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Taken from L.A. Jones official website: L.A. Jones is an entertainer in the business of show-biz. Over the years L. A. Jones has honed these entertainment skills to a razor sharp edge, bringing down the house using dynamics reminiscent of the mind-boggling technique of Buddy Guy or the note economics and soul-searching feel of his hero, B.B. King . In addition he uses many different tunings on as many different guitars (both right and left-handed) that keep people talking and musicians fighting among themselves. There is not a gig that L. A. Jones plays without some pleased patron commenting on left handed guitarist L. A. Jones’ ability to effortlessly switch between left and right handed guitars and play either with equal facility and at the same time produce totally different and totally incredible sounds and styles. This is something that NOBODY, but nobody, else in the business does. Check out L.A.’s full bio.
L.A. Jones jamming on a right handed vintage ’62 Fender Strat!
Previous Podcasts:
- Podcast 3: Interview with Luke Mulholland
- Podcast 2: Interview with Tallan ‘The T-Man’ Noble Latz
- Podcast 1: Interview with Anthony Contreras
Show Notes
- 1. W.C. Handy Award
2. Elvis Presley
3. B.B. King
4. L.A. Jones and the Blues Messengers
5. Willie Dixon
6. Chicago Blues
7. Albert King
8. Gibson Flying V
9. 1962 Fender Stratocaster
10. 1964 Fender Super Reverb Amp
11. 1964 Fender Princeton Amp
12. 1965 Gibson 335
13. Guitar Luthier
14. Joe Bonamassa
15. Buddy Guy
16. Otis Rush
17. Albert’s special tuning
18. Enrico Crivellaro
19. Vincenzo Barattin
20. Bill Stuve
25. Live in Austria CD “Man Alive”
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September 16th, 2009 at 3:44 pm
Pretty sure that Hendrix was known to do that on occasion as well… If I remember right, the first time he met Clapton he just flipped the axe and played it as it was… but I could be wrong.
September 17th, 2009 at 12:08 am
Jacob – You are right, I have also read that Hendrix could play this way and no reason not to believe it. Funny enough I took lessons from a lefty guitarist and he would grab my guitar sometimes and play it so it’s obviously something most left handed guitarist have dabbled around with. Now Jimi was known for normally rearranging the strings on his right-handed strat to play like a lefty. In the podcast LA Jones also talks about how most lefties know how to play a “righty” out of necessity. What’s really cool to me is when you listen in the podcast to the skill that LA Jones serves up when playing his guitars either way (right or left handed) and its pretty damn phenomenal.