Steemit Open Mic WEEK 79 - Death Don't Have No Mercy

My entry for steemit Hive account@openmic Week 79. (if I've scraped in in time.) Ah shit I didn't mention Week 79 or my username!!

I'm posting in a hurry, so as soon as I've posted, to hopefully get in on time, I'll edit and fill in the text in the next half hour or so.

I don't know if it can be excused on this occasion. My head is a bit messy. My dear friend and fellow acoustic blues man/songster passed away unexpectedly on Wednesday, and I really wanted to sing this song in Tony's honour. If it can't be entered, of course rules is rules and I just hope that many of you will still find listening value. I don't know how I got through it with no tears, I only just held them back through the intro,which is rather long, a little drunken, yet very heartfelt'

I know everone tends to speak well of those who've passed, but in Tony's case, people all had the same opinion, a beautiful soul, wise and humble in nature, generous with a big heart, on top of being a really exceptionally gifted and tallented acoustic bluesman.

His motto for life was simple and sweet... "Pass It On", whether material things, wisdom or love.

We'd lost touch for a while until last year, and were so excited to find each other again, and we'd made plans to do some gigs this year together.

I'd like to apologise for the sound quality not being up to my usual standard. It's probably just me and my messy head, but I just couldn't get the audio track to sync at all. So I've gone with the camera's mic for this one. I might have to revert to Sony Vegas again for editing video, instead of Lightworks 14 free edition. Which is great apart from the syncing issues.... boo!

I'd like to add this further youtube vid of a recording I made of Tony playing Police Dog Blues, way back in 1999 at The Stamford Folk and Blues Guitar Festival, in the Juke Joint bar, where I was running an open mic.

Tony Jones - Police Dog Blues RIP my blues brother!!