Leo Kottke - Little Martha

Duane's work! RIP

The only reason you'd need to use a capo is if you're playing it in the key that Duane Allman originally recorded it. Leo's is in open D (D-A-D-F#-A-D). If you tune your guitar to that, you'll be in the same key as this recording. Kinda frustrating that he doesn't do the second section of it, but I do like his own take on it with the harmonics and the strange "B" section of more dissonant chords.

This is gorgeous! Leo is amazing! While there's no overt similarity in style between himself and Nick Drake, I seem to get a sense of Nick here, in this particular piece (or vice versa: getting a sense of Leo when listening to one of Nick's songs ~ as I'm somehow feeling Nick's "Black Eyed Dog" now and then). Not sure if anyone is a fan of Nick, and no disrespect to either by my mentioning (just how I feel)! I think they're/were two of the GREATEST musical geniuses of our time.
Peace :)

Leo used DADGAD a lot. That might be what he's using here.

In one tab I managed to find, I think it was written out in DADf#ad, if that helps :)

open d

if you tune it to open D you have to put a capo on the 2nd fret to put it in the correct key (which is Emaj). Or, alternatively, you can tune it to open E (EBDG#BE).

Leo is amazing.... ftw

I think is open D, but it doesn't matter.

The most important here is the right hand stuff, the little bounds beetwin 2 or 3 bass strings.

You can try to play it, you're "almost there", but when you return to Leo, you hear those little bass notes bounding quickly. Is hard to retrieve that. You must work very quickly with thumb, index and medium fingers, right hand.

whys everybody play it so fast?  E-open tuning

you can do it, right?