Homegrown Folk music at its best!

Thank you so much man. I love music and love to sing and loved making this film. Keni is a wonderful guy and has a wealth of knowledge. Thank you so very much for looking at the film and for your moral support, means so much to me.

What moved me the most in this film was how Keni was able to play a guitar for Dopyera Jr. made by Dopyera's father. I mean basically 2 generations were bridged together in that room at that moment by a guitar and a song. What a wonderful moment for me and for Keni and Bill as well. So many other feelings I just don't know how to convey.

Awesome George. In my opinion, the video quality matches the subject matter. The blues is all about gritty, down to earth feelings and expressing those feelings with music. I think a slick, super HD format would take something away from it.

Just awesome I love the blues, I play blues harmonica enjoyed this very much!

@marshmelow

Жыл бұрын

Hi Warren, thank you so much for watching and for your kind words. I am so happy you enjoyed this film. Feel free to share the link too!

awesome documentary. thx for posting

Great documentary. Before I played them. I wanted the metal bodied, after trying them I preferred the wooden bodied biscuit cone. Mark knopfler says he regrets putting the national on the cover of Brothers in Arms, as it unrealistically inflated the price. Because people are buying them for ornaments. This forced me to look at more affordable brands. My friend who’s played nationals , says my Gretsch alligator sounds the same as a national. One day if I have enough spare money I’m going to buy a national. Resonator guitar is my favourite sound produced by the guitar. It’s a haunting mystical human voice vibration. Similar to fiddle or scratching a record. Big love and respect from Northern England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿☘️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸💚💛❤️🇺🇦

Brilliant, many thanks :)

I just reposted...every musician needs to see this...especially the blues people

Good stuff! Thanks!!!

Keni Lee is great !

i really enjoyed this thankyou

Great documentary on a great talent!

Incredible Keni Lee Burgess!

you are awesome thank you!

Thank you so very much!

Thank you so much!

Excellent film and musical performance

Excelent Documentary. One of the few i've seen I can watch over and over again!

this is amazing stuff been watching kenny videos several years ago since i discover youtube congratulations !

I thank you for this simple but informative vid. I am 62 and been playing guitar for years. I have discovered the joy of playing cigar box guitars about a year ago. I love these things so much, I have started building them and putting them on the market for sale. My company is called Panhandler Guitars because the body is a steam table pan, this is all I use. The necks and pickups are professionally built. I do the design and build myself. They are a blast to play and very easy to learn if you have a guitar background. I am very seriously thinking about busking here in Colorado and your input was eye opening. Thanks and Keep on Truckin

@marshmelow

7 жыл бұрын

Hi James, thank you very much for taking the time to view my film. Your guitar sounds awesome and would love to see/hear you play it. Have you posted any video of you playing your creation? Best, George

I can't begin to tell you how much I enjoyed every moment of this documentary ... Keni your a true talent and inspiration ... Thank you SO much for sharing this :)

Superb. This was sent to me by a musician friend. I learned loads! Thank you 👍

Fantastic!

@marshmelow

5 ай бұрын

thank you

don't know how I missed this, it was great viewing , thanks for posting ..

@marshmelow

10 жыл бұрын

Tony thank you sir for checking us out.

What a great reminder of our resonator blues heritage. With a busking history sidebar to boot! Cool - Thanks!

@marshmelow

9 жыл бұрын

Hi Bob, thanks for viewing, please repost.

@marshmelow

8 жыл бұрын

Thank you Bob for checking my film out brother.

Phenomenal Documentary. Thank you for doing this.

@marshmelow

9 жыл бұрын

T.J. thank you. Please share my film.

great!

good job...........really realy enjoyed it...... i've got the spirit

THANK you; thoroughly enjoyed it and learned some things about the instruments of my favorite music!

@marshmelow

8 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for checking out my film. I am glad you took away something from it as well.

hi thanks for the upload....this is a great film

@marshmelow

8 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much

Great job, Marshmelow! George, I really enjoyed it. JvV

What an amazing Doc.. I was blown away by this, this is some awesome footage..Thanks for making this!!!

@marshmelow

10 жыл бұрын

Rusty! Thank you so much for your kind words. I really want to submit this to film tests but because of copyright issues (Keni's cover songs) I feel there would be lots of red tape. :( I am glad you enjoyed this. Please repost :)

I have never heard of or seen one of these b4. The sound is really cool.

@marshmelow

10 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for viewing. Also visit this film on Facebook.

Hi George- very enjoyable film! The performances were great and fun to follow this wonderful musician along the streets of Manhattan. I am a photographer myself and honestly found the film quality fine, since I was so engaged with the fabulous music and sound which you captured so well. I especially enjoyed "meeting" the sun of the Dobro inventor!

Cool video!

Man, yuv done very nice work

@marshmelow

9 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching. Please share my film.

Best music documentary/video I have ever seen. Performances were outstanding. Interviews were outstanding also. Have been watching your playing on KZread for quite a while. I really like the production of this video. Its real sound, its like being there. I hate over-produced stuff, just like over-produced music. This is the real thing. Tough way to make a living. Thank you for all your hard work. Have a nice day.

@marshmelow

8 жыл бұрын

Hi Lighting Hopkins,Thank you for your detailed review and thanks for watching!

@marshmelow

7 жыл бұрын

Mr. Hopkins thank sir for your kind review and taking time from your schedule to view my film. I wish I had a better camera to film with but at the time, this was the best I could do. This is truly an independent film with the lowest of budgets. Kent Lee is a very talented and well versed musician and his participation gave the film a much better quality.Please keep in touch ok? look me up on facebook George Canzaniello

it was my pleasure. I had lots of making this film and was challenging as well. Thank you for your kind words. Please share the youtube link with your friends.

Hi StreetMusic! Thank you very much! Love your youtube name :) I tell ya, going to house and hearing the stories!!! Amazing! He's a smart and witty man.

I thought this was a great educational and historical video! You did a great job GC!

@marshmelow

8 жыл бұрын

Thank you James!

Absolutely LOVE this film! We've been making a busking documentary ourselves and are jealous of the angle you took on the subject. Keep up the great work!

@marshmelow

10 жыл бұрын

Wow! Thank you so much for your kind words and support. I have a couple more docs up my sleeve. I am sure your film is coming along great. If there is anything I can help you with such as providing some footage of Keni and the gang or getting some footage here in New York let me know. Do you have any samples of your film posted? Please keep in the loop and again, I'd be glad to help you with ideas, angles and such.

Great documentary. Kenni Lee's DVDs are what I'm using to learn the Cigar Box Guitar. He's a really good blues man and he replies to all comments on all of his videos. Lenni Lee captures the spirit as well as the sound of the blues. Don't feel bad about the quality if the video. It goes along with the spirit of the blues and especially hand made cheap cigar box guitars with only a few strings.

Master Kenni

...gran documento...extracta muy bien lo que es la guitarra en el blues !!! saludos desde Colombia.....por eso Muddy dice en una entrevista: si no sabe que es el BLUES es mejor que lo deje ahora.......

Not sure how I missed this video all those years ago considering I own an early National. Serial #315. Same green crinkle paint as yours, except the decades and juke joints have left it with only the paint on the back. Some put it in the late 20's, maybe 1930's, not sure. Nothing replicates the sound, I will go to my grave with this guitar. Well, not literally. :)

King Solomon Hill also played a bone slide back in the 1930s Mississippi Fred McDowell nicknamed Steakbone also played one till it broke Keni also plays one on some of his songs Nice job on the film I enjoyed watching it very informative and inspirational!

@marshmelow

10 жыл бұрын

:) Thank you for your feedback and checking out my film...glad you enjoyed.

Thank you so much for filming and posting this film! I loved it! I wondered if Keni makes decent money when he is busking? I was thinking of trying it myself in my home town. Thanks again for the awesome and inspiring film!

Hey there, thanks for your comments. sorry it so long to reply,

One of the best stories I've ever heard is from a friend of mine, he's 30 years older than me, and his late dad built two guitars, two Rickenbacker clones. One was given to him (his son) and the other was given to his best friend. So his best friend moved from town, took different directions in life, and now my friend searches for the second guitar to see if he can buy it. Number 001 and Number 002 xD I swear it's true, though I know hard to believe 'cause anyone on internet could write that...

👍😎

"Faking the Blues" better title.

@marshmelow

4 жыл бұрын

Seems you need to do some research and maybe stop trolling. Grow up.

Hi Penny, This is George the director/producer/camera man and editor. Thank you so much for viewing the film. I love Keni, he is truly a great well rounded guy. Please feel free to repost the link of this video anywhere and any way you can, Regards, George

The look on the black man's face at 3:08 is priceless.

Sounding like a blues evangelist with all of those Blind Willie Johnson songs.

Nice!...Thats a Hap Moore slide @ 30:30

@marshmelow

10 жыл бұрын

:) Thanks for watching

Good stuff. Should do another. Keni should pretend he’s blind. Prolly make more money. 🤣

@marshmelow

6 жыл бұрын

Something in the works with Mr. Keni Lee, stay tuned.

this is fantastic, all the way from Liverpool in the UK! Anyone aware of the song this guy plays after 1:09:47? Think he also plays the song in NYC subway in this documentary. I just love the line... "some people don't believe in religion they think it's all a fake, well i'm 'a here to tell you people it's as real as t bone steak..."

@marshmelow

9 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for viewing and leaving a nice comment. Please share my film.

dont forget to click the gear icon under the video to change the video quality :)

@ramiro martinez thank you Ramiro. Please share this link with your friends. Thanks again friend.

Can anyone tell me what tuning resonator guitar is usually tuned in for blues?

@ThomasRBowen-gq3jr

9 жыл бұрын

Open g open e usually

@ReverendBow

9 жыл бұрын

Thomas R. Bowen For a Resonator: Open G or Open D. The String tension is a bit high for an acoustic neck with normal acoustic gauge strings to go Open E

Clay ton Thank you for your comment but being a hypocrit is what you seem to do well in Blues are not just for black people . Music is an expression, a language, you my friend see things sadly in a black or white scenario. The musician in this film is paying tribute to the muaical greats of blues singers past. Feel free to make your own movie about your dream blues player.

15:56 was that heartbreak hotel?

This would have been a more watchable & enjoyable doc if there had been less performances. Keni may be a talented guitar maker & may be knowledgeable about guitars but he's not a very good blues musician. Clay ton is exactly right about his singing & performing.

Its" funny" how people just walk by without even a glance at someone whos playing great blues music. The same as how they walk by a drunk or beggar or handicapped person. To me its like theyre showing a huge emptiness in their life. Not a second for joy. Sad

This is a very interesting movie (video not film). I am a bit dismayed since you obviously know music and your subject is about music, you have poor sound. I mean off mike voice, bad sound balance from scene to scene (shot to shot also sometimes). Even if you did not have a competent boom man or the ability to do double system sound you could have improved things in post production. It is not so hard to do a cross fade. Not much you can do about the reverb of the voices when the mic was too far away but you could at least put in room tone when you cut to a title card. (You do know what room tone is?) Interesting doc but it could have been so much better.

@marshmelow

8 жыл бұрын

+arbeeex Hello and thank your advice. This was a digital film shot on an Canon XL2. Being this was a documentary, the sound was fine. The grittiness of the city subway and streets create a sound that is gritty and allows that forgiveness. I know what room tone is but I don't need room tone when I am in a room. I cannot use a room tone in a city subway, or in the streets, cutting away to a silent title card creates a focus on the text and it's has been done a many documentaries. Do I really need to hear trains in the background while a title card is up? We've already established where the subject is, no need for room tone. I couldn't use a boom, or lav mic. the sound from the trains is too over powering and more importantly, I wasn't supposed to be filming, a 600.00 permit is needed and this was a low budget documentary about a musician, who we hear fine, and could not draw too much attention so it was just me on camera and the musician. Again thank you for viewing.

Great docu, a lot of good and interesting, informative historical background; Keni Lee plays OK, but unfortunately, while he can belt-out a tune, he sure can't sing worth a damn ~ VERY annoying. The playing helps make up for it though.

I seriously thought this was a Spinal Tap type spoof. I'd pay that guy not to play, what do you call that?

@marshmelow

7 жыл бұрын

I'd say you have poor taste in music.

@marshmelow

7 жыл бұрын

Seems like you made your page just to comment on this film...shame on you.

@whatIdontSEE

7 жыл бұрын

Wait...do you hear that?...it's me not caring about your opinion. Thx

@marshmelow

7 жыл бұрын

I don't care what you care about. But you care about what I say because you replied.

@whatIdontSEE

7 жыл бұрын

The answer is debuskering. Laugh a little, it's free. Peace

this guy knows his stuff but aint no player!

@marshmelow

7 жыл бұрын

Teach us the ways master Jedi

@michaelluczak3019

5 жыл бұрын

True