In this thread here:
http://www.allthelyrics.com/forum/sh...d.php?t=157157
I talked about a great song about a very famous composer and bouzouki player:
Μπάρμπα Γιάννη - 1972
http://www.stixoi.info/stixoi.php?in...&song_id=14978
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3yU_HJMI_4
And it made me think about how we always tend to talk about composers, lyricists, and singers but never about a particular bouzouki player unless he happens to be a composer or lyricist or singer also.
And that's not really fair.
To see why, consider this song (Glenti 101.1 FM 405AM Xanthi time 25 December):
Συ μου χάραξες πορεία - 1971
http://www.stixoi.info/stixoi.php?in...s&song_id=1838
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_BYMLQ7o88
If you listen carefully to the version in the youtube cut I linked to here, you'll hear that at 1:16, 1:32. 1:59, and 2:16, the bouzouki player plays just two isolated notes. (He also plays them at 0:32 and 0:48, but not as clearly, as if he was trying them out first, to see if they would work well or not.)
Just two notes
But those two notes are pure genius, each time he plays them.
And therefore, I think that whenever we post a rebetika or neorebetika song that we think is really good, we should either mention the bouzouki player if we know him, or make sure in the post to ask Duffy if he can check his library and see who was playing bouzouki on the cut.
So that's exactly what I'm going to do right now - I'm going to ask ask Duffy.
Duffy - in this cut
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_BYMLQ7o88
who is playing lead bouzouki?
Who is the genius who is playing those two notes?