User:JoJo M Taylor

Hello, I was born in South America in Peru, My younger brother and I moved to The US in 1958 , but a few years before our leaving on a saturday afternoon my mother and our nanny took me to the open market and as we approched the main gate there was a blind guitarist playing for tips and I asked my mother if I could stay and watch and very relantly she agreed and she left me with the nanny , for about an hour I became so spiritually intoxicated that I knew that that's what in wanted to do for the rest of my life, before leaving I ask my mother for some money and just as I was placing the money into his hat his right index finger poked me in the middle of my forehead, just between my eyes we were all very surprised because he was a blind man ! The sound coming out of the musical instrument transformed my life forever more and that's how I became a musician. My instrument of choise is the guitar and my main gender is the American blues ! I have been a guitarist for nearly 50 years. In my early years I played acoustic guitar due to the fact that I Performend as a single Act and not with other musicians, I became attracted to such artist as Bob Dylan , Ry Cooder , Jerry Jeff Walker , and many other "Folk" style artist. As I grew older and starded to play in bands I found that liked such groups as The Rolling Stones rather then The Beatles due to were The Stones were getting there style which sprang from Keith Richards studying The Blues ! I read once in some magazine Richard quoting * Who was the other musician in Robert Johnson's 28 recordings ... As time passed due to my own personal life Traumas I found The Blues were a way of expressing my pain then all of my time was devoted to studying the work of American Born Blues Musicians ! Oddly Enough I began with Pianist Ray Charles. Then as Richard Keith I Learned all of Robert Johnson's recordings by memory, it was " NO " easy task since Robert had some very obscured tunings ! Then I moved on to many other Blues Artist, I foumd that I could relate to James Elmore first, since He was the king of the Open D Tunning and used an acoustic guitar with a make shift electric pickup ! Then Came other artist Such As Muddy Waters, Albert King , Freddy King and B.B. King ! It wasn't Till My Early Thrities Until I Was Introduce To Great Blues Musicians World Wide !