Introduction and explanation of me and my blog.

Roofless not ruthless or maybe both?! 

Hello planet earth. My name is Paul. This though is the blog of my alter ego the new bluesman on the block Roofless Paul. I say alter ego but I mean stage name because I definitely am he and all I sing about is stuff that happened to me so you see. I'll start again. I'm Paul and I play the blues. This blog is about how I am managing to wright a bunch of songs so I can take advantage of my birthday present which was 10 hours in a decent studio with a good producer. Black Sabbath took 8 hours recording their first album and had an eight track studio and I think they nailed it. Buddy Holly's first record included a drum kit made up of pots and pans and boxes. Again, nailed it. 
In many respects mine will be simpler as on at least half of the tracks I will be sitting on a stool in the middle of the studio with a microphone somewhere in front of me and it'll be just me and my guitar a pick and maybe a metal or glass tube. So in theory that's one track. Also hopefully minimal production as well because I believe I have a voice and I've worked hard on my guitar skills for this. 

Now first and foremost I'd like to clear something up for those of you thinking "anyone can play the blues" first you are a moron, secondly technically delta blues is nothing short of a pain in the ass to get down and even I who rarely has to resort to tablature or a you tube teacher had to do just that. Just to get the ball rolling of course. Then, my moron friend. there's the bit you can only know by having the shit kicked out of you by life over and over and just when you think you are turning a corner life swiftly kicks you in the bollocks a few times for good measure. It is on the good side of this phenomenon you find me now and in the knowledge about what it means to have the blues. When it gets so bad all you can do is pick up your guitar and play what you feel with all you got left inside. For example When you hear Robert Johnson sing love in vain you can see him sitting at the station, the train is chugging away with the women he truly loves and singing exactly what had just happened to him. If you get what I'm saying then I feel your pain brothers and sisters if you don't get it I truly hope you never do. "some people say that the lonesome blues ain't bad, it's the worst most feeling I most ever had" Robert Johnson again there from "If I had possession of judgment day" or "walking blues + as I call it. 

Anyone can be a bona fide blues artist it's not where you hail from it's how you got there and how do you feel about it all. That's basically what I am trying to get accross. The reason for this is down to some of the looks I get when I say that I play the blues, not a frown not a smile but a kind of half smiling vacant look that says "yeah OK white boy".

Even though Not only white but English and from my neck of the woods guitarists such as Eric "Clapton is god" Clapton and Peter "Peter Green is God" Green. As they both where known as in the sixties. There are many more but right there are arguably the two greatest blues guitarists/vocalists that ever walked the planet and on a personal note Peter Greens voice gives me chills every time I hear it. So should I be taken seriously people. Well one thing I know is I've had it many times harder than the pair of them though it wasn't all roses for them I admit. So I'm probably more qualified in the trials and tribulations department and I have been playing the guitar although not constantly since I was thirteen and I am now a youthful forty and I am currently wearing a bandage and tube grip on my wrist and can't play for two weeks purely because I have been on an intense learning curve to get the most from my studio time and because I absolutely love to play the blues. So I think I have the dedication thing down. I know what you are thinking. "still doesn't mean you are any good though". 

and you'd be absolutely right after all I May be tone deaf for all you know. 

I assure you I am not tone deaf in fact I'm not too distantly related to the late Sir Michael Tippet you conducted and composed for the London philharmonic Orchestra. He was known for being avant garde in his works and championed those less fortunate than he even to the point of being incarcerated at her majesties pleasure. (the same majesty that knighted him.