Blue Monday - Rick Franklin interviewed, Piedmont picking explained. Live blues backups and more

In today's livestream:
We’re welcoming Rick Franklin, the Arlington, Virginia resident, one of the most prominent blues musicians within the Piedmont fingerpicking style.
Rick’s musical style of blues is identified with such legendary players as Blind Blake, Blind Boy Fuller and William Moore along with players and friends like “Bowling Green” John Cephas, John Jackson, and Archie Edwards.

Also today:
Frequently Asked Questions about tech - ask us anything regarding amplification of acoustic guitars, Rick will tell you about his Tricone resophonic guitar and how it's amplified.

Live blues backups as usual.

Welcome with more of your questions, hit me up on Twitter @homesickmac

Prior to watching my Blue Monday Livestreams every Monday at 9pm CEST which is:
12pm PST / 2pm CST / 3pm EST / 8pm GMT (London) / 7am AEDT (Sidney), watch this video:

- I'm explaining here how to tune your guitar to Open G and Open D tunings
- Learn the basics of fingerpicking technique - alternate bass playing
- Learn the basics of slide technique

This video is very basic and I'll be uploading more detailed content about each of the techniques mentioned later on. The topics in this video are meant to prepare you for my livestreams where I'm using standard tuning, Open G, Open D, I'm playing slide and fingerpicking.
The whole idea of BLUE MONDAY Livestreams is to provide solid and professional live backup to your soloing, maybe just hanging with my rhythm, chord shapes and learning as we go.
I'll always be explaining what and how I played, there are several sections during the one hour livestream:
- Solid backup for your guitar playing (in every livestream)
- Artist in focus (in selected livestreams)
- Lick Of The Week (explained in detail)
- Special guests (in selected livestreams)
- Q&A

Blue Monday Livestreams:

Most of the guitars Homesick Mac is playing are made by the master luthier Michael Sandén:

Homesick Mac's slides made by:

Recommended (affiliate link):
Homesick Mac (Dragan Ruzic - Macan) is an acoustic (for the most part) guitarist and singer born in former Yugoslavia, now living in Sweden.
I run annual Guitar Retreats for "non-guitarists" at the island of Ven in southern Sweden.
(Please observe that the dates aren't accurate due to the web hosting problem - the general info about the Retreat is correct though)

[simson]

Thank you again, Mac, for an inspiring Monday. Rick Franklin is really a cool cat, I went to all his masterclasses at the Blues Week.