From "An Offer You Can't Refuse:" This is Walter Horton (Big Walter) with Robert Nighthawk on guitar. Notice that the guitar is tuned down to D, and Walter is playing cross-harp using a "G" harmonica, the lowest-pitched standard harmonica available at that time. It really sits down low, and the groove is fantastic…it's all about "feel."
Albert King, who played the guitar left-handed and upside down! In other words, he took a normally right-handed and strung guitar, simply turned it around upside down, and played it left-handed. This put his high strings on top, and his bass strings on bottom. This no doubt contributed to his unique bending style, as he had to "pull" the high strings to bend them, otherwise, he's run out of fingerboard space...
Note that this one is in the unusual key of Db, which gives the bass player the lowest "F" for the riff. This key may also be due to the fact that there are horns, ya think?
I always liked Canned Heat, as long as Bob Hite and Alan Wilson were in it. This is from the first album on Liberty, with the very distinctive voice and harp of Al Wilson. There will never be another bluesman like him!
Nice. Through this I came to look up Amos Garrett. Here's a beautiful dreamy blues. The playing on the mini guitar looks a bit akward but it sounds great. How to play slide without a slide.
I didn't know this song but it's a 59 classic by Santo and Johnny Farina brothers.
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