I wrote to Jesse Ferguson asking him if there was any video of him playing a whole set. He seemed to indicate that there wasn’t. It’s remarkable. He has released four albums and he is incredibly talented, but he appears to only partially support himself from performing. That’s not a slight. One of my all time favorite bands (and probably the best punk band ever), Minutemen, did music part time. But it is sad that someone of such talent isn’t a bigger deal. Of course, he’s young and I’m sure he will only become more beloved over time.
He must also do teaching, because he has a number of instructional videos online too. I watched his video on bar chords. It was interesting, because I learned bar chords just over the course of long and painful failures. But he really systematized it. A couple of time while watching it I thought, “Oh, that’s why I do that!” This is particularly interesting given that in most things, I am the king of systematization. But clearly, not in music. I suspect he is a good teacher.
So given that I don’t have a set to offer you, I will go along with his suggestion and present one of his playlists. I’ve decided to go with his 21 Original Songs playlist. But I do wish he would get someone to shoot a 20 minute set at one of the festivals he plays at.
Afterword
Here is the list of the other songs we’ve featured this week:
We also featured him previously: Go Tell Aunt Rhody.
And as I mentioned, he’s released four albums:
Google – best concert ever
Thanks. No comments on the new rewrite function in the comments?
Haven’t tried it yet… haven’t made a typo without catching it first.
The top of the results for googling “best concert ever” is a link to Jonathan Coulton’s concert in San Francisco in Feb 2008…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YMcqNc4nSY
It’s not like I asked you to Google santorum.
Tried the edit — works fine. In a “Beat the Clock” sort of fashion.
I did Google it. I’ll listen to it later. Glad the edit thing works. I don’t use it so I’m just interested to know that it does.
Yes, you have only five minutes. But it allows you to see if you’ve left any open tags and such.
I might do Coulton next week. And by “next week” I mean the week after, since I’m always ahead.