Quarantine Blues (live May 29 2020)
Channel: Hendrik Gideonse
Date: 2020-05-30

"Quarantine Blues" is inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic and explores not being able to be with someone you love.  I have been forced to make music alone or with family during this stay-at-home time. While it has been very challenging, it has also been a period of some intense song-writing. I am working on getting back to simple songwriting focusing on blues influences with a little 70's country influence. I am playing a Martin 000-16RGT with rosewood sides and back. For strings, I have 13's tuned down a step to Eb. This song is part of my Break Blues project where I am exploring my hip hop and blues influences, but obviously this is solo acoustic and not drawing from hip hop at this point. The skeleton in the background is a porple torpoise, a magical sea creature with the head of a loggerhead turtle and the body of a harbor porpoise.