Jumper on the Line - R.L. Burnside... Wanna play those licks!

Nervous Niven presents:
Jumper on the Line - mobile phone version
The North Mississippi Hill Country classic played on a 1934 "National Duolian" acoustic steel bodied resonator guitar.

Sorry about the rough & ready spontaneous nature of this offering but it is over a year since my last upload and I am feeling impulsive.

I intend to upload a more polished production of "Jumper on the Line" when I get round to it but in the mean-time here's a mobile phone recording made earlier today..... 01/02/11.

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• Jumper on the line lesson
• Poor Black Mattie lesson
• One Chord Blues
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• Burnside Guitar Riff
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• Diddley Bow
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[Tchock16]

Hey I am a massive r.l.b fan and I wad just wondering what tuning you had your guitar in? As far as u can figure out e,b and top e are in standard.

[TheSpottytoad]

@Tchock16... Yo! Yo! Yo! ..... You got it dude! Spot on... I am in standard playin' out of "E" Minor.

Lotsa folks seem to think "Jumper on the Line" is in some kind of open tuninng but Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! R.L. more often did play out of open "G" but not this number... Well spotted!

[mongoose707tt]

I saw RL Burnside perform I guess a little over 10 years ago at a blues festival in Red Bank NJ. He played solo I think on a strat, he totally blew the place away. Knocked the shit out of me, I had never heard anything like it before. When he was done I felt like I got run over by a truck. It was F*cking riveting, he brought you in and he kept you there. You my friend Spottytoad made me cry because you reminded me of that night.

[TheSpottytoad]

@mongoose707tt...  Praise doesn't get any better than that..... Thank you.

[carthagepropaganda]

how did you learn this? I mean the right hand technique, ive been trying to figure it out for ages

[TheSpottytoad]

@carthagepropaganda..... I figured it out by ear, it's much harder than it looks and there is an awful lot more for me to learn. I think I might be on the right tracks although I'm foced to re-think my approach every time I listen to R.L.... His playing continues to astound me.

[TheSpottytoad]

If you wanna vote in favour of me putting a "Hill Country Style" guitar lesson together then just click on the thumbs up button next to this comment.....

I'll add your vote to the support counter on my "Poor Black Mattie" uploads.

Thanks for your encouragement and all your wonderful comments!

[solasta]

Cripes! Don't think I'd ever heard you sing- not seriously anyway. Nice groove and nice growl!

[cruiserblue]

Gedaye spotty carnt wait till 250 votes get up this riff has been haunting me for ages every tim i go back to it i carnt get it but you my friend you have nailed it

[Lurchdurch]

Great playing and singing! The lesson would much be appreciated!

[StewFairweather]

Hehe....go for it Niven! All good brother.

[TheSpottytoad]

@dhaeze... No, there is no lesson yet but I have promised that if enough people take an interest in wanting to learn my interpretation of "Hill Country Style Blues" I will put some lessons together aimed at beginners.

If you look at my "Poor Black Mattie" uploads you will see "Support Counters". When one of these counters reaches 250 I will post some lessons. Every time someone makes a supportive comment or adds a thumbs up to "If you wanna vote in favour" then a supporters point is added.

[womma]

Please put out a lesson with tabs on how to play this. Such a great groove. Thanks a lot.

[schlooterhead]

where's the lesson?

[norcaltrains]

Great playing. I'm a huge Hill Country music fan and your playing is right on the money. Can never hear enough of this stuff.