Tuesday, August 28, 2012

TABLATURE TUESDAY: ETTA BAKER - CROW JANE


This eight-bar blues theme (key of E, standard tuning) is a Piedmont standby.  Josh White used it for his classic "Blood Red River" while Simmie Dooley and Pink Anderson romped it up on "Every Day in the Week."  In this arrangement, again based on Etta Baker's version, the thumbed third string played against the fingerpicked open second string (as in the first bar) is an essential wrinkle, but this is mostly alternating bass with an attractive turnaround in bar 7.

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