Bukka's Jitterbug Swing

Short version of Bukka White's Jitterbug Swing, learned from the playing of Catfish Keith, played in open D on my old 1930s Regal

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Music

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• blues
• slide
• bottleneck
• jitterbug
• swing
• bukka
• white
• catfish
• keith
• resonator
• delta
• dobro
• national
• regal
• guitar

[sgrifennu]

I do like your version. Do you play banjo because it's almost like a banjo frailing tecnique that you use there. I also leared it from Catfish, at one of his workshops.

[ChickenboneJohn]

@sgrifennu No..I don't play banjo...I keep having a go, but not owning one means I never have chance to develop the technique. Unfortunately I missed Catfish this year - the last couple of years I've usually put on a gig with him in the West Midlands.

[wehappyfewmusic]

Nice version! What model Regal dobro are you playing, sounds great.

[ChickenboneJohn]

@wehappyfewmusic

Thanks for the complimnet....it's an old 1930s Regal..came to me as basket case and I rebuilt it.

Point of information - it's not a dobro style guitar tho', it's a biscuit bridge reso...dobro style guitars have spider bridges...I get a bit cranky about people calling any reso guitar a Dobro, sorry, no offence intended!!!

[georgewell001]

great song..in wich open tune u pick it?

[ChickenboneJohn]

Played in open D

[ferfried6]

Well done mate. Give you 5*

[JTheRiffer]

Not bad man. There's handdrumming in there though, and the main lick is so cool, maybe play it a few times more. Also - the lyrics... well lissen close, it really is about something specific.

[JohnMalcolm]

@georgewell001

This is closer to Eb  Bukka's version on youtube is about a full tone lower (C#) and the slides are quite different, the second one going up to the high tonic, probably the 12th fret.

[AribertoOsio]

Nice groove man!

[wehappyfewmusic]

Cool, i didn't realise Regal made biscuit bridges as well - Nice find!