BOB WILLS / SITTIN' ON TOP OF THE WORLD

But bluerailroad didn't say anything bad about Bob Wills. The vocal track IS off from the instrumentation. It sounds odd. Bob Wills is a legend, but that doesn't mean he's some sort of infallible god who can't fuck up sometime.

bluerailroad, you just don't talk that way about bob wills. he could make a terrible song sound great. let's be kinder to our elders and LEGENDS!

man......

Does anyone understand the blocking of this tune? The opening fiddle chorus has it right, but after that there's all kinds of extra measures and the singing over the end of the steel break is clearly the work of some bonehead sound mixer. I think the film director got them to change the arrangement for reasons best known to him.

The lefty guitar player is playing a right-handed guitar upside down. Quite a feat.

I'm a lefty...did the same til I bought me a left-handed Strat. in '61. Once saw a guy in Lexington, Ky. Take a right-handed Gibson, turn it upside down [didn't change string order], and played it over the top of the neck. Name was Carlos Toadvine, went by name of 'Little Enis'. Bob Wills would've loved him.

Paul McCartney is a lefty that a played a right-hand guitar with strings in the right-hand order.

May be true - Just never saw Paul play Guitar OR Bass over top of the neck like Little 'Enis'. Piano, Ah...us lefties don't change nothin'. We just play...me & Paul.

If you look closely you can see that this guitarist does exactly the same as Mr. Toadvine. Bluerailroad is right. That's some feat. Amazing.

I've played this song a million times in various bands, but we always did the Cream version. It's almost not recognizeable as the same song.

You better look closer. Guy's playin' from UNDER the neck NOT OVER-THE-TOP like Enis did. The thing the two did share in common was, they DIDN'T CHANGE the strings. Playing notes this way's not really that difficult...Chords are a different thing, try an augmented 9th with everything reversed.

i don't really understand the technical side but this is a 9bar blues song as compared to the conventional 12, the mixing sounds a bit weird on the steel but i thought it was in keeping with the time structure