New Music Store

Sep 7, 2020 | Blog, Christopher J Music, Front Page Post

Hey people, I’m excited to announce that after a LOT of work, my old music store has been rebuilt into the NEW music store.  You can check it out here.  Some cool new features are the ability to filter songs by genre, e.g. “rock” or “blues”, etc.  plus you can sort the list in various ways.  As before, you can still pay totally securely through PayPal.  My site has nothing to do with your payment other than sending you to PayPal.  If there are other features that you would like to see, let me know.

CJ Music Store Screen Shot

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New Music Monday

Aug 26, 2020 | Blog, Christopher J Music

Last year…. I was into adapting classical music to the blues or putting blues into classical with my release of my newest CD, “Bluesy Bach & Friends”.

This year I have been getting into pure blues, especially electric blues and even more specifically as played by Albert King, Freddie King and BB King.  Already released this year are my covers of Freddie King’s “Key to the Highway” and “Hide Away”.  Next up to bat is Albert King.  And on August 31st my cover of AK’s cover of “Crosscut Saw” will be released.

Check it out:

So…..Many blues artists have contended with the “sinner or saint” struggle and started out in church and moved to the blues, or vice versa!  Use this form to Pre-Save “Crosscut Saw” to be the first to hear if this song is about a sinner or saint!

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Ringtone No. 3 for Key to the Highway

Jul 26, 2020 | Blog, Christopher J Music, Front Page Post

Here is the link to the mp3 version of Ringtone No. 3 for Key to the Highway! If you want a ringtone for an iPhone go to the music store page. That page contains ringtones that are already in the Apple .m4r format for iPhones.

Of course, you can listen to my music for free…..but YOU can help support independent music creation, by going to the music store page, and buy ringtones (or songs, or videos)!

All payments may be done SECURELY through PayPal.    And if you don’t do anything else, at least listen on Spotify.

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Ringtone No. 2 for Key to the Highway

Jul 25, 2020 | Blog, Christopher J Music, Front Page Post

Here is the link to the mp3 version of Ringtone No. 2 for Key to the Highway! If you want a ringtone for an iPhone go to the music store page. That page contains ringtones that are already in the Apple .m4r format for iPhones.

Of course, you can listen to my music for free…..but YOU can help support independent music creation, by going to the music store page, and buy ringtones (or songs, or videos)!

All payments may be done SECURELY through PayPal.    And if you don’t do anything else, at least listen on Spotify.

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Ringtone No. 1 for Key to the Highway

Jul 25, 2020 | Blog, Christopher J Music, Front Page Post

Here is the link to the mp3 version of Ringtone No. 1 for Key to the Highway! If you want a ringtone for an iPhone go to the music store page. That page contains ringtones that are already in the Apple .m4r format for iPhones.

Of course, you can listen to my music for free…..but YOU can help support independent music creation, by going to the music store page, and buy ringtones (or songs, or videos)!

All payments may be done SECURELY through PayPal.    And if you don’t do anything else, at least listen on Spotify.

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The Video for Hide Away

Jul 10, 2020 | Blog, Christopher J Music, Front Page Post, Guitars

Here is the video for Hide Away.    I released my arrangement and recording of Freddie King’s Hide Away last week, on July 1st and then worked on putting this video together.  I wondered if “Mel’s Hide Away Lounge” which Freddie says he named the song after was still there, but apparently it disappeared long ago.  I contacted the manger for Freddie’s brother, Benny Turner, to see if she knew about Mel’s Hide Away Lounge and she confirmed that it is indeed gone.  But she told me that according to Benny, it was on Roosevelt Road (12th Street) near S. Halsted Street.   By the way, in the process I found out that Benny has a book out titled, “Survivor: The Benny Turner Story“, which I bought and I am really enjoying reading about Benny’s life, along with stories about his big brother Freddie.  Anyway, since the original Hide Away lounge is long gone I tried to find as many pictures of other Hide Aways that I could to include with my music.  So here you go!

 

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