While My Guitar Gently Weeps

by Lianne Schneider

Title

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Artist

Lianne Schneider

Medium

Digital Art - Digital Painting/photographic Art

Description

From classical guitarist, Andre Segovia, to the hard-rocking, Kurt Cobain, guitarists throughout the ages have played this beautifully expressive instrument and moved our souls, lifted our spirits and brought us to tears. We may debate whether Robert Johnson, the ground-breaking black Mississippi blues singer and guitarist should be ranked #1 among the best guitar players in the world or whether that honor should go to Jimi Hendrix, but in the end, that's less important than the influence they have had on music. Johnson's legacy of recordings is the undisputed foundation upon which all modern blues and rock music rests. Hendrix took every possible sound from acoustic to electric and blended it into something that went so far beyond the drugs that it left people high who had never taken a drug in their lives.

Guitars and guitar players have been the most essential component of contemporary music since John Lee Hooker stuck a microphone in his guitar while singing those angry, raspy Delta blues back in the early 1940s. Once the big band orchestra style era ended, the guitar became the backdrop for almost all popular music and that's still true today. (It was brought to my attention by one of my blog readers - seasonssongandspirit.com - that I had neglected to mention one of the most talented and innovative guitarists of our time - the legendary Les Paul - whose design and electronic contributions to guitar manufacturing really can't be measured. Dozens of superstars like Eric Clapton and Paul McCartney have played a Gibson-Les Paul guitar.)

In 1968, Beatles member, George Harrison wrote a song that was eventually to be listed as #136 on Rolling Stone's list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time", #7 on their list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time, and #10 on their list of The Beatles 100 Greatest Songs. In an online poll held by Guitar World magazine in February 2012, "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" was voted the best of Harrison's Beatle-era songs. The recorded version includes a guitar solo by another of the top 20 guitar players of all time - Eric Clapton. Arguably one of the Beatles finest songs, it never won the acclaim of other hits. But the lyrics can't help but touch your heart.

WHILE MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS

I look at you all see the love there that's sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps
I look at the floor and I see it needs sweeping
Still my guitar gently weeps

I don't know why nobody told you
How to unfold your love
I don't know how someone controlled you
They bought and sold you

I look at the world and I notice its turning
While my guitar gently weeps
Every mistake, we must surely be learning
Still my guitar gently weeps

I don't know how you were diverted
You were perverted too
I don't know how you were inverted
No one alerted you

I look at you all see the love there that's sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps
I look at you all
Still my guitar gently weeps

UNUSED VERSE:
I look at the trouble and see that it's raging,
While my guitar gently weeps.
As I'm sitting here, doing nothing but ageing,
Still, my guitar gently weeps.

Thank you to the following groups for featuring this image:
IMAGES THAT EXCITE YOU - JOHN
THE AWE FACTOR - LINDA
FABULOUS ART BOUTIQUE - REBECCA
VISUAL VOICE - ANNIE
DIGITAL ART AND RESOURCES - ROSEANN
ART WITH FLAIR - WILLIAM
BEST IMAGE PROMOTION - WILLIAM
ART FROM THE PAST - JOUKO
COMPOSITE OR MIXED MEDIA - SHIRLEY
DIGITAL ART AND FABULOUS FRACTALS - KIKI ART
PLEASING THE EYE - JEFF
SIGNATURE STYLE ART - SHARON
PREMIUM FAA ARTISTS - DAN
LIFE IS WHAT HAPPENS - ALEC
500 VIEWS 1 PER DAY - MARIOLA
3 A DAY AAA IMAGES - CHUCK
1000 VIEWS 1 PER DAY - JEFF

I am a western New York based artist with a passion for the sea and a deep love for the natural world around me. Having somewhat restricted mobility, my paintings are sometimes based on images in the public domain or on elements from classic art work. Thank you for your interest in my artwork. If you would like to see more, my full portfolio can be found at http://lianne-schneider.artistwebsites.com If you enjoy my art works, please feel free to share this link with friends or share on your social networks by pushing the Pinterest, FB, Google+, Twitter or SU Buttons! Thank you!

You can purchase quality traditional style fine art prints of digital paintings, giclee canvas prints, acrylic and metallic prints by Lianne Schneider. Beautiful and stylish decor for any wall in your home, office or lobby. Detailed landscapes, seascapes, still lifes, flowers and more...all with the look and feel of classic oil paintings. The FAA-Watermark will NOT appear on any final product!

This is a digital composite of images and textures in the public domain which was then hand-painted digitally on a Wacom tablet.

Please contact the artist, Lianne Schneider, directly if you purchase this image as a giclee print on canvas, framed or unframed. A signed and numbered Certificate of Authenticity is available for each canvas indicating title of the work, my name, date of creation, a thumbnail of the painting, the origin of original work if the painting is a derivative, the number of your print in the limited printing and a guarantee that the work will no longer be available to the public in a canvas format once 25 canvas prints are sold.

Copyright Lianne Schneider 2014
This is a rights managed image available for licensing at http://licensing.pixels.com/profiles/lianne-schneider.html

All images and my personal poetry/prose are protected by copyright and may not be reproduced, downloaded, distributed, transmitted, copied, reproduced in derivative works, displayed, published or broadcast by any means or in any form without prior written consent from the artist. My copyright does not imply rights to an underlying public domain image and I make no such claim. Copyright on works derived from or based on images in the public domain applies only to the subsequent manipulation or the digital painting resulting from my own style and interpretation. The original image remains in the public domain and such images are used in accordance with international law.

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