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No?
Never mind then.

This is an old favourite, of course.
I did this way back in… I can’t even remember.

All I can recall was that
I was so surprised that I was able to do it.
Also I was feeling all the Guitar notes at the end.

That’s one thing about me playing.
The notes I hit comes from how I feel that day,
at that particular moment.

I can never repeat them.
If I want to play it exactly the way I recorded it,
I have to study it.
Which in effect, loses its feeling for me.

I don’t like forcing the music to come out of me.
I don’t like to beg for it either.
Whatever needs to come out, will come out.
Much like when I eat this third bag of chips
It’s going to come out soon enough.

:Voice and all instruments by – Ty Martell

Click here for Lyrics.

Let me introduce my new girl.

She really caught my attention when I walked into the music store.
I don’t have a name for her yet, but I am certain that we are going to make a lot of happy memories together.

The other night I had a dream.
It was all kinda blurry,
but one thing I do remember,

I was in a restaurant, having dinner with people I don’t even know.

I was feeling kinda bummed out about everything.
You know, just one of those feelings where,
nothing ever goes right
and something always seem to turn out wrong.

I always thought that life wasn’t fair,
and it just seems that you go through life more frustrated.

So, in my dream, I went to the restaurant’s washroom for a tinkle.
As I do my business, looking down (as you do),
I heard these two men enter.

The first guy was assisting the other, holding his arm.
And then I recognized who the other person was.

Out of excitement, I shouted “T-BONE?” “T-BONE WALKER?”

T-Bone Walker, The Godfather of Blues.

I am not very familiar with his songs,
but I know him from my guitar magazine collections.

He said, “Yup. you got that right, sonny boy. I don’t get recognized that often.”

As he uses the urinal beside me,
(and I did not mind the “One urinal space rule” between men in the washroom)

I said, “Are you kidding? you are one of the pioneers of Blues guitar!”

He smiled, and said,
“You know, I did not make it rich, or very popular.
The benefits of my career are far long gone.
But one thing I should tell you,
It was one hell of a ride. Oh yeah, I lived it to the fullest.
I am very happy. No regrets.
You gotta live it too.”

Then he smiled, and left.
Then I woke up.

How bizzare was that?
And why T-Bone Walker?

Then I realized, that when I write an email to my friends,
I sometimes sign it as TBONE, or TMAN.

And what an advice.
I guess someone, or something is trying to send me a message.

“Life” is what you make it.
No one is going to live it for you.

But you know what really made me happy?
As much as I was amazed that T-Bone Walker talked to me,
Good thing we didn’t shake hands.

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“Let your hair down, baby, let’s have a natural ball/
‘Cause when you ain’t happy, life ain’t no fun at all.”
– T-Bone Walker, “T-Bone Shuffle”
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