Check out some Indian classical music

[cyberfret]

Expand your horizons, check out this introduction to the classical music of northern India.

http://chandrakantha.com/articles/indian_music/

--Shawn

[SteelSlider]

I'll post my favorite Blues Forum here.
There are others but they are going through some turmoil at the moment. Hackers, arguments and flaming. I don't visit them very much at the moment. You know how it is.

BigRoadBlues is my all time fav. It's been redone, like Cyberfret, and the talk is on anything blue.
Harps,
Resonators,
Electric and acoustics,
Slide,
Pickin',
Old artists,
Several on-going stories, fiction, that everyone adds to and are funny.
Excellent advice from some very well rounded blues players.
Lots of stuff. ect.

http://www.bigroadblues.com/cgi/dcforum/dcboard.cgi

I go under a differnt handle there, but my style is still the same.
As the other boards come back to life, I'll post them.
See ya there, but come back here too. I ain't tryin' to lure no one away from here.

[SteelSlider]

That's a good link Shawn.
One of my favorite Slide guitarists of modern times is Ry Cooder.
Over the years he's developed into quite an ethnic player, recording and preforming with Taj Mahal, an Irish Blues band and a man from India who's name I can't remember or spell when I can remember it. I'll look his name up.
Ry has had a large influence on my interest in music from other lands. The beautiful and floating melodies are haunting. Especially the combination of a slide acoustic and a sitar. Real ear candy.
Thanks for that link.