Joel's Blueseum
Page 2 - Michael Pickett Comes to Play
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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