I love lyrics and acoustic guitar playing. Through a litany of limitations both mentally and physically I’m unable to emulate my heroes but I’ve never given up. Every once in a while I get inspirited to try harder, Striving not to lose the momentum I write posts here so I and others may revisit the inspirations and give thanks to those who have inspired us. (Forgive the prose, I’ve been reading Charles Dickens).

Today’s inspiration is brought to us from Chris Smither. Having spent some time in New Orleans myself I found “It’s What I Do” spoke to me and my habits of playing guitar for 2 years 25 times now. Check it out around the 7:53 mark of this video.

An added bonus was the discovery of Paste Magazine. Nice bonus.

Anyway, you might be wondering what all this has to do with blues. Well truth be told I moved on from pure blues a long time ago but the URL was too good to let go of. But I hear blues in Chris’s playing. In homage to that era and to prove I still have that to thank for inspiration check out the Chris Smither video at about the 25 minute mark for his take on blues as an inspiration.

Thanks for reading and thanks Chris for the awesome playing, lyrics and inspiration.