Who wrote "Vestapol"? I learnt it form tab by Stefan Grossman, did Stefan write it or is it based on some older tune? I have put my version on ezfolk at http://ezfolk.com/audio/bands/565/music.php
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What is Blues then? It's a worried mind. It boils down to worry. Sometimes you worry so, it cause you to jump off the 'Frisco bridge up here, worry you so it cause you to stick a gun in you... that's all, it's worry. Some folks say, 'well, he went out of his head'. Well, if it's worry cause you to go out of your head, that's what it is. But that's the Blues - Reverend Rubin Lacy
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Who wrote "Vestapol"? I learnt it form tab by Stefan Grossman, did Stefan write it or is it based on some older tune? I have put my version on ezfolk at http://ezfolk.com/audio/bands/565/music.php
I'd certainly agree with Johnm that Vestapol as we know it came into the fingerpicking arena from Elizabeth Cotten but there was a 19th century parlour guitar piece called either "Sebastopol" or "The Siege of Sebastopol", referring to events of the Crimean War in the 1850s around the Russian city of that name. According to Steve James' Roots and Blues Guitar (p.28) it was published as a four-page 'descriptive fantasie' by the guitarist Henry Worrall in 1887. Perhaps the most significant aspect of the tune was that it was in Open D tuning; it's fairly easy to see how the title could be altered in popular parlance to Vastapol. There was another parlour piece entitled "Spanish Fandango" which was in Open G...
Cheerily, Gerry C eric
The Henry Worrall sheet music, I think he's also the Spanish Fandango Guy. It'd be interesting to hear this played as written.
https://www.kshs.org/index.php?url=km/items/view/208635 Steve W
There's also this from Jas Obrecht, but it looks like you need to subscribe to see the whole article. Which is fair enough, of course.
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