"You got that Seattle soul, kid," the man said. "Where’d you learn to swing like that?"
The year was 1994, and the local music shop felt more like a cathedral than a retail store. Nestled between a dusty stack of classical scores and a bright yellow "Dummies" guide sat a heavy, glossy book: . Hal Leonard. Jimi Hendrix - Blues (Guitar Songb...
Fast forward ten years. Leo was playing a blues club in Chicago. The air was thick with sweat and the smell of old wood. During his solo, he leaned back, eyes closed, and hit a double-stop bend that hung in the air like smoke. After the set, an old-timer walked up to him. "You got that Seattle soul, kid," the man said
He spent two weeks on a single page of "Voodoo Chile." His mother grew tired of the repetitive, distorted wailing coming from the garage, but Leo was deep in the " Hendrix Zone." He learned that the blues wasn't about speed; it was about the space between the notes. The book taught him that a slight tug on the G-string could express more than a thousand scales. Fast forward ten years