Cigar Box Slide Guitar - Gospel Blues - Lord, I Just Can't Keep From Crying - Blind Willie Johnson

Although Blind Willie Johnson recorded only Gospel songs his slide guitar playing is drenched in the blues.
All his slide songs are played in open D tuning (DADF#AD) but I arranged this one for the 4-string cigar box guitar tuned to GDgd.

You can find the neat poster at bluesimages.com (plus a lot of other cool prewar blues stuff).

The cigar box guitar was made by Fuzzy, who lives in the heart of Texas, where Blind Willie played the streets.
check him out at his channel where he demonstrates his cbg's (available at ebay)
http://www.youtube.com/user/FuzzysCBG

Here's a link to the original by Blind Willie Johnson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R83s9WIKUYk&feature=related

Category:

Music

Tags:

• cigar
• box
• slide
• guitar
• bottleneck
• gospel
• blues
• blind
• willie
• johnson
• daddystovepipe
• fuzzy

[gsjssss]

ARE YOU USING PIEZOS SOUNDS GREAT

[daddystovepipe]

@gsjssss

no, it has some kind of jazz pickup near the bridge.

I use piezoz on my other cbg.

[snorrevonflake]

Are you getting bored with all your great acoustic guitars so that you only play these terrible sounding boxes recently?

[daddystovepipe]

I'm certainly not bored with my acoustic guitars but I like to freak out once in a while ;-)

btw, a lot of the old acoustic players owned and played electric guitars when they were rediscovered; eg Mance Lipscomb played electric, even Blind Willie McTell had an electric guitar....

[waitswatcher]

great as always! cool poster as wel ... :-D

[RadsnRems]

This is amazing. Your voice complements your melody very well

[philjit1]

hell fella , you is black , and in the cotton fields.. and i mean that with the greatest respect .. luv the blues ,

[Khultan]

I'm not feeling it.

[daddyblue123456]

LuvYa Daddystovepipe!!!

[freejrs]

@daddystovepipe

Sounds mean as hell to me. Keep it dirty and leave the clean stuff for the acoustic!!!

Great track here. Cigar-tar sounds absolutely beautiful if you listen with the right ears.

I sometimes wake up in the mornings with one of your melodies in my head.

Thanks Daddystovepipe.

[Hatredismypride]

Cool...this is why daddystovie is my idol in guitar...

[eyhternouloub]

beautyfull ! !