"Stella Blues" genre: Classic Rock
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	This song made it to number #1 in the UK Classic Rock chart in January 2002. Listener comment: "Think Joe Walsh, Spirit, Stones. Nice driving slide guitar work by Jack Hassall on this instrumental piece." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Listener comment: (extract from GodsOfMusic review) ... Stella Blues in particular was one I found very pleasing. Jack Hassall has some really nice chops. Playing for over thirty years will do that for a guy, I suppose. In this case, Jack draws heavily from the rock and blues roots he was into during the late, late 60's. That he is from England tends to show in his nods to the Thin Lizzy type of guitar riffs, while a touch of Electric Light Orchestra just graces the idea behind the arrangement and slide guitar work. Add in a tad of the kind of production you might hear from Lindsay Buckingham and you have got a pleasant little piece of music ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jack says .. this song was written in the early 80's and was hurled down on to my 4 track cassette portastudio. It then lived in a cardboard box until just before Christmas 2000. I'd always liked this tune and once again took the opportunity to see what it might turn out like recorded on the new 16 track. The result is what you hear. This song also took around a month to record - just to get the crash cymbals to sound convincing probably took me a couple of days. I was going to play some blues harmonica on this and include a big-time slide guitar solo in the middle eight but I decided not to. Because I'm a player - not a singer - I'm hoping that what I'm trying to do is to be abstract - not having these things leaves lots room for other things to happen, such as moving images or dialogue, for example. Hope you like it anyway!!
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	Story Behind the Song Listener comment: (extract from GodsOfMusic review) ... Stella Blues in particular was one I found very pleasing. Jack Hassall has some really nice chops. Playing for over thirty years will do that for a guy, I suppose. In this case, Jack draws heavily from the rock and blues roots he was into during the late, late 60's. That he is from England tends to show in his nods to the Thin Lizzy type of guitar riffs, while a touch of Electric Light Orchestra just graces the idea behind the arrangement and slide guitar work. Add in a tad of the kind of production you might hear from Lindsay Buckingham and you have got a pleasant little piece of music ... Jack says .. this song was written in the early 80's and was hurled down on to my 4 track cassette portastudio. It then lived in a cardboard box until just before Christmas 2000. I'd always liked this tune and once again took the opportunity to see what it might turn out like recorded on the new 16 track. The result is what you hear. This song also took around a month to record - just to get the crash cymbals to sound convincing probably took me a couple of days. I was going to play some blues harmonica on this and include a big-time slide guitar solo in the middle eight but I decided not to. Because I'm a player - not a singer - I'm hoping that what I'm trying to do is to be abstract - not having these things leaves lots room for other things to happen, such as moving images or dialogue, for example. Hope you like it anyway!! Lyrics instrumental rock 'n roll Stella Blues

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