I set out to learn Weeping Willow and pulled out the recordings I have of this song in my collection: Blind Boy Fuller, Ernie Hawkins and Pink Anderson. All three guitarist use the same lick in the song, but where they start it varies between the first and second beat of the measure.
Blind Boy Fuller plays it this way:
-------------------|----1------0-------|
-----2------0------|-------3-------3---|
--------2-------2--|----2------0-------|
-----2------0------|-0-------------3---| etcetera
-0--------------4--|-------------------|
-------------------|-------------------|
Hawkins and Anderson more like this:
---------------------|--1------0---------|
---2------0----------|-----3-------3-----|
------2-------2------|--2------0---------|
---2------0----------|-------------3---0-| etcetera
--------------4---0--|-------------------|
---------------------|-------------------|
It's a subtle difference, but it changes the feel of the song a bit, IMO. I have a couple of other recordings of this song, but the interpretations, guitar accompaniment, are different (Roy Book Binder, Michael Cooney) Anyone know if BBF the source recording for this song?
(To those of you reading the same post on another forum, pardon the duplicate post!)
