Jimi Hocking - Blue Guitar

Bitrate:320K/s
Year:1999
Time:46:47 
Size:107,8 MB 
Label:Self-Released 
Styles:Aussie Blues  
Art:Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Brand New Radio - 4:11
 2. Bitter Tears - 5:29
 3. Blues is my Boss - 2:25
 4. The Golden Rule - 4:28
 5. My Way or the Highway - 4:29
 6. My First Car - 2:53
 7. School Fool - 2:17
 8. Nothing to Prove - 4:14
 9. My Idea of Fun - 3:43
10. A Little Like Me - 3:39
11. The Most Beautifool - 2:41
12. Daydreamin' - 3:47
13. Trouble - 2:24

Australian Guitarist Jimi ‘the human’ Hocking has been recording & performing music since 1980. He is a member of The Screaming Jets since 1993, & his own band Jimi the Human & Spectre 7.
He also performs as a blues artist. 2005 winner of the International Blues Challenge in Memphis USA.
 Jimi plays electric & acoustic guitar & Mandolin.

"....Blue Guitar is a DIY album I made at the end of the 1990’s after my (temporary) departure from The Screaming Jets. I was at the end of a divorce and flat broke. I had some modest recording gear and apart from the drums and some harp, I recorded everything in my flat in Elwood Victoria using a borrowed Rhode microphone, playing guitar into a little Goldentone amp situated in the cupboard.It was challenging do do it like this and the album has many flaws. I pretty much didn’t know a single person who thought making a Blues album was a good idea at the time. The Blues scene was not as established as it is now, and I recall a gentleman who did some bookings for me refer to the idea as ‘professional suicide’. I still cringe at the sound of my voice when I hear myself sing blues, I wish BB Kings voice would emanate from my vocal chords. Instead a skinny white boy from the suburbs comes out. But I enjoyed this labour of love, and beyond the fact that I had no budget and no high quality production, this is a very real album of rootsy ideas at a time when I couldn't even 'drop in' to fix recording blunders. However, it opened new doors for me. Both the Blue Guitar and the Blue Mandolin albums were projects I just ‘wanted to do’, and in many ways I like the fact that my personal history is littered with projects of that nature. My night mare would be to look back on my musical history and see a bunch of fashion driven pop releases that dated a month after they were released (no offence intended to pop artists). My sister often joked… “What about a Blue Bouzouki album, or a Blue Sitar album?” … my response … “hold my beer” ;-)...."

Blue Guitar