We’re doing classic blues this week. Meaning real blues. Thanks for your suggestions. We’ve got some extraordinary songs. Starting with this one:
We’re doing classic blues this week. Meaning real blues. Thanks for your suggestions. We’ve got some extraordinary songs. Starting with this one:
That’s the straight business there. Open D minor. Bentonia School. Dark shit. Very good start.
Chris Thomas King covered it for “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” Here’s a performance from Music City Roots:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laWj4OOGo7c
Very nice. Mournful, haunting, maybe gothic. Not House of Blues stuff (or at least what I think of as House of Blues stuff).