I have a soft spot in my musical heart for slide guitarists. They are individualistic and each have their own unique sound.<\/p>\n
One of the current leading proponents of the slide guitar style is Dennis Johnson, who \u2013 with his backing band, The Mississippi Ramblers \u2013 has returned with their latest album Rhythmland. <\/em><\/p>\n What makes Johnson unique is while he has an easily identifiable sound, he is able to adapt it\u00a0to a number of varied styles. Whether it be touches of folk, rock, roots, Americana, or straight blues, he is able to add his slide guitar sound over and through their rhythms. His approach is interesting in that he approaches a song from the basic rhythms and builds his leads from there.<\/p>\n Nine of the ten tracks here are originals, and like any good blues artist\u2019s material, they deal with life\u2019s journeys through a story. The only non-original track is a unique interpretation of \u201cWalkin\u2019 Blues,\u201d which is enhanced by Johnson\u2019s 12 string dobro. A counterpoint to that track is the laidback acoustic performance on the jazz laden \u201cMy Love Is Here For You.\u201d<\/p>\n Johnson is one of those master musicians who many times floats under the radar to all but a select few blues and slide guitar aficionados. He is one of those guitarists who create the illusion of playing the rhythm and lead parts on the same guitar.<\/p>\n Rhythmland <\/em>is a creative piece of blues presented through the slide guitar sound. It is well worth exploring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":33270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[10059],"rating":[5615],"class_list":["post-45080","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-dennis-johnson-the-mississippi-ramblers","rating-rating-b"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45080"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=45080"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=45080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}