Find My Way Back Home, by Willie McBlind

Find My Way Back Home

by Willie McBlind

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The debut CD by Willie McBlind begins with an instrumental take on Chicken Shack, which puts the parallel 13th Harmonic chords on clear display. Performed on the 64-tone Just Intonation guitar, the sheer number of frets enables guitarist/composer Jon Catler the ability to slide around and sound like a slide guitar. The compositions, like ‘Every Time’, are ‘Stunning’ (Downbeat Magazine), and the version of Charley Patton’s Pony Blues is a wild ride.

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1.	Chicken 06:24	info	buy track
2.	Canonballer 04:50	info	buy track
3.	Find My Way 05:28	info	buy track
4.	Hope My Baby 03:16	info	buy track
5.	Shallow Gray 05:45	info	buy track
6.	Pony Blues 03:17	info	buy track
7.	Train 04:05	info	buy track
8.	Fall 05:50	info	buy track
9.	Every Time 06:20	info	buy track
10.	Time Ain't Long 07:43	info	buy track

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Willie McBlind's first release called Find My Way Back Home is a blues CD, although other flavors certainly appear – it is the feeling of the music which makes this a blues CD. The two main types of tuning used on this recording are Just Intonation and 12-Tone Ultra Plus. The Just system uses 64 notes per octave and is a 13-limit system, meaning that the 13th Harmonic is the highest prime used as an integral part of the system. In comparison, American composer Harry Partch used an 11-limit system. By extending this to the 13-limit, we gain access to the first complete scale found in Nature, which can be found in the 8-16 Harmonics of the Overtone Series.

The history of music can be viewed as the story of Man’s gradual acceptance of higher members of the Overtone Series. From unisons to octaves, then from perfect 5ths to 3rds, 7ths and beyond, the evolution of Man’s ear can be traced. Willie McBlind’s music shows that 13 is a consonance and that Man’s ear has evolved to be able to recognize this fact.

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released February 21, 2022

All compositions by Jon Catler © 2007 Abo Music/ASCAP
Track 6 by Charley Patton, arranged by Jon Catler
All songs (except 4 and 10) composed in 64 notes per octave Just Intonation tuning
Tracks 4 and 10 performed in 12-Tone Ultra Plus
©℗ 2007 FreeNote Records, All rights reserved

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