Cry Me A River (Julie London; Barney Kessel)

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"Cry Me A River"
Music by Arthur Hamilton
No tablature or score available from me. I have nothing written down.
My attempt at a chord/melody arrangement based on Barney Kessel's arrangement for the classic Julie London 1955 recording.
Martin 000-17s; mahogany construction

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Music

Tags:

• Arthur
• Hamilton
• Julie
• London
• Barney
• Kessel
• acoustic
• guitar
• fingerpicking
• troubleclef
• Instrumental
• fingerstyle

[olafbigandglad]

didn't barney kessel use a seven string guitar? or am i mixing him up with somebody else?

[troubleclef]

@olafbigandglad

not sure. maybe wikipedia it? 7 strings are nice though. thinking of one for myself some day. cheers.

[appluntu]

This is great arrangement. I cannot stop watching this video again and again. I tried to learn to play this song performed by Barney Kessel, but I concluded it it impossible unless I break a couple finger bones. Now I'm looking at your playing to see if I can learn it without any casualty in my fingers.

[troubleclef]

@appluntu

don't break anything. I don't think I play it quite like Barney (understatement). i read some place that his stretches in this were really super human. good luck with it.

[Braveheart100]

I never really comment on YouTube, but I have to stop and say that this is extremely well played, by an accomplished and creative musician.

[troubleclef]

@Braveheart100

thanks

[adautofernandess]

a gravação deste disco é uma das grandes influências da bossa nova, principalmente pela guitarra de Barney Kessel, em todas publicações feitas sobre o nascimento da bossa nova a citação do disco "julie london is her name" é feita por todos autores.

[caf2332]

magnfifique et efficace comme d'habitude , congrats !! ty

[rhythmrancher]

awesome man, this is so sweet!

[jazzman5494]

Great arrangement , very nice playing

[285209]

Lovely stuff.

You seem to be one of only a few who play the song in its original key, at least the key London recorded it in . I noticed in my wandering that Diana Krall played it live in E.

Internet tab can make you crazy people.

[olafbigandglad]

@jazzman5494 huh. that seems a trifle petty to me, but what do i know?

[jazzman5494]

@olafbigandglad Barney Kessel played a six string Gibson 350 (1946?} to which he made many modifications to ie. cc pickup , volume and tone knobs He eventually obscured the Gibson logo of the headstock because he didn't feel they deserved credit for the sound

[LaserBeam002]

I probably have listened to this 75 times since I found it about three months ago. Probably will listen that many times still.

[Sonofrest1]

@olafbigandglad Barney played a six string Gibson with a Charlie Christian pickup. George Van Epps was one of the first to use a seven string, Bucky Pizzarelli has been playing one forever. I was lucky enough to do a recording with Bucky. He played a baritone guitar through a Twin Reverb with the vibrato on and we kidded him for sounding like a Spaghetti Western. He chuckled and said "Laugh all you want, this guitar bought me a house!".

[obscuramusic]

Absolutely superb!