Scott Ainslie's "My Home is in the Delta"

This recording of one of Muddy Waters' great tunes was made at the New England Youth Theater in Brattleboro, Vt on November 30th, 2007.

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Music

Tags:

• blues
• muddy
• delta
• slide
• Ainslie
• clapton
• raitt
• acoustic
• guitar

[rjholzman1]

What tuning do you play this in?

[scottainslie]

@rjholzman1

This is in standard tuning. Nice trick. David Honeyboy Edwards and Muddy Waters both played some of their E blues in standard with slide. The trick here is muting both behind the slide and with the picking hand: pick blocking commonly used by lap steel and dobro players. I wrote and shot a brief video about this in my article on Robert Johnson's playing for Acoustic Guitar magazine back last November. The first video, Come On In My Kitchen, demonstrates the muting technique well.

[scottainslie]

Thanks, guys. And I assume, Sociald, that that's pronounced like the Scottish Fookin'. The Irish way around the niceties is 'friggin', which has a certain charm to it as well....

s.

[freakoutXtreme]

the real deal :) the real mcoy thats you :) hehe great play, really soulfull really great blues :)

Made my day.

[rmbb10]

Awesome.

[Sociald6666]

Fukin Great Man!!!!! Love your slide playing too!!!!

[nboey]

scott

great stuff

[sandbreak2]

To bad your videos "drowns" amongst thousands of other great music videos because you`re a damn great guitarist and deserves more views.