar
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tunings and has gone on record stating
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it does not like the sound of new
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strings and so he tries to change the
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strings as rarely as he can in the early
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1980s things were seemingly going well
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with cuda's career but inwindly he was
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struggling with the role of front man
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and guitar hero and the pressures of
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commercial success he was wildly popular
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in several european countries for
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example selling out the hammerstein's
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odeon in london eight nights in a row
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and i went and it was amazing
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but when he returned to the us he was
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barely able to make a living cuda
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recorded two more solo albums as a
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leader during the 1980s the slide area
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in 1982 which he tried his hand at
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writing more of the songs with uneven
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results and get rhythm in 1987 on which
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he had a heavily distorted electric
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guitar sound the latter album contains
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three of his best ever recordings his
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amazing version of johnny cash's get
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rhythm his equally impressive and very
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funny all acoustic cover of chuck
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berry's 13 question method and the
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masterful across the borderline which he
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co-wrote with jon hyatt and jim
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dickinson
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the latter song contains one of the most
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soaring and evocative slide guitar solos
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but as time went on the pressures of his
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artist frontman guitar hero role and the
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difficulties of making a living from it
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became too much
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cuda would not release a solo album for
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18 years for unknown reasons he even
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refused to give permission for the
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release of an
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astonishingly good registration of a
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concert in santa cruz in 1987 by
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filmmaker les blanc called rykuda and
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the moola bander rhythm aces let's have
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a ball it was broadcast abroad on tv a
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few times and the audio on fm radio but
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it has since only been available as a
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bootleg
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years later cuda explained i gave up on
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pop music
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as far as the commercial entity as far
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as pop music goes i quit i absolutely
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threw in the towel i couldn't handle it
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i couldn't do it i couldn't be what they
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need you to be
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the record thing drove me insane i
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couldn't figure it out i finally had to
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stop making these darn solo records
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because they just didn't happen
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something was missing and commercially
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it was useless anyway pretty much
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non-viable
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for most of the 80s 90s and 2000s kudos
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career would therefore consist of a
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zigzag course in which he tried his hand
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at anything but being the front man and
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guitar hero part of his focus was on
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creating soundtracks for movies which he
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said made him far more money his
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soundtrack career had started in 1970
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with three tracks for the movie
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performance which starred mick jagger
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his next ventures were soundtracks for
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four movies by director walter hill the
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long riders in 1980 southern comfort in
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1981 the border in 1982 and streets of
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fire in 1984 his soundtrack for the long
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riders is regarded as a masterpiece that
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can be listened to by itself and stands
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up to his best solo work in 1985 cuda
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finally achieved household name fame
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with his haunting score for vin vendors
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road movie paris texas
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as the main characters travel through
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the american southwest with the movie
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following them at a very slow pace
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kuda's sparse ambient acoustic slide
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playing evokes the grandeur and
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stillness of the epic landscapes on the
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screen
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the film and the soundtrack were huge
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critical and commercial successes so
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it's a journey in in this guy's mind and
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and the story develops from that and
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that's what needs accompaniment
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and especially because he doesn't talk
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so you figure well if he doesn't talk
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does he hear anything and if he were to
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convert that into sound or melody this
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is what it is
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you take the little theme and each time
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it's a little more or it's a little
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different and it and the slightest
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00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:55,039
little nuance is going to push it this
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way or that way and harry dean's all on
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his face he's not using his voice for
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the first half so you don't have that to
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consider the audience has to
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somehow
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go with his pace and and and other
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things other than direct information
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like speak cuda's most striking next
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movie project was his score for water
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hills crossroads in 1986
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with the title and significant elements
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of the movie inspired by the story of
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robert johnson cuda played all parts
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performed by the movie's main character
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ralph marchio most famously in the
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guitar duel with steve ai only marchio's
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super fast bark inspired arpeggios
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toward the very end were performed by vi
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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kudo never was a guitar player who went
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for virtuosity or great speed
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over the next years kuda wrote the
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soundtrack to another eight movies most
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notably water hills geronimo and
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american legend in 1993 and vim vendors
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the end of violence in 1997.
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there's also a guest performances on
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albums by van morrison into the music in
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1979
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eric clapton money and cigarettes in
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1983
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john hyatt bring the family in 1987
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masterpiece
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00:28:15,360 --> 00:28:18,640
john lee hooker mr lucky 1991 another
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great one
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00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:22,799
aaron neville warm your heart in 91 and
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00:28:22,799 --> 00:28:25,120
many many more
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00:28:25,120 --> 00:28:28,320
1988 brought kuta his first grammy award
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ironically not for his stellar solo
646
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:32,799
career but in the best recording for
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children category for his music
648
00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:37,520
accompanying the storybook classic
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00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:40,240
pekka's bill narrated by robin williams
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00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:42,880
cuda did briefly try to resurrect his
651
00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:44,720
guitar slinger career with the
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supergroup little village in 1992
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together with john hyatt bassist nick
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00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:52,080
lowe and jim keltner however their
655
00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:54,080
self-titled debut album was not well
656
00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:56,880
received and the project folded for the
657
00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:59,279
most part cuda's 90s were taken up with
658
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three major collaborative projects with
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each more influential and high profile
660
00:29:04,559 --> 00:29:07,039
than the former the first was a meeting
661
00:29:07,039 --> 00:29:09,840
by the river released in 1993 which
662
00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:12,399
features kuda on acoustic guitar and
663
00:29:12,399 --> 00:29:16,320
vishwa mohan bart playing a mohan veena
664
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which is an arch top hawaiian guitar
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00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:22,320
modified for use in indian music with 20
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strings
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00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:25,120
in four instrumental tracks they are
668
00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:26,480
accompanied by
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00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:28,480
sukhvinda singh
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00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:31,919
naamdhari on tabla and kuda's son
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00:29:31,919 --> 00:29:34,159
joachim on dumbbell
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00:29:34,159 --> 00:29:36,240
the music is more or less a jam which
673
00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:38,960
took place in christ the king chapel
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saint anthony's seminary in santa
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00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:44,960
barbara it was recorded by kavi chandran
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00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:47,520
alexander waterlily acoustics label
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owner with all analog equipment a lot of
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00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:52,480
it designed and made by tim paris
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00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:56,480
vertini of esoteric audio research the
680
00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:58,080
album struck a chord and was
681
00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:00,399
exceptionally well received it earned
682
00:30:00,399 --> 00:30:03,039
cuda and bart grammy awards for best
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00:30:03,039 --> 00:30:05,360
world music album and is still regarded
684
00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:08,399
as a world music classic a year later
685
00:30:08,399 --> 00:30:10,559
kuda collaborated with legendary malayan
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00:30:10,559 --> 00:30:14,080
guitarist ali farka torre on talking
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00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:17,039
timbuk2 other musicians included
688
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clarence gate mouth brown on electric
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00:30:19,279 --> 00:30:21,440
guitar and viola
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00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:24,559
john patatucci on bass and again jim
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00:30:24,559 --> 00:30:26,960
keltner on drums in addition to his
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usual acoustic and electric guitars cuda
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00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:31,840
plays an array of instruments including
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electric mando guitar a large h-string
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00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:39,360
mandolin an acoustic toy guitar marimba
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00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:41,120
mandolin
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00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:44,799
kumbas a moroccan banjo and tambora an
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00:30:44,799 --> 00:30:47,279
indian sitar-like instrument talking
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00:30:47,279 --> 00:30:49,760
timbuktu is full of rolling rhythms and
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00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:51,520
intricate guitar work informed by
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00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:54,240
american folk and blues and torres
702
00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:57,120
malayan music cuda remarks the africans
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00:30:57,120 --> 00:31:00,320
don't have the melancholy blues not even
704
00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:03,519
in their bluesier bits ali's blues is
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00:31:03,519 --> 00:31:05,919
different in field and american blues
706
00:31:05,919 --> 00:31:07,519
but it's still got that expressive mode
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00:31:07,519 --> 00:31:09,519
between major and minor that comes from
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00:31:09,519 --> 00:31:12,399
the blues the stuff we call blues has
709
00:31:12,399 --> 00:31:14,799
been around for a long time talking
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00:31:14,799 --> 00:31:16,960
timbuktu was also a critical and
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00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:20,080
commercial success and again earned kuda
712
00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:23,200
a grammy for best world music album kudo
713
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:25,279
also collaborated extensively with
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00:31:25,279 --> 00:31:28,200
fellow guitarist david lindley and in
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00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:31,360
1995 with the chieftains on their album
716
00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:33,799
the long black veil but his most
717
00:31:33,799 --> 00:31:36,320
attention-grabbing and earth-moving
718
00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:40,240
project was buena vista social club
719
00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:43,279
which put cuban music on the world map
720
00:31:43,279 --> 00:31:46,080
the album was a result of a chance
721
00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:48,399
encounter with mostly elderly musicians
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00:31:48,399 --> 00:31:52,159
when cuda visited cuba in 1997 breaking
723
00:31:52,159 --> 00:31:55,360
the u.s trade and travel embargo the
724
00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:57,679
recordings took place over six days at
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00:31:57,679 --> 00:32:01,679
havana's eg rem studios which still
726
00:32:01,679 --> 00:32:03,840
looked exactly as it had done in the
727
00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:05,760
1950s
728
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:08,480
buena vista social club in 1997
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00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:11,200
contained traditional cuban music mostly
730
00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:13,039
in the trova and
731
00:32:13,039 --> 00:32:15,679
in genres enhanced with the sympathetic
732
00:32:15,679 --> 00:32:18,080
modern production by cuda who also
733
00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:20,799
played guitar it became a major hit
734
00:32:20,799 --> 00:32:22,640
selling over 8
735
00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:25,600
million copies worldwide
736
00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:28,399
and received countless accolades
737
00:32:28,399 --> 00:32:31,200
including the 1998 grammy award for best
738
00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:33,760
traditional tropical latin album the
739
00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:36,720
musicians involved including kuda went
740
00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:40,559
on a short world tour in 1998 which was
741
00:32:40,559 --> 00:32:43,440
immortalized by vin vanders in a movie
742
00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:46,559
that is also called buena vista social
743
00:32:46,559 --> 00:32:47,650
club
744
00:32:47,650 --> 00:32:50,739
[Music]
745
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:54,080
cuda's collaborations after these three
746
00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:56,320
major successes were far lower in
747
00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:59,519
profile among them were hollow bamboo in
748
00:32:59,519 --> 00:33:02,159
2000 with trumpeter john hassell and
749
00:33:02,159 --> 00:33:06,000
flautist ronald maddunda and
750
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:07,120
mambu
751
00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:12,080
sinuendo 2003 with cuba guitarist manuel
752
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:13,519
gulban
753
00:33:13,519 --> 00:33:16,480
which later earned him yet another a
754
00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:18,880
grammy award for best pop instrumental
755
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:21,519
album kudo also produced several records
756
00:33:21,519 --> 00:33:24,880
for cuban singer ibrahim farah who had
757
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:27,440
found fame through buena vista social
758
00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:31,840
club one of them buenos chamanos in 2003
759
00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:34,320
earned kuda his sixth grammy for best
760
00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:37,200
traditional tropical latin album finally
761
00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:41,120
in 2005 cuda took the solo album plunge
762
00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:44,080
again with chavez ravine
763
00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:45,840
it was a concept album about a
764
00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:47,760
mexican-american los angeles
765
00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:49,919
neighborhood that was destroyed after
766
00:33:49,919 --> 00:33:53,279
shady deals with developers musically it
767
00:33:53,279 --> 00:33:56,000
harks back to his earlier solo albums
768
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:58,960
with a mixture of mexican cuban latin
769
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:01,279
and traditional american influences
770
00:34:01,279 --> 00:34:03,360
three things are different though there
771
00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:05,600
are several featured singers and when he
772
00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:08,320
does sing cuda uses a different gentler
773
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:10,879
voice without his earlier swagger
774
00:34:10,879 --> 00:34:14,159
there's also hardly any guitar solos
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00:34:14,159 --> 00:34:16,960
chavez ravine was well received and cuda
776
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:19,760
released another four solo albums my
777
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:22,399
name is buddy 2007
778
00:34:22,399 --> 00:34:24,159
i flathead
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00:34:24,159 --> 00:34:28,480
2008 pull up some dust and sit down 2011
780
00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:31,919
and election special in 2012.
781
00:34:31,919 --> 00:34:34,639
these four albums cover social political
782
00:34:34,639 --> 00:34:37,359
topics with most or all tracks written
783
00:34:37,359 --> 00:34:40,320
by kuda and the music is mostly in a
784
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:43,040
faux folk style the albums again were
785
00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:44,800
critically acclaimed but less
786
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:47,200
commercially successful perhaps the
787
00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:49,520
absence of significant guitar sellers
788
00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:52,320
diminished their appeal with fans kuda
789
00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:54,879
has worked closely with his drummer some
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00:34:54,879 --> 00:34:58,160
joachim since the 1980s and they have
791
00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:00,400
been stories that joachim encouraged his
792
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:02,320
father to resurrect his classic music
793
00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:05,760
from his 70s and 80s solo records
794
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:08,960
and play solos again whether or not it
795
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:12,000
was due to joking or not cuda fans were
796
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:14,720
happily surprised by the great man going
797
00:35:14,720 --> 00:35:16,880
on tour again playing some of his older
798
00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:19,440
music this was documented on a live
799
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:21,839
album credited to raikuda and corridos
800
00:35:21,839 --> 00:35:23,200
formosus
801
00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:25,440
called live at the great american
802
00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:28,800
musical san francisco august the 31st to
803
00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:30,400
september the 1st
804
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:34,240
2011. in the same setting as kuda's 1977
805
00:35:34,240 --> 00:35:36,640
showtime album and with two musicians
806
00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:38,240
who were present at the time
807
00:35:38,240 --> 00:35:42,000
accordionist flacco jimenez and vocalist
808
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:44,640
terry evans cuda revives the good old
809
00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:47,200
days with spirited renditions of old
810
00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:50,320
favorites like crazy bout an automobile
811
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:52,160
every woman i know
812
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:55,200
why don't you try me and the dark end of
813
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:56,480
the street
814
00:35:56,480 --> 00:35:58,400
kuda junior did play a part in
815
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:00,560
convincing his father to make another
816
00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:03,040
studio album again more along the same
817
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:05,680
lines as his 70s and 80s solo albums the
818
00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:08,079
result was kuda's most recent solo album
819
00:36:08,079 --> 00:36:10,480
the prodigal son which again contains
820
00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:13,040
blues country and fortunes from the
821
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:15,040
earlier part of the 20th century and
822
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:17,359
contains more featured guitar playing
823
00:36:17,359 --> 00:36:19,920
than cuda's other 21st century solo
824
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albums
825
00:36:21,359 --> 00:36:23,119
whether kudo's career has come full
826
00:36:23,119 --> 00:36:25,760
circle or whether he has more pioneering
827
00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:28,400
projects in him remains to be seen but
828
00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:31,119
with 17 solo albums more than 20
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collaborative albums 17 soundtrack
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albums and countless guest performances
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on record there is an extraordinary
832
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amount of music to explore for any of
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you who are not familiar with his work
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all i can say is i've seen raikouda life
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and it is a spiritual experience
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i was blessed growing up in a house of
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um
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classical music jazz and some blues
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that i did know
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a lot of the blues
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artists that raikuda
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was inspired by but when i discovered
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raikuda and it was into the purple
844
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valley and bop till you drop with like
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the two big ones for me
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when i discovered those albums i was
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able to go back
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and find out even more and the great
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thing about raikuda is he doesn't just
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introduce you i mean obviously on
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bob tilly drop you've got little sister
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the big elvis presses you've got some of
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the more mainstream stuff but if you go
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through
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rikuta's catalogue
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i mean to say that he was a taste maker
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or
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it would be an understatement he as you
859
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heard me talk about he took songs
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from the
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turn of the last
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century and
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brought them into the mainstream and
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then they ended up being covered by huge
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rock bands like ub40 or big stars like
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bruce springsteen and now joe bonamassa
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this is a big deal rykuda
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i mean he's a national treasure
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for the americans watching this i mean
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he is so important to modern music i
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feel like he
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at times
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kept
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that kind of guitar playing alive in
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america it was so unfortunate in the 80s
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everything was all shredfest
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and that's fine don't get me wrong
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but
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anything that raikuda played on was just
880
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a breath of fresh air because
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he's not about virtuosity and
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shredding is about feel and emotion and
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melody and just one of the most
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beautiful guitar players that ever live
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and i love the fact that he makes top
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tens
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in greatest guitar players all the time
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by all over the place because people
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00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:51,520
realize just how important he is but i
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00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:52,960
think beyond his incredible guitar
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00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:54,960
playing songwriting singing production
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all of that stuff is the fact that
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he's the gateway to so many great
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musicians
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00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:02,880
kids today
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can discover raikuda
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and then look and be like who are all
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these players who are these covers of
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who are these artists and then just
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open up
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an incredible world of music of american
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music for over a hundred years raikuda
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thank you so much for doing that i got
904
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almost teary-eyed talking about this
905
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such an important musician such an
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important guitar player and it is
907
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fantastic without raikuda many many many
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people would never discover some of the
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greatest music ever made
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thanks ever so much for watching please
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give us any comments and questions below
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i would love to know other artists you'd
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love for us to talk about thank you ever
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so much paul tingan for working on this
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because
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i know paul is a huge raikuda fan so
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when he brought up doing raikuda to me i
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was like let's do it there is probably
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very very few guitar players
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that you can speak so lyrically about
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and oh god paris texas go put on the
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album paris texas now i remember buying
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it when it came out i
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get teary-eyed just remembering all my
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hairs are standing on end look at that
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was that being coming up in the light
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just thinking about that album go and
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listen to paris texas i implore you now
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thanks so long for well have we just
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done or voila goodbye63859
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