Job's Tears (second half) - Incredible String Band (cover)

[allwillbe1]

Such beautiful musicianship and sensitive interpretation! Thank you for sharing your music, LiteGauge, it's a joy. Job's Tears is one of my favorites, as you might deduce from my username ;)

[LiteGauge]

@allwillbe1 Cheers and best wishes ! May the long time sun shine on you !

[TwigWorldTV]

Nice work, thumbs up :D

[Parzival14]

A patient person awaits the first half of this great tune. Please give it your best shot. I'm fairly certain it won't dissapoint.

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[LiteGauge]

@Parzival14 I've been working on this on and off for quite a while and as yet I still haven't found a tuning that I'm happy with for the whole song. Parts of the tune are easy in standard tuning, parts with Open A and parts with Open G, but overall with these tuning some parts are very awkward. So it's work in progress and best shot is out of the question until I'm happy with it.

[LiteGauge]

@Parzival14 Patience pays, patient person, possible playing of plentiful parts posted post-midi (1st February 2011). Hope it helps, let me know if it's difficult to follow :o

[RobertPCW1]

I've been looking for this song for years. A dear friend used to sing it in the folk clubs in Stoke on Trent in the '70s. Beautiful.

[Parzival14]

Have you had a chance to work on the 1st half? Anxiously awaiting.

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[MrAllendalify]

Det står cover, men Robin Williamson ingick ju i The Incredible String Band och det var han som skrev låten.

[threefive00]

this is really great. :) i play this in Open A, but Open G sounds great as well!

[LiteGauge]

Thanks :o) Yes, the only tab I've ever seen of this was done done by Jay Ansill in Open A. It's the only 'regular' open tuning that I very rarely try, so I've never really learned it properly like that. I don't think the first part works at all in Open G tho', so 'maybe some day' I'll have to work at Jay's version.

[Parzival14]

Any chance we could get you to post the first half of this ISB tune? My personal favorite and you do it well.

[LiteGauge]

I rather worked this out by accident and then discovered that the first half does work well it this tuning. I'll have to sit down and work at it :o)

[Galahad3000]

Oh, how very lovely. Thank you for posting this...

[LiteGauge]

Thanks very much

[chrispygt]

Another beauty, I bloomin love your taste in music. Good stuff J.

[LiteGauge]

Cheers, Chris :o)

[Gingerhoneycat]

This is a beautiful song, i've not heard it before. The only incredible string band song I'm familiar with is called Maya, a great track, really odd melody! I'm gonna try and get hold of some more stuff by them after listening to this, fantastic xx

[LiteGauge]

Thanks, personally I prefer all of the earlier albums - the first with Clive Palmer, Hangman's Beauiful Daughter, 1000 layers of the Onion, Wee Tam, Big Huge and Changing Horses. If you already know Maya then maybe Wee Tam and Big Huge would be a good place to start.

[oliverscott2007]

I liked it. Good stuff.

[nlows420]

Really nice interpretation... I've been planning on posting a full version of this tune, but haven't got around to it yet. Is this in Open A like the original? If not it is very close. Wonderful playing!

[LiteGauge]

Thanks, I know that the original is supposedly in Open A but I did this in Open G, mainly because my guitar was tuned that way at the time and it seems to fit rather well. I've never tried Open A tuning, and I'm not sure that my voice could cope with the first part of the song away :)