Moanin' Blues - Lonnie Johnson/Texas Alexander - 12 string

Lonnie Johnson and Texas Alexander recorded about 20 songs between 1927-1928. Lonnie's sophisticated guitarstyle fitted wonderfully well with Texas Alexander's moaning singingvoice. I pieced this song together from several of their duets.
In those days Lonnie always played in drop D or G, there's much debate about that. When he played a 12 string guitar he often removed several strings, which ones, well there's also much debate about that too. I play it in drop G (DGDGBE) and use 10 strings.

Here's the link to another great Lonnie Johnson instrumental "Blues In My Fingers"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vJw-B41tXA
TABLATURE AVAILABLE (see the description of the vid for more info)

Check out my new cd at Youtune Records
http://www.youtunerecords.com/daddystovepipe.html

Category:

Music

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• Lonnie
• Johnson
• 12string
• acoustic
• guitar
• country
• blues
• fingerpicking
• Texas
• Alexander
• unplugged
• solo
• roots
• daddystovepipe

[bubbah12345]

what guage strings and what tuning are you using

i cant seem to bend my strings at all but im also using strings that came on it

[daddystovepipe]

@bubbah12345

a 12-string xl set - for the rest read description please

[LizzyDouglas]

Daddy, leuk om uit te vinden, dat je uit Vlaanderen komt en je dit zonder problemen kunt lezen. "Lonnie Johnson" op de achtergrond, ik ben ook een groot fan van Lonnie. Op foto óók Lonnie's gitaar, weet jij wat voor een gitaar dit is? Merk/Type?

[daddystovepipe]

Het is een kleine wereld niet; de gitaar links is een Martin 21, die rechts een electrische Kay vermoed ik.

[aaxtis1]

Fantastic! I have posted you up on my website... the soundclips page ..what a genius! Is he french???

Terry

[daddystovepipe]

Thanks Terry, but "genius" makes me feel uncomfortable. Everything I do has been done before; I just mix and match it. I'm Belgian, Flemish to be exact (main language is close to Dutch - like American and Australian English:-)

[EdGreenTelle]

Amazing cover

[RagtimeDorianHenry]

fantastic, I'm a big fan of Texas Alexander.

[Pipposk88]

WTF!!! Amazing!!! Fuckin' amazing ... Greatings from Italy..

[EthanAllen420]

I particularly like the riff that begins at 0:48 and ends near 0:56-7. Brilliant.

[EthanAllen420]

I really thought this was Lonnie Johnson -- fantastic! You're a really skilled blues player.

[nickmlo]

Dude, you kick butt. Nice.

[LittleBrotherBlues]

You are slippery in how you slip that Lonnie stuff in there so nice and smooth. Sneaky bastar.... ;)