No I’ve heard it and it’s bad-ass. Blake is like a beacon of light for guitar but also his lyrical phrasing and singing are beyond the beyond. I’ve also found his techniques open up cool possibilities in my own songs.
Amazing work. Thank you for keeping him heard after 100 years. I've been waiting for someone to cover this song in it's tuning since I heard Blind Blake when I was 13. I'm so happy we found his grave and are making him known to his fans. Muireann Bradley does an amazing cover. I'm glad to see my generation getting know these tunes from these incredibly influenced people from the south:) Beautiful guitar
Thanks! It’s an honoring of Blake, the inimitable maestro, but also, learning Blake makes solo guitar more versatile-particularly the thumbroll which Blake throws in quite often and gets you outside the standard two-beat. It can be used in most any style.
I can say it’s practice but when it’s time to play the song you don’t want your brain to get in the way. Ive noticed if I make a mistake early on and then say, ahh fuck it, just play, then usually the brain gets out of the way, 🤷🏽, and the rest goes fine.
It is hard to know exactly his right hand as the recording is very old and all mid range-particularly his forefinger is heavy before the downbeat with the thumb. That can be misconstrued as a thumbroll, which he does, for instance, during the third guitar solo (playing two bass notes with one thumb stroke).
Thanks much! Yeah, the original is prob a hair faster than my cover but Blake never felt rushed because he's so even and there is a possibility the recording was sped up a little bit from the speed at which it was played.
@@domdimensions9219 My first guitar was a Stella about 65 years ago- my step dad saw it in a dumpster and brought it home to me, I was about 12 and I’m 78 now. You never forget your first love- I’m still playing today - I don’t know what ever happened to her
I remember trying to learn this from a cassette tape with tablature in… must have been the late ‘80s. And breaking strings tuning up instead of down. I never did master it but you sure have!
I think one of the keys is Blake hit a lot of treble notes with the thumb so the riff sits in there nicely with the standard thumb two-beat. I actually tuned up to open E there. But really, one can only try as Blake is inimitable!
Thanks! Actually we really don’t know how Blake played exactly but I think for certain he did use at least thumb and two fingers. For instance, listen to Georgia Bound, the end of the first guitar break when he goes to the G chord-cannot do that move without two fingers. He also does a very quick run on the G chord in Chump Man Blues which indicates he must have used that middle finger. Rev Gary Davis only used thumb and one finger, amazingly.
@@jlstilesmusic True that. Some songs can deffo be played with one. John Jackson used one when doin Blake and two when doin MJH f. ex. Gary was the penultimate ragtime player. To me #1
@@bleakcandour Yeah, Rev Gary is top notch, different than Blake in that Davis goes for bass movements up on the neck more so than Blake, more complex, more single notes, too. I will get around to posting some of Davis' stuff. Used to play Two Step Candyman, Buck Rag, Cincinnati Flow, St Louis Tickle--that one gets me ver klempt, just fabulous. Blake is more about the thumbroll, perhaps most typified in West Coast Blues or in the breaks of Police Dog (the beginning of 3rd break, for example). Davis thumbrolled as well but not to that extent and John Hurt never thumbrolled. The folk techniques are the best for songwriters, imo.
It goes to the B7 as you know, and the part in question is G diminished, which is like an F# 7 and back to B7 etc. This is a standard rag blues progression-goes to the 5 chord like when a blues does but then goes 2-5 (half measure each) back to the 1 instead of 4 back to the 1. In E, the 2 is an F#, the 5 is B, the 4 is an A. Note I’m playing in open E-EBEG#BE on guitar, which lends itself so well to this. The G dim I play has fingering on fret 2 on 5th, fret 3 on 4th, fret 2 on the 3rd.
The poet Wallace Stevens said: "Every image is a restatement of the subject of the image in terms of an attitude". So in music. Where the image is the melody, the chords, the modulations. But as in poetry, in music we also look for “the terms of an attitude”.
Your comment is very hard to understand but I’ll quote in jest Muhammad Ali when Howard Cosell remarked to him he was “less truculent” before a certain bout. Ali said, “I don’t know what truculent means but if it’s good, I’m it.”
It’s a blue ridge parlor from 2010, not expensive but I put on 13 gauge to fatten it up-shoujd maybe do 14’s, even, but then it gets stiff and might lift up the bridge.
Thanks!!! It’s a very economical $800 blueridge parlor I bought new several years ago but I did use medium gauge strings because the 12-gauge are too weak sounding, esp on the bass strings.
Thanks. There was no mixing as this is just an iPhone video and sound with a little external usb mic sitting on the desk 🤷🏽. The mic is a little better than the iPhone mic maybe but the advantage is I could lie it a little closer on the desk. I didn’t use a capo but the guitar is a blue ridge parlor about 2012.
Thanks! I learned by listening and never used tabs nor have I ever written them out. I would tune to open E and just get the thumb first, perhaps. There are some spots where I do the thumbroll, which hits two bass notes with one stroke-this is generally the hardest part about playing Blake’s stuff.
I haven’t any sheet music for this but rather learned from the recording by Blind Blake. It’s in open E tuning EBEG#BE and I think via the video you can get the riffs but there is a whole technique built around the right hand there-I think you can get it if you watch it slowed down, particularly.
@@jlstilesmusic thank you! I had no idea the tuning was different.Thanks! I come from playing classical guitar music like bach and segovia transcriptions so this is new and exciting for me
It’s just a blueridge parlor from maybe 8 or so years ago with medium gauge (13’s) strings because the scale length is pretty short so 12’s are too flabby.
Maybe they didn't think it would become a worldwide phenomenon. I view a great songwriter, singer and guitarist like Blake as a wellspring for lots of different kinds of songs and songwriting. He is pretty much unattainable though it's a good practice to hear and try to get his nuance.
Great song. Excellent rendition. 👍
Young Irish lass Muireann Bradley does a good cover too. Hope that doesn't offend anyone.
No I’ve heard it and it’s bad-ass. Blake is like a beacon of light for guitar but also his lyrical phrasing and singing are beyond the beyond. I’ve also found his techniques open up cool possibilities in my own songs.
Far from it! Miureann is a wonderful player and singer. Excellent to see her referenced here. Two great versions!
Awesome job. You have a young soulmate in Ballybofey County Donegal Ireland. Muireann Bradley. 17
How would that be offensive?
If that statement offends someone, then that's their problem. That young lady can pick it!
Excellent, thank you. Great playing, great singing. Great sounding guitar too.
Great tone from that guitar (and your fingers)! Nice work.
I agree, that tone is wonderful.
Bloody hell, this is some pretty unfiltered stuff, just like an original masterpiece. Спасибо!
Much appreciated!
I was very impressed by your performance and singing.
Bless you.
From Japan.
I’m a guitar man for at least 60 years and your execution of such a simple progression is really impressive, I’m impressed- thanks !
Amazing work.
Thank you for keeping him heard after 100 years.
I've been waiting for someone to cover this song in it's tuning since I heard Blind Blake when I was 13. I'm so happy we found his grave and are making him known to his fans.
Muireann Bradley does an amazing cover. I'm glad to see my generation getting know these tunes from these incredibly influenced people from the south:)
Beautiful guitar
Thanks! It’s an honoring of Blake, the inimitable maestro, but also, learning Blake makes solo guitar more versatile-particularly the thumbroll which Blake throws in quite often and gets you outside the standard two-beat. It can be used in most any style.
Check out Jorma Kaukonen's version on "Quah"
Outstanding. Both your playing and singing are first class.
Much appreciated!
How on earth it is possible to play like that and sing at the same time?? SO cool man amazing!
I can say it’s practice but when it’s time to play the song you don’t want your brain to get in the way. Ive noticed if I make a mistake early on and then say, ahh fuck it, just play, then usually the brain gets out of the way, 🤷🏽, and the rest goes fine.
Trey--
Real nice. I played it about 3 x. Instant Subscriber.
Made my day
Very nice rendition or this all time favorite
You've captured it brilliantly. Just subscribed
Wonderful to hear, thanks!
You play this one so beautifully 💙
Thanks, amiga!
Brilliant!
Excellent performance, sir. Fine pickin', good vocals - got it all together. Thanks for sharing.
Ahh wowie great to hear the blues is making it back 🎉love it 👍👍🎉
i thought you said "i shit my drawers, down in Tennessee!! XD first time hearing. love the cover
That line is for a very old blues man. I’m not there yet…
Thanks for sharing your talent cheers
Great foot tapping time.😄
EXCALIBUR JOB
Reminds Me Of The legend Of The Waco Kid! Great Vocals And Guitar Playing.
Not sure what yer referring to other than gene wilder in blazing saddles😂
best cover ive heard
very nice guitar , im learming deep river blues , nearly got it down , not the tommey version .great olde songs cheers mate . IRELAND ...
From 6000 miles away or so here in El Cerrito, CA, cheers!
inspiring to see and hear you play this
Glad to hear it!
Fantastic stuff! I just subscribed to your channel and I look forward to seeing & hearing more!
Great singing and playing.
Excellent, love your hat as well🎸🎩
Thank you kindly!
Great Song, great cover
that made my day .....really nicely done thank you very much ...from an old MJH fan
great performance
Now I know how Blind Blake plays it
It is hard to know exactly his right hand as the recording is very old and all mid range-particularly his forefinger is heavy before the downbeat with the thumb. That can be misconstrued as a thumbroll, which he does, for instance, during the third guitar solo (playing two bass notes with one thumb stroke).
@@jlstilesmusic I see. I understand very well! Thank you!
Lovin ya work!! 👍🏻👍🏻🤘✌️
Glad to hear it--this encourages me to make some more!
I’ve been fingerstyle forever, (got a 000-15m used, love it). Never have figured that one out. Love the little intro to that tune.
With that tune the thumbroll is important, two notes in one stroke, ka-thunk like. He does it more in some of the others I put up here
brilliant! Thank you for this.
Thanks, happy you like it!
I enjoyed that ! Thank you.
I tried slowing it down a bit and thought it still sounded good.
Thanks much! Yeah, the original is prob a hair faster than my cover but Blake never felt rushed because he's so even and there is a possibility the recording was sped up a little bit from the speed at which it was played.
Great rendition👏👏
Thanks for listening!
Good job.
wow nice play amazing
Thanks for stopping by!
I'm so glad you tackled this song and did such an awesome job.
Now do dry bone shuffle 😉
Best I’ve heard so far. Great job!
Thanks!!!
This is very good!
This is a really great song. Nice guitar playing. That vintage stella guitar has a vibe.
Well, it’s a 2012 Blueridge Parlor guitar so not vintage but i put heavy gauge strings on it to beef it up a bit.
@@domdimensions9219 My first guitar was a Stella about 65 years ago- my step dad saw it in a dumpster and brought it home to me, I was about 12 and I’m 78 now. You never forget your first love- I’m still playing today - I don’t know what ever happened to her
@@jlstilesmusic haha yeah. I accidentially commented on this video with this comment. A little youtube glitch. Blueridge makes some nice guitars.
Шикарный цилиндр !
Nice job
Great cover! and i love your song "simple fools of faith"
I think I’ll put the “simple fools of faith” vid up there next, then, when I get a chance.
Top notch, Mate!
Good stuff bro
Lovely!
🙏
I remember trying to learn this from a cassette tape with tablature in… must have been the late ‘80s. And breaking strings tuning up instead of down. I never did master it but you sure have!
I think one of the keys is Blake hit a lot of treble notes with the thumb so the riff sits in there nicely with the standard thumb two-beat. I actually tuned up to open E there. But really, one can only try as Blake is inimitable!
its so cool!
Inspiring. Thank you for mqking ny day better. Cheers!
I’m glad you liked it! Take care out there!
Nice playing. I’m considering buying a 2001 Tele and looking for videos of them.
Sweet. 🎉 !¡!!!¡!¡
Great version. I also just subscribed
Awesome, thank you!
perfect！
Excellent stuff........
Many thanks!
Cool 😎
Ha! Thank you! That made my day!
Making it look so easy :)
Thanks much, you're a fine player.
Ry Cooder also has a great version of this.
Oh yes, Ry’s is an excellent version
great man
Thanks, it’s great to hear.
Jorma Kaukonen version ! Waiting for some Reverendo Gary Davis covers.....
Rev Gary Davis to come in time, gotta do cinc flow rag, buck rag, st Louis tickle one of these days-used to be part of my set!
Great one. You've got a lovely voice. Now, to think that Blake played with ONE finger only on his right hand. Sportin', fo' sure!
Thanks! Actually we really don’t know how Blake played exactly but I think for certain he did use at least thumb and two fingers. For instance, listen to Georgia Bound, the end of the first guitar break when he goes to the G chord-cannot do that move without two fingers. He also does a very quick run on the G chord in Chump Man Blues which indicates he must have used that middle finger. Rev Gary Davis only used thumb and one finger, amazingly.
@@jlstilesmusic True that. Some songs can deffo be played with one. John Jackson used one when doin Blake and two when doin MJH f. ex.
Gary was the penultimate ragtime player. To me #1
@@bleakcandour Yeah, Rev Gary is top notch, different than Blake in that Davis goes for bass movements up on the neck more so than Blake, more complex, more single notes, too. I will get around to posting some of Davis' stuff. Used to play Two Step Candyman, Buck Rag, Cincinnati Flow, St Louis Tickle--that one gets me ver klempt, just fabulous. Blake is more about the thumbroll, perhaps most typified in West Coast Blues or in the breaks of Police Dog (the beginning of 3rd break, for example). Davis thumbrolled as well but not to that extent and John Hurt never thumbrolled. The folk techniques are the best for songwriters, imo.
@@bleakcandour Penultimate means second best.
@@jlstilesmusic Doc Watson only used thumb and index.
Absolutely wonderful. Congratulations!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.
отлично получается играть и петь ! кантри блюз )
Not sure what this means but I hope it’s good!!
love it!
Ok wow.
This is totally happening ❤
Nice
Thanks!
Nice bro 😎
Thanks ✌
You look like Gene. You play Awesome.
Not sure who Gene is but thanks!
Wonka!
Great version! Really enjoyed that and subscribed. What kind of guitar are you playing? Great tone and love that pyramid bridge.
Thanks! That’s a blue ridge parlor from 2011 with 13 gauge strings.
I really love this version. JL can you help me out? What are the three chords you play at "staying alone and doing the best I can"...
It goes to the B7 as you know, and the part in question is G diminished, which is like an F# 7 and back to B7 etc. This is a standard rag blues progression-goes to the 5 chord like when a blues does but then goes 2-5 (half measure each) back to the 1 instead of 4 back to the 1. In E, the 2 is an F#, the 5 is B, the 4 is an A. Note I’m playing in open E-EBEG#BE on guitar, which lends itself so well to this. The G dim I play has fingering on fret 2 on 5th, fret 3 on 4th, fret 2 on the 3rd.
@@jlstilesmusic thank you!!! I really appreciate it!!!
Jelly roll is served.
The poet Wallace Stevens said: "Every image is a restatement of the subject of the image in terms of an attitude".
So in music. Where the image is the melody, the chords, the modulations. But as in poetry, in music we also look for “the terms of an attitude”.
Your comment is very hard to understand but I’ll quote in jest Muhammad Ali when Howard Cosell remarked to him he was “less truculent” before a certain bout. Ali said, “I don’t know what truculent means but if it’s good, I’m it.”
just the job!
sad eyes--but great playing
Oh jeez, I’m too serious, 😆…note to self: Lighten up, lighten the f up…
Good picking. What is that guitar? Yes that young Irish lass is talented.
Thanks, the guitar is nothing special, a blue ridge parlor from 12 yrs ago but I put 13-gauge strings on it so the bass isn’t too flabby
Great version and a perfect guitar for the job! Who made it?
It’s a blue ridge parlor from 2010, not expensive but I put on 13 gauge to fatten it up-shoujd maybe do 14’s, even, but then it gets stiff and might lift up the bridge.
11/10
I Likeeee
Brazillllll
Awesome picking and nice tone. Custom parlor guitar?😉
Thanks!!! It’s a very economical $800 blueridge parlor I bought new several years ago but I did use medium gauge strings because the 12-gauge are too weak sounding, esp on the bass strings.
@@jlstilesmusic So you use 13-gauge? Impressive.
Yes, on that guitar.
What kind of Capo is that? Just Curious? Whoever does the mixing of your songs does an excellent job.
Thanks. There was no mixing as this is just an iPhone video and sound with a little external usb mic sitting on the desk 🤷🏽. The mic is a little better than the iPhone mic maybe but the advantage is I could lie it a little closer on the desk. I didn’t use a capo but the guitar is a blue ridge parlor about 2012.
Lol - How Strange, I left this comment on the Video I watched before, and the comment showed up here also. Thanks for replying though!
Like your guitar 😅😅
She’s just a blueridge parlor with 13’s but I like her, too!
Ahh, those days are behind me….
What days? I hope not days of being attacked by police dogs…
I’ve got a heck of a right hand (I very rarely use a flat pick). Just no patience or discipline. 😵💫
Just need to get baked and play guitar all day-you likely have too much discipline, 🤣🤣
👍
hey great cover of this amazing song. I was wondering if you can possibly share the tabs?
Thanks! I learned by listening and never used tabs nor have I ever written them out. I would tune to open E and just get the thumb first, perhaps. There are some spots where I do the thumbroll, which hits two bass notes with one stroke-this is generally the hardest part about playing Blake’s stuff.
@@jlstilesmusic Oh okay that you for the advice on how to learn this song.
Excellent Playing/Singing! What guitar are you playing there?
Thanks. Thats a blueridge parlor from 12 yrs ago with 13 gauge strings-could bump it up to 14’s but that’s pretty stiff
Can you please link the sheet music so we can learn how to play this song
I haven’t any sheet music for this but rather learned from the recording by Blind Blake. It’s in open E tuning EBEG#BE and I think via the video you can get the riffs but there is a whole technique built around the right hand there-I think you can get it if you watch it slowed down, particularly.
@@jlstilesmusic thank you! I had no idea the tuning was different.Thanks! I come from playing classical guitar music like bach and segovia transcriptions so this is new and exciting for me
This is great! What's that guitar??
A blueridge parlor from 12 years ago with 13’s on it.
☆☆☆☆☆what's the open tuning, sir
Thanks-Open E, EBEG#BE
Many do the blues ..a few sound like the blues..
And we all get the blues…
Hi! What kind of guitar is this? Thank you.
It’s a blueridge parlor from about 12 years ago but I did put 13 gauge on there-coujd even do 14’s but that’s getting pretty stiff
is that open D tuning?
It’s open E, same thing as open D but no capo on 2nd fret
@@jlstilesmusic thank you
Which Guitar ?
It’s just a blueridge parlor from maybe 8 or so years ago with medium gauge (13’s) strings because the scale length is pretty short so 12’s are too flabby.
I was going to ask the same question. Blueridge BR-341? Sounds great, and great playing!
What is that guitar?
It’s a 2012 blueridge parlor with 13’s
I'll bet all these black guys from the 20s and 30s never would have thought their music would have become the White Man's music 😅
Maybe they didn't think it would become a worldwide phenomenon. I view a great songwriter, singer and guitarist like Blake as a wellspring for lots of different kinds of songs and songwriting. He is pretty much unattainable though it's a good practice to hear and try to get his nuance.
I also sh*t my trunks in Tennessee.
Not sure how respond to this but that was bad chicken fried steak?
Man, that is some serious picking. Blind Blake has always been a bridge too far for me. Nice little guitar too.
Thanks and Blake is a bridge too far for everyone, imo, but it’s worthy to chase the dream!!!
Sow
Not sure what sow means but I hope it’s good!