Wild Country - Chris Whitley

[inflateablesoulmate]

The only one I cant find is GUNS AND DOLLS but i figured it out in plain ole E tuning.starting in a D and some fancy finger pickin/bends. Anyone know where i can find a GUNS AND DOLLS video or tuning?

[jipes]

Good cover Jack, Chris music ain't easy for sure, I've tried other songs and found myself also pretty lost. I guess you're pretty close to the overall chord pattern Nice job !

[urbansombreros6]

hey nice job man. Watching this prompted me to find the tabs and learn it too. His intro is different from the verses and a bit more complicated. Reaaalllyyyy had to sit and listen to it to figure it out. I was pissed the tabs didn't have the bridge either, but I think i figured that out too. CW was a tricky guy.

Nice shine on that National. I have a Vintage Steel Delphi thats starting to tarnish real nice. Soon it'll match the way it sounds. Anyway, thanks for the inspiration.

[jackn1969]

Thanks, yeah CW is impossible to follow, just enjoy trying!

I havent cleaned this guitar for 10 years now, not even a wipe after playing it!

[citrix99301]

@jackn1969 CW was a musical genius. Too bad I didn't discover him until after his passing. 

[jackn1969]

@citrix99301 Yep, I think CW almost impossible to match to be honest. I still play the Dirt Floor album at every chance I get, cant understand how he wasnt more famous than he was, he was genius.

[zendog13]

Does anyone know where I can find the tabs or tuning for this?

[jackn1969]

CW uses D minor tuning. You can find tabs on the chriswhitley site then - forum - message board, theres tabs for almost all of his songs there.

[preachingsin]

Awesome, I'm going to go get some frustration on.

[inflateablesoulmate]

DUST FORUMS

[subtoxin]

I know that song well...pretty good!

[jackn1969]

thanks for dropping by, i see you already a CW fan, awaesome!

[huskylord]

Real nice....

[jackn1969]

Thank you, keep listening to anything by Chris Whitley, he was just the best contemporary slide guitarist by far.

[hazor777]

I love CW , & it is debateable whether he was the best contemp. slide player, but if you havent listened to John Moody--yer in for a suprise.He was a student of Son House,I believe.But much props to CW

[jipes]

It's not John Moody but John Mooney which is a New Orleans best gem (even if he's born in Rochester)

[voyces]

Nice job! (It was Still Sustaining when you shut off the recorder, you know!!!)

great sounding National, too.

[jackn1969]

Hey thanks, the National is nearly ten years old now its really wearing in and sounding bluesier each year, plus real heavy gauge strings 16-59 help the bass to sustain forever!

[voyces]

Man, maybe it's my girly Les Paul fingers, but I can hardly make 13's play well on my Regal Tricone. Is your action pretty low? or, after 10 years,did you just finally develop superhuman hand powers???

[jackn1969]

LOL, yeah the superhuman hand powers help, just eat Krypton for breakfast, wearing red underpants helps too. Action is just as it was from the shop but I use Michael Messer National guitar strings made by Newtone, they get up to pitch with just a little less tension, aw man they make the resonator work for its money.

[ChristopherDavidTV]

Really enjoyed that, cheers, keep up the good work.

[jackn1969]

Hey thanks for that, Im always gonna struggle with Chris Whitley tunes, he is such a hard act to follow, main thing is I enjoy trying. Chris Whitley R.I.P.

[ThomasPopp]

Great Cover.

[droliver]

This song is played in DADGAD tuning. Try it, it will sound much more accurate and be easier to play

[jackn1969]

Ive been trying to play the song in Dm tuning tho I never quite managed to get it together, but while doing this I started learning some Skip James, so thanks for helping me to branch out:-)