Topic: Sun Don't Shine - Teddy Williams

[bayrum78]

Somehow I missed the wonderful collection of blues recorded by George Mitchell and first heard it last weekend on my way down to the Charlie Poole Festival in Eden,NC on a friend's ipod. Among several others, I was transfixed by the Teddy Williams  material and thought I'd try my hand at his Sun Don't Shine Blues. Here she is......hope you like it!

[lindy]

Really fine stuff, Bayrum, thanks for posting that.

To my ears that riff sounds a lot like Garfield Akers/Joe Calicott Cottonfield Blues. Anyone else hear that connection?

So much stuff on that George Mitchell collection to go through, you're gonna be busy for a few years with that set.

Would love to hear a report about the Charlie Poole Festival.

Lindy

[Prof Scratchy]

Another fine performance!

[bayrum78]

Thanks guys! Hadn't noticed that before Lindy but yeah the Hernando sound is there! The riffing in Dough Roller Blues is very similar and they both play the flatted 3rd heavily. I think Garfield's riff slides into the minor 3rd (C) on the 3rd string and Williams is playing the same note an octave lower on the 5th string. The other difference is Williams follows with a  A7th (G note) glissando tag at the tail end of the riff. The D chord and E chord fingering is peculiar in this song and I don't recall hearing another song that drones on the low G note (6th string) instead of the 6th string open E when playing the E (V)chord while singing an E note.  He really leverages the flatted 3rd in this song.

I had a really good and bad time at the CP festival in Eden ( formerly named Spray until it merged with Leake). Good because I always enjoy seeing Kinney Rorrer perform Poole songs true to the style and I landed 2nd place in the fingerstyle guitar competition playing Peg Leg Howell's Walkin' Blues. Really bad because over the course of the weekend severe thunderstorms destroyed my tent and shelter Friday night and then rolled in again Sat late afternoon and destroyed the replacement tent and $helter I bought earlier that same day. The designated camping area was flanked by a canal that was sandwiched between two mills one of which employed CP. This layout created a wind tunnel that wreaked havoc on us. I never actually got to camp - we  stayed at a friends house out of town Friday night and at a local hotel sat. night. When we returned Sunday to the camp site which I had started calling "Camp Joplin" to gather the salvageable remains of our camping gear - it had all been looted! Over the course (curse) of the weekend I lost several hundred dollars. Will I go there again? Yup (I'm pretty hard headed). Sinced then , I've been telling folks  I got Sprayed and Leaked on in Eden ;-)

[Pan]

Hi Bayrum.

You've got a very nice strong, almost hypnotic, groove again on this song!

Congratulations regarding the fingerstyle competition too. Let's all hope that the sun will shine to your backdoor tent someday! 

Cheers

Pan