SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2017
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Delta Blues master Walker T. Ryan offers workshop Country singer Jessie Leigh
to perform at casino
Walker T. Ryan is offering
moved to New York City and
his popular Mississippi Delta
Blues Slide Guitar workshop
on Sunday, Oct. 1, from 1 to 4
p.m., at 4995 Lake Dr. in
Florence.
The workshop is designed
for guitar players who want to
learn to play in the classic style
of the Delta blues.
All that is needed is a guitar,
a slide, a recording device and
paper.
Class size is limited to eight
players, so personal attention
and an intimate atmosphere is
guaranteed.
Players do not need to be
professionals or even advanced
to participate.
Participants should just have
a basic working knowledge of
the guitar and the desire to
learn Delta blues style of play-
ing.
Ryan uses Robert
Johnson’s
classic
song,
“Walking Blues” as a teaching
tool.
Ryan takes this quintessen-
tially Delta tune and works it
from the ground up.
The master musician shows
the students how to get to the
bone and the meat of the
rhythm and chords, and then
he found himself immersed in
the pre-hippie folk scene of
Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger,
and Dave VanRonk.
Ryan was bitten by the blues
bug when he was exposed to
the music of Sonny Terry and
Brownie McGhee, Lightnin’
Hopkins, Son House and Fred
McDowell.
He has been a rambler most
of his life and has played the
blues in bars, dives, churches,
on the streets, bakeries and bor-
dellos — basically wherever
there was a gig.
When he moved to Eugene
in the ’90s, in addition to play-
ing the blues, he worked with
at-risk kids.
Ryan still plays every day
and makes regular trips to
Clarksdale Mississippi. He is
essentially retired from the
stage and spends his time
working on musical projects.
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Cost of the workshop is $50
Eugene native and widely acknowledged Delta Blues mas- and is limited to 8 players.
ter, Walker T. Ryan, will be giving a rare workshop for
Contact Ryan at wtryan@
indiciduals interested in learning the classic blues style. gmail.com to reserve a place or
to get more information on this
spice it up to make it more than master of the Delta blues. He rare opportunity to study with a
just the notes.
started playing guitar as a folk master of the form.
Ryan is well regarded as a singer and when his family
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Jessie Leigh, who performs country music among other
genres, will be performing at Blue Bills Sports Bar.
Three Rivers Casino Resort
will be presenting Jessie Leigh
at the Blue Bills Sports Bar
and Tap Room on Friday, Sept.
29, and Saturday, Sept. 30,
from 9 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.
Although her main genre is
country, the songs on Jessie
Leigh’s debut album are influ-
enced by a variety of musical
styles that appeal to a wide
range of music lovers.
Blue Bills is located inside
Three Rivers Casino, located
at 5647 Highway 126.
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