Watch the video for working blues song “One Wicked Mother.”
Author: Brant Buckley
Brant Buckley
Brant Buckley is a Berklee College of Music graduate, songwriter, and guitar teacher with a passion for both creating and sharing music. He is also a published writer and a professional tennis instructor, blending artistry and discipline in all he does.
ABS contributor, guitar teacher, and singer-songwriter Brant Buckley gets in-depth about teaching creativity through chord construction, pentatonic scales, techniques, dynamics, and feel
“I think of myself more of a designer and artisan rather than a reverse engineer. It is very gratifying to understand what a musician is asking for and give them the feel or the sound or whatever they are looking for.”
“If you are talking about blues, radio is super important. Some of those DJs have been doing shows for twenty to forty years and they’ve a devoted listenership.”
You can hear the Delta in the most clean and precise kind of way from a guitarist who is always in control when he plays
“I wrote or co-wrote every song on the album, which is somewhat of a chapter in my life story.”
“Radio is theatre of the mind. As an on-air person, you have to create the pictures that people are going to see in their mind as they are listening on the radio… The blues is as important as any artform.”
“Mixing is all a balance of combining the technical and creative.”
“The recording process is new to me and something that I just experienced. I want to keep recording going forward and I would love to release a full length album by the end of 2021.”
“The main reason I started recording was to record myself. I wasn’t trying to become a recording engineer or a producer at the time. Once we started to do it, it became my job and career.” – Scott Herzog