Home arrow Resources arrow Keys To The Highway Sep 02, 2010 at 11:00 PM
I'd jump 'em from other writers, but I'd 'range 'em up my way - Willie McTell, intro to Beedle Um Bum, Last Sessions
Keys to the Highway: Some Country Blues Resources
  • Guitar Keys and Positions by Artist  ( 9 items )
    Complete song lists by key and position for a number of country blues players, including Blind Willie McTell, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Boy Fuller, Charley Patton, Furry Lewis, Leecan and Cooksey, The Mississippi Sheiks, Papa Charlie Jackson and Tommy McClennan.

  • Adventures in Open and Alternate Tunings  ( 5 items )
    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.

  • Alfred Karnes Lyrics  ( 8 items )
    "Do not wait 'til I'm laid 'neath the clay..."

  • Blind Lemon Jefferson Lyrics  ( 14 items )
    "Don't play me cheap!" - Blind Lemon catchphrase

  • Charley Lincoln Lyrics  ( 12 items )
    "Oh, the mojoe blues, mama, crawlin' 'cross the floor..."

  • The Down Home Boys  ( 6 items )
    "Stack O'Lee was a bully, he bullied all his life..."

  • Ed Bell Lyrics  ( 19 items )
    "She's a long, tall woman and she toot way out behind..."

  • Funny Papa Smith Lyrics  ( 21 items )
    "They tell me Seven Sisters in New Orleans, that can really fix a man up right..."

  • Furry Lewis Lyrics  ( 12 items )
    "Mama, get your hatchet, kill the fly on your baby's head..."

  • Geeshie Wiley Lyrics  ( 2 items )
    "I’m a little bitty mama, baby, and I ain’t built for speed..."

  • Henry Thomas Lyrics  ( 2 items )
    "I'm going where I never get bulldozed..."

  • Herman E. Johnson Lyrics  ( 10 items )
    " I'll eat my breakfast here, eat my supper in Mexico..."

  • Ishmon Bracey Lyrics  ( 14 items )
    "Lord, I studied so hard 'til the blues crept up on me..."

  • Lil' Son Jackson Lyrics  ( 16 items )
    "You know, I ain't got no true religion, baby, and I don't want to be baptized..."

  • Peg Leg Howell Lyrics  ( 23 items )
    "Just a worried old rambler, with a troublesome mind..."

  • Sleepy John Estes Lyrics  ( 46 items )
    "I got to do some recording and I oughta be recording right now..."

  • Sloppy Henry Lyrics  ( 4 items )
    I live down in the alley, full of canned heat as I can be...

  • Sylvester Weaver Lyrics  ( 17 items )
    "They served you whiskey, strong as nitroglycerine..."

  • Teddy Darby Lyrics  ( 19 items )
    "If whiskey don't kill me, I'm doomed to lose my mind..."

  • 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

  • William Moore Lyrics  ( 6 items )
    "Ah, rag 'em Barber Bill. Got old Bill to barkin'. Jazz them blues. Rag my blues away, boy, rag 'em."