Brown's Ferry Blues

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Uploaded by on Jul 24, 2007

"Songs the New Lost City Ramblers taught me to love"
Lew Dite with his tenor guitar.

THE WORDS & CHORDS TO THIS SONG AT:
www.youtube.com/LDsongscreen

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  • Where would one pick up a tenor guitar Lew?

  • I would try ebay. The best tenor guitars are either Martins or Gibsons.

  • How do you have it tuned?

  • This is a Martin tenor guitar. (4 strings) I am using nylon (black) strings. I took a set of 6 nylon guitar stings and I used the middle 4 strings from the set. In other words, I dropped the high E and the low E strings and kept the ADGB strings. I put these 4 strings on the guitar and tuned them as follows... CFAD which is one step lower than the standard guitar tuning of DGBE. I hope this makes sense...

  • Originally a Delmore Brothers Tune. Good Job.

  • Yes, the Delmore Brothers... you may have noticed that the chorus was not in the original. I wrote the chorus myself... "People cross the river on the ferry boat ride, they bring their stories from far and wide. Lord, lord, I got those Brown's Ferry blues.They tell tall tales and sad ones too, some are lies and some are true."

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  • Outstanding! Great picking and singing. Just got my hands on a nice old Gibson tenor -- I'm going to be using your videos to get started. Thanks for posting this!

  • i know Woody used this for 'Jackhammer BLues' did he just borrow it

  • My grandparents were friends of the Delmores back in Alabama, I have heard parts of this song sung by them but never really knew it was Browns Ferry Blues.

    Thanks!

  • Lew...Lord Lord this is very good! thanks.

    D G B E that's baritone uke tuning?

    I like it! JM

  • Peter Paul & Mary sang "Old Stewball was a race horse, and I wish he were mine, he never drank water, he only drank wine", if that's the one you mean.

  • are you a lew dite or a lewd ite?

    Anyway, I enjoyed your singing and picking.

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