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Adventures in Open and Alternate Tunings
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| Explore the different tunings used by country blues players with these lists of songs in Cross-Note, Dropped-D, Spanish and Vestapol. And as a bonus, try some standard tuning Blues in F. |
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Alfred Karnes Lyrics
( 8 items )
"Do not wait 'til I'm laid 'neath the clay..."
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Blind Lemon Jefferson Lyrics
( 14 items )
"Don't play me cheap!" - Blind Lemon catchphrase
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Charley Lincoln Lyrics
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"Oh, the mojoe blues, mama, crawlin' 'cross the floor..."
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The Down Home Boys
( 6 items )
"Stack O'Lee was a bully, he bullied all his life..."
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Ed Bell Lyrics
( 19 items )
"She's a long, tall woman and she toot way out behind..."
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Funny Papa Smith Lyrics
( 21 items )
"They tell me Seven Sisters in New Orleans, that can really fix a man up right..."
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Furry Lewis Lyrics
( 12 items )
"Mama, get your hatchet, kill the fly on your baby's head..."
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Geeshie Wiley Lyrics
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"I’m a little bitty mama, baby, and I ain’t built for speed..."
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Henry Thomas Lyrics
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"I'm going where I never get bulldozed..."
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Herman E. Johnson Lyrics
( 10 items )
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I'll eat my breakfast here, eat my supper in Mexico..."
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Ishmon Bracey Lyrics
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"Lord, I studied so hard 'til the blues crept up on me..."
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Lil' Son Jackson Lyrics
( 16 items )
"You know, I ain't got no true religion, baby, and I don't want to be baptized..."
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Peg Leg Howell Lyrics
( 23 items )
"Just a worried old rambler, with a troublesome mind..."
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Sleepy John Estes Lyrics
( 46 items )
"I got to do some recording and I oughta be recording right now..."
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Sloppy Henry Lyrics
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I live down in the alley, full of canned heat as I can be...
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Sylvester Weaver Lyrics
( 17 items )
"They served you whiskey, strong as nitroglycerine..."
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Teddy Darby Lyrics
( 19 items )
"If whiskey don't kill me, I'm doomed to lose my mind..."
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Texas Alexander Lyrics
( 48 items )
| "He was a very difficult singer to accompany; he was liable to jump a bar, or five bars, or anything. You just had to be a fast thinker to play for Texas Alexander. When you been out there with him, you done nine days work in one!" - Lonnie Johnson, on backing Texas Alexander |
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William Moore Lyrics
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"Ah, rag 'em Barber Bill. Got old Bill to barkin'. Jazz them blues. Rag my blues away, boy, rag 'em."
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