To be a blues musician is to always have a dialogue with the past. Certain writers can write a song that sounds like it was done 40 years ago, but it’s deceptively hard.” ![]() You have to be careful how modern you get in your phrasing. “Blues has always been a pass-it-forward kind of thing,” says James. Now we have Miles to Go, in which James records nine new covers of his favorite artists (Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, Blind Willie Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Little Willie John, Robert Johnson, etc.) and adds two originals, “I Will Remain” and “40 Light Years.” When James set out to make Blue Highways, an album of blues covers recorded with his touring band, he always intended it to be the first of two installments. It also landed him one of his biggest hits: “Riding in the Moonlight,” a Willie Dixon song that James once covered when busking in the streets and subways of Toronto and Montreal that landed on a Spotify playlist garnering millions of streams. 1 on the Roots Music Report’s Blues Chart. Known as one of Canada’s best blues musicians, it wasn’t until Blue Highways that James found himself on a blues chart: the album spent 10 weeks at No. Future episodes will be pre-taped and uploaded to his YouTube channel between 3-4 pm Pacific Time on Tuesdays.Ĭolin’s most-recent album, Miles to Go, is his ambitious sequel to the critically-acclaimed 2016 CD, Blue Highways, and it continues James’ story with a collection of carefully curated songs handpicked from some of the greatest blues artists. The first episode features Colin working out on his Red Supro Res-O-Glass Folkstar guitar. ![]() Acclaimed guitarist Colin James launched his On the Couch with Colin James Guitar Tuesday YouTube series today.
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