When The Blues Comes To Texas - Acoustic Slide Blues

A slide blues inspired by Texan bluesmen Blind Lemon Jefferson and Texas Alexander.

I always loved the phrase : "when the blues come to Texas, loping like a mule"
There's a story about Blind Lemon Jefferson and two white men who offered him $20 (a great deal of money in the 20ies) to play the song 'Blues Come To Texas Loping Linke A Mule"; Lemon declined the offer saying : "I don't play the blues on a sunday....."
Lemon never recorded a song with that title but used the phrase in his 1926 recording called "Got The Blues"

Open D tuning DADF#AD

I'm playing a 1927 Stella guitar with a pearloid fretboard. It is not maple as some people think but "MOT" aka Mother Of Toiletseat". This kind of plastic was very popular for toiletseats in the 20ies, hence the name.

If you want to learn some slideplaying in this style check out my slide lesson dvd
http://www.playbluesguitar.eu/dsp02.php

Category:

Music

Tags:

• slide
• bottleneck
• acoustic
• guitar
• blues
• fingerpicking
• stella guitars
• blind lemon jefferson
• texas alexander
• daddystovepipe

[leoamae]

Wonderful as usual. Is that all mother of pearl on the neck?

[daddystovepipe]

@leoamae no, it's plastic, see vid description for more

[wehappyfewmusic]

Great stuff, is this your own song then?

[daddystovepipe]

@wehappyfewmusic

thanks

well, you decide after knowing the following....the lyrics have been used by Blind Lemon Jefferson; I made up a guitar part that follows, as much as possible, the vocal line. Some of the guitarriffs are derived from the playing of Ramblin' Thomas and Robert Nighthawk. The vocal phrasing is inspired by the singing of Texas Alexander. Do a search here on youtube with these names and you'll see what I mean :-)

[Jessespade1]

fantastic song, i had to watch it twice because i missed it while laughing about the "mother of toiletseat"

[qtofdog]

downright spooky!  you're somethin' else!

[thomskyful]

very nice. thanks for posting. what kind of guitar are you playing and most importantly what tuning are you playing in?

[GuitarLudi]

Klasse!!! Gefällt mir sehr gut.

[junglecruiser]

Great one, Carl. Of all your slide pieces, I think I like this one the best.

Will

[reprac9]

Very nice , & i liked the double time breaks ,, lovey Stella ,, cheers ,, dave :)

[jipes]

Always love the way you appropriate the songs and make it very personal. Great voice and slide work !

[jappadu100]

Yeah...Its very Great...

[JChoneybell]

Top notch!!!!