My musical work has been described to me (by others) as an interesting mix of styles resembling that of artists like Ry Cooder, David Wilcox, Mark Knopfler, Neil Diamond, Johnny Cash, Gordon Lightfoot, Jeff Beck and others. Wow!!! That's a spicy musical recipe. Well,...I'm truly humbled at the mere thought of any such remote comparisons to these musical giants. Personally I just think I sound like me,... whatever that is,... however, all those personalities have certainly influenced my playing and writing.
Indeed,...what is a musical style? That's such a subjective, elusive thing to describe. I'm not completely sure what it is other than it's a label (or labels) placed on us based on the work that has preceded us. Previous bars have been set and we chose to try to go ABOVE them or BELOW them. But I like to go AROUND them. It's not always necessary to try to jump that high,... or crawl that low. There will always be greater and lesser musicians than I,.... so why be up tight. I'll just try to do what I do as best as I can do it. Let's just have some gratitude and have fun with this music stuff and try to inspire each other for the short time we are here on this globe. Chances are only a few will remember us when we're gone, anyway. So piss on the egotistical crap. That's just silly. And for those few that DO remember me when I'm gone,... I would like those memories to be fond. But, that's up to ME to create. Somedays I'm not too sure how well I'm doing, though.
JW
http://www.jeffwyatt.com/
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