Hi all,
One of the interesting moves Charlie Turner makes in "Kansas City Dog Walk" is one I'd only heard done previously by Shirley Griffith, in "River Line Blues". Turner takes a D7 chord fingered out of an A7 shape, X-X-7-7-7-8, and resolves the chord down three frets, intact, to a B7, X-X-4-4-4-5, all in the context of a V7 chord, since "Kansas City Dog Walk" is played, at that point, in G. Shirley Griffith in "River Line Blues" goes from an E7 out of the A7 shape, X-X-9-9-9-10, to a C#7 out of the same shape, X-X-6-6-6-7, but it's in the context of a I7 chord, since "River Line Blues" is in E. The move is somewhat akin to moving a diminished 7 shape up or down three frets, a la Lonnie Johnson or Blind Blake, but is considerably more exotic sounding, because the dominant seventh chord, unlike the diminished seventh chord, does not invert and re-voice itself every three frets--instead, when you move the dominant seventh chord three frets, you've just got a different chord, and its a lot more jarring.
Anyhow, it's interesting to hear an earlier recorded version of the move that Shirley played in "River Line". I thought he might have had that one all to himself, but I guess there's nothing new under the sun.
All best,
Johnm
