Here's an attempt on another difficult but fun tune.... I think this was the first Blake tune I fell in love with lots of years ago.
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During his visit, Fahey succeeded in greatly impressing me by picking out an old blues by Little Hat Jones, and demonstrating Charley Patton's masterpiece, 'Down the Dirt Road', which I subsequently set about copying. In my 19-year-old neophyte's eyes, any guitarist who could approximate a vintage blues accompaniment was a virtuoso; only six or seven players in the entire country applied themselves to such pieces - Stephen Calt on the state of blues guitar in the early 1960s, from A Fahey Memoir (unpublished)
0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic. Here's an attempt on another difficult but fun tune.... I think this was the first Blake tune I fell in love with lots of years ago.
joe paul
Cool, a real pleasure to hear that relaxed Blake rhythm done well. Record some more!
Gordon wow, great job, congratulation. It takes a lot of work to play and sing this so well.
Mike Nice! Black Dog is a B.B.favorite.
Enjoyable selection of songs there on YouTube as well. Thanks LB
Not only well played and sang, but excellent tone and something rare, solid slow peaceful pace. Not rushed... damned fine. Kind of stuff I enjoy listening to.
Tasty and tasteful. Thanks for sharing. Mr. Blake would approve.
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Fabulous! I really enjoyed that. I love Blind Blake and you really do him justice.
-Greg MissouriTiger
I just realized this thread is over 2 1/2 years old. Funny how a thread like this keeps getting bumped up. I'll have to pay more attention in the future.
Great playing though! Greg Here's an attempt on another difficult but fun tune.... I think this was the first Blake tune I fell in love with lots of years ago. Really nice job and thanks for opening my eyes on a problem I always had trying to work this out off the record at normal speed, (I don't have one of those slow downer thingos). First were the bass notes in the first part of the verse and more importantly to go to a G7 instead of D7 after the run down to A7. Also the begiining of the intro you showed is the same as the opening part of the intro to Hey Hey Daddy Blues and I hadn't made the connection before. Basically you have nailed it shut. It is amazing how many variations he had for his song intros, Blake is the master of cool intros
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