2 minutes of refined class and pure inspiration. Music is truly universal. Thank you. For 2 minutes the world was a better place. Fan-friggin-tastic!!!
I'm 25, ever since I listened to Robert Johnson's "Crossroads" and Blind Lemon Jefferson "bad luck blues" and Ledbelly's "I'm leaving on the morning train" . I have been learning these tricks since then. I want be like you a senior and still bring the environment to a stop. Thanks for the encouragement ✨
I heard the same sounds in 1968, age 16 and now I am 70 and learning John Henry in open D with a slide. Welcome aboard. Also check Edward Phillips if you haven’t already
Thank you. I have been overwhelmed by the positive comments this has received recently. I tried to make a living out of music supported by the lovely lady, my wife Jan, who shot the video on a Nokia 8G phone. We did it just to help sell the guitar as frankly I was making less than nothing (after travelling expenses, friends and music buddies would accommodate me if overnight stays were needed or I'd just kip in quiet laybys., I've always been able to sleep pretty much anywhere provided it felt safe...but I digress. I'm summary I'm very priveledged to get such recognition, even if I was only a 'legend in his own lunchtime' to quote someone long forgotten. Love, Peace, Music. Simple.
@@EricThomasHunterSweetland man your cover of this song is my favourite thing to listen to, and I listen to a lot of damn music lol. I’m a couple months into my guitar journey at 18 right now and this video has opened up a whole new world to me. I’m motivated to play slide more then anything else. Thank you🙏
i fear i've discovered your immense talent and passion 10 years late. what gorgeous tune/tone you can make sing from that resonator! im just getting guitar lessons myself and can only hope to play slide/blues in general as beautifully as you did here.
Thank you for your comments but it's never too late to learn something new :-) Keep on learning and keep on playing, you will get there, and there are loads of excellent tutorial on-line these days. Enjoy. Love, Peace & Music.
I'm glad you find it worth re-visiting. When I posted it I had zero Idea how many people would want to see and hear it but it makes me happy to see they do. Love, Peace and Music.
Many thanks, my voice comes from deep south Kent ;-) It was the first video I uploaded to you tube, simply 'cause I was unfortunately selling the Dobro to help pay the mortgage :-( However, I expect I will do another in time, with all the verses, thanks again.
+Eric Thomas Hunter Sweetland ...brother ,my grand dad used play these sounds,like you do,,it has ingrained in my soul,and you nailed it man...the reincarnation of bob devore....thanks for bringing grandad back,in real time
Did you enable monitization or whatever its called? For 700k views you could have made almost 1k usd from this video. Might be something to keep in mind
Slides are difficult and touchy to play well...lots of guys are just making noise...not damping, bumping frets, banging away on 5th and 7th frets only.
Almost a million and a half hits.. left them all smiling wish i could slow it down to pick up that roll.. matters not.. killer song. 2 minutes and 18 seconds, sweet
Thank you Doris, I really appreciate that. I will see if it's possible to re-load it after a slo-mo edit, if I can't maybe my son #tomsweetland will be able to advise me, but in any case I intend to try re-recording it 'soon' with the superb camera he gave me for my birthday last year. It's so complicated it's taken me most of that time to discover how it works... what do you mean, read the manual, surely thats a last resort ;-) Love, peace & music xc
Thanks. It is my version of the famous Robert Johnson song, influenced by people I've played with and Roy Rogers who made an excellent slide guitar video tuition video and produced John Lee Hooker albums. I recommend you check him out but glad you enjoyed my little stab at Walking Blues :-) Love, Peace & Music to you and yours.
I learnt it by a combination of listening many times to R.J's original, studying Roy Rogers excellent slide guitar video, watching and listening to other 'covers' of the song and finally practicing bar by bar until I got what you hear. Thanks for the comments everyone. It's a genuine Dobro that I bought secondhand & re-fretted & fettled, adding the Stratocaster pickup at the neck to body point, but it's completely acoustic in this video, shot on a Nokia N96 8G by my wife Jan.
couldnt help but comment,used to hear a lot of blues from my granfather,who played in open tunings,as well as standard,and its been like 30 years,since i heard his sound.my grandfather learned to play the blues on a cardboard shoebox with rubber bands for strings, when he plays it on a guitar,it sounds like eric does.
Hi Daz, thanks for the comment. I don't have the tab for Walking Blues in this arrangement, or any for that matter, I learnt it by ear from a video tutorial by Roy Rogers who used to play with John Lee Hooker & produce him. I think that video and tab are still available in UK, my version is similar but not identical. Best wishes for the new year, Tom.
Thanks for your kind comment, it does sound good, I hope it's still being played somewhere in Europe :-) I don't know about Bono, never met the chap but I think it's the stage persona he portrays ;-) Love, peace & music to you and yours this season :-)
I didn't know that, thanks :-) Due to my previous studies I did know that the name 'Dobro' came about due to mixing the name of Dopyera Brothers who founded the company back in the 1920's when a louder guitar was needed to compete with other instruments. My Grandmother played piano for silent films which is part of the story. Wikipedia will fill in the gaps in what may seem a digression :-) Love & peace to all. Tom.
Hi, thanks for your comment & suggestion. I have added the info to the title as I don't have time to re-do the other titling but will get round to it when 'proper' work eases up (if ever ;-) Thanks again, Tom.
Callum Johnston, no sir, close, brass body nickel plated with a biscuit bridge. A spider cone has a rather different sound but I admit the recording doesn't quite do it justice. Thanks for looking and commenting too :-)
Eric Thomas Hunter Sweetland Sorry - that’s not what I meant! I meant keep feeling the blues and playing them but don’t get sucked into the dark side of the blues...a lot of old blues musicians ended up living out the sad stories of their songs. I guess we all have to touch those emotions in some ways to connect to this music but keep on doing what you’re doing! Keep on the sunny side of life ...
You are most welcome Mark. I've 'tutorialed' the tuning for this on a 'new' video that I'm about to upload in the next few days. I just need a bit more feedback on it before I get to post it. The tuning top E to bottom E is as follows: 1 - E. 2 - B. 3 - G#. 4 - E. 5 - B., and finally 6 - E. This is the tuning I use for 11 & 12 thou top string sets. I often slacken all by 2 semi-tones for performance and vocal range matching. Your '29 Dobro will sound great with fat strings! Single cone? Love 'em
Yes. If remember rightly it was dropped 2 semi-tones, maybe 3 with .015 top E and the rest in proportion, and tuned to the chord E which gives the lovely open shape chords for the IV and V, which used in combination with the slide and fingerpicking makes it sound really fat but distinct. Thanks for your comment, much appreciated.
Thanks for your comment. You are absolutely right. I can manage it fine with a live audience but really hard to a camera still. Love, peace & music, Tom.
Since confesion cleanses the soul I will tell you up front that Im going to steal a few of your lics.Great feel for the blues,technique too .Really enjoy what you are doing. Thx from Lake Dore Ontario Canada
Thanks for asking, please help me and check down previous comments & questions on this. I need to know if my subscribers can see them. I've answered the question often - and in many ways ;-) but I think they are there still. It's basically 'D' but please message me back if you can see all the other answers I've made. Thanks again, Tom
And thanks, I appreciate the comment, I continue to practice and record a little, was doing some last night after work, and am still learning. I think ''it's a journey'' is the phrase often used :-) You can ask more questions direct to me at reverb nation. For some strange reason you tube dont allow posting web links in replies, I have no idea why (puzzled).
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ressonator guitar blues is just so cool.
THIS right here is why I want to add a resonator/dobro to my "collection" of guitars. Such a unique sound. Fantastic playing, sir.
Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it :-)
2 minutes of refined class and pure inspiration. Music is truly universal. Thank you. For 2 minutes the world was a better place. Fan-friggin-tastic!!!
Wow!
So nice to see positive comments, and sorry I don't always see them but that is a very encouraging comment thank you.
Lovely sound
@@EricThomasHunterSweetland nice work. Carry on please
I'm 25, ever since I listened to Robert Johnson's "Crossroads" and Blind Lemon Jefferson "bad luck blues" and Ledbelly's "I'm leaving on the morning train" . I have been learning these tricks since then. I want be like you a senior and still bring the environment to a stop. Thanks for the encouragement ✨
Many thanks for your kind comments x
I heard the same sounds in 1968, age 16 and now I am 70 and learning John Henry in open D with a slide. Welcome aboard. Also check Edward Phillips if you haven’t already
@@jane55ism The 60s sound like a time that shouldn't exist. My generation Z missed out. I'll keep these southern style heard when I'm over 50:)
Another hidden gem youtube recommendation, nice!
Thank you. I have been overwhelmed by the positive comments this has received recently.
I tried to make a living out of music supported by the lovely lady, my wife Jan, who shot the video on a Nokia 8G phone.
We did it just to help sell the guitar as frankly I was making less than nothing (after travelling expenses, friends and music buddies would accommodate me if overnight stays were needed or I'd just kip in quiet laybys., I've always been able to sleep pretty much anywhere provided it felt safe...but I digress.
I'm summary I'm very priveledged to get such recognition, even if I was only a 'legend in his own lunchtime' to quote someone long forgotten.
Love, Peace, Music. Simple.
@@EricThomasHunterSweetland man your cover of this song is my favourite thing to listen to, and I listen to a lot of damn music lol.
I’m a couple months into my guitar journey at 18 right now and this video has opened up a whole new world to me. I’m motivated to play slide more then anything else. Thank you🙏
i fear i've discovered your immense talent and passion 10 years late. what gorgeous tune/tone you can make sing from that resonator! im just getting guitar lessons myself and can only hope to play slide/blues in general as beautifully as you did here.
Thank you for your comments but it's never too late to learn something new :-)
Keep on learning and keep on playing, you will get there, and there are loads of excellent tutorial on-line these days. Enjoy.
Love, Peace & Music.
I found this video a few years ago and I keep coming back to listen to it
I'm glad you find it worth re-visiting. When I posted it I had zero Idea how many people would want to see and hear it but it makes me happy to see they do.
Love, Peace and Music.
Many thanks, my voice comes from deep south Kent ;-)
It was the first video I uploaded to you tube, simply 'cause I was unfortunately selling the Dobro to help pay the mortgage :-(
However, I expect I will do another in time, with all the verses, thanks again.
+Eric Thomas Hunter Sweetland ...brother ,my grand dad used play these sounds,like you do,,it has ingrained in my soul,and you nailed it man...the reincarnation of bob devore....thanks for bringing grandad back,in real time
hope you kept the Dobro!
I'm glad you found the video my friend, I'm very pleased to have been able to get it out there for you.
Love, peace & music to you and yours :-)
Got another :-)
Did you enable monitization or whatever its called? For 700k views you could have made almost 1k usd from this video. Might be something to keep in mind
I can't even begin to imagine how many hours of practice went into the making of this video. The skill shines through.
Slides are difficult and touchy to play well...lots of guys are just making noise...not damping, bumping frets, banging away on 5th and 7th frets only.
Almost a million and a half hits.. left them all smiling wish i could slow it down to pick up that roll.. matters not.. killer song. 2 minutes and 18 seconds, sweet
Thank you Doris, I really appreciate that. I will see if it's possible to re-load it after a slo-mo edit, if I can't maybe my son #tomsweetland will be able to advise me, but in any case I intend to try re-recording it 'soon' with the superb camera he gave me for my birthday last year. It's so complicated it's taken me most of that time to discover how it works... what do you mean, read the manual, surely thats a last resort ;-)
Love, peace & music xc
Awesome! Never knew Coach Lou Holtz could play guitar like that!!
Damm!! Doesnt happen too often, but this gave me a chill right up my spine, right at the end of the first verse! This man has certainly got a Mojo! 👍
Thanks for your kind comment.
Beautiful resonator. And he knows how to use the whole damn thing.
Many thanks. Your encouragement keeps me going.
Hoping to post some new, more technical stuff with my Vintage Resonator soon :-)
Ten years late catching this... but AWESOME!
Well imitation is the sincerest form of flattery so I'm duly pleased and flattered. Thanks for your kind comments :-)
You've got that dobro smokin' friend. I enjoyed it.
Many thanks :-)
Great talent! Thank you so much for sharing! God bless everyone
not sure how folks could thumbs down this video...good stuff and great fill...thanks
Just thank to people like him, able to bring Robert Jhonson back from death to hear a nice version of him self... More than 80 years later.
That Sir is a heavy duty compliment.
I thank you.
Ive watched this video at least 10 times over the past few weeks. I really like your song.
Thanks. It is my version of the famous Robert Johnson song, influenced by people I've played with and Roy Rogers who made an excellent slide guitar video tuition video and produced John Lee Hooker albums.
I recommend you check him out but glad you enjoyed my little stab at Walking Blues :-)
Love, Peace & Music to you and yours.
I learnt it by a combination of listening many times to R.J's original, studying Roy Rogers excellent slide guitar video, watching and listening to other 'covers' of the song and finally practicing bar by bar until I got what you hear. Thanks for the comments everyone. It's a genuine Dobro that I bought secondhand & re-fretted & fettled, adding the Stratocaster pickup at the neck to body point, but it's completely acoustic in this video, shot on a Nokia N96 8G by my wife Jan.
Bonjour Monsieur et merci pour ce bon moment.
couldnt help but comment,used to hear a lot of blues from my granfather,who played in open tunings,as well as standard,and its been like 30 years,since i heard his sound.my grandfather learned to play the blues on a cardboard shoebox with rubber bands for strings, when he plays it on a guitar,it sounds like eric does.
Thanks. That's a real encouragement to keep on playing :-)
Much appreciated.
Just gotta day how much I dig everything about this video.
Thank you :-)
Great! i love this sound since 50 years. cant get enough of them.tanks for the video.
And it's still gold!
That's some great playing,i can almost taste the whiskey and smell the smoke
Nice playing nice to see uk players on youtube playing blues
Keep on Rocking in the Free World!
I love
D that small piece love the steel
i hear this song up and down. i love you play, and the sound of you`re voice
Hi Daz, thanks for the comment. I don't have the tab for Walking Blues in this arrangement, or any for that matter, I learnt it by ear from a video tutorial by Roy Rogers who used to play with John Lee Hooker & produce him. I think that video and tab are still available in UK, my version is similar but not identical.
Best wishes for the new year,
Tom.
Amazing slide bluesguitar British man!
Thank you for posting your performance, I like it. Thank you Maestro.
This is the path to happiness. Thanks a lot.
You're welcome. I'm glad you enjoyed it :-)
Well I love this music and I'm happy you enjoyed it too :-)
Love, Peace, Music X
That was superb sir! Very inspirational. Thank you very very much!
Good, I'm very glad to hear it. Makes all the difference when folks appreciate :-)
I've always loved this song
Awesome playing man, bought a smile to my face. Blues and resonators go together Bono and arrogance
Thanks for your kind comment, it does sound good, I hope it's still being played somewhere in Europe :-)
I don't know about Bono, never met the chap but I think it's the stage persona he portrays ;-)
Love, peace & music to you and yours this season :-)
I didn't know that, thanks :-)
Due to my previous studies I did know that the name 'Dobro' came about due to mixing the name of Dopyera Brothers who founded the company back in the 1920's when a louder guitar was needed to compete with other instruments.
My Grandmother played piano for silent films which is part of the story. Wikipedia will fill in the gaps in what may seem a digression :-)
Love & peace to all. Tom.
Thoroughly enjoyed this. Thank you
I keep watching this.I love it.
Good Job Sir! I lke this Robert Johnson Song Walkin' Blues! I have the Gretsch G9221 Bobtail Steel! All good wishes from Black Forest/Germany!
@@dankemarx8125 Many thanks for your comment. I love the Schwatzwald ❤️
Best cover I ever heard
Many thanks :-)
Hi, thanks for your comment & suggestion. I have added the info to the title as I don't have time to re-do the other titling but will get round to it when 'proper' work eases up (if ever ;-)
Thanks again,
Tom.
Man that sure sounded good. Many thanks to you
Glad to hear you enjoyed it :-)
you do the instrument more than justice with your finely crafted playing. Congrats to you.
I wasn't expecting a Brit. Great job.
I love the sound of the guitar! soulful,
Thanks for the good music.
No problem. It is in what I call dropped D and the tuning is D A F# D A D hope that helps.
Tom :-)
Blew my mind. Thank you, that was simply amazing!
Very, Very Nice! I'd love to hear more!
a million, fivenice. That's amazing! Well deserved.
Fantastic, can't imagine what a guitar like that must cost, but it's price isn't wasted in your hands.
get out of your head and into your heart when you sing. Fantastic.
love live the blues
Very good. Like this a lot.
Thanks for posting it on TH-cam.
very nice.....great feeling and Pure blues soul....
Just fantastic.
Callum Johnston, no sir, close, brass body nickel plated with a biscuit bridge. A spider cone has a rather different sound but I admit the recording doesn't quite do it justice. Thanks for looking and commenting too :-)
Hi. Strange, like Callum Johnston, i was thinking about a spider cone because of the style of the coverplate. Thank for this video.
Very nice job. Great and smooth turnarounds, you’re feeling it for sure - keep up the great work, rock the blues but be HAPPY as you do it!
Thanks, I will try to be happier ;-)
Eric Thomas Hunter Sweetland Sorry - that’s not what I meant! I meant keep feeling the blues and playing them but don’t get sucked into the dark side of the blues...a lot of old blues musicians ended up living out the sad stories of their songs. I guess we all have to touch those emotions in some ways to connect to this music but keep on doing what you’re doing! Keep on the sunny side of life ...
@@tango-bravo ah, now I get you, thanks :-)
You are most welcome Mark. I've 'tutorialed' the tuning for this on a 'new' video that I'm about to upload in the next few days. I just need a bit more feedback on it before I get to post it. The tuning top E to bottom E is as follows: 1 - E. 2 - B. 3 - G#. 4 - E. 5 - B., and finally 6 - E. This is the tuning I use for 11 & 12 thou top string sets. I often slacken all by 2 semi-tones for performance and vocal range matching. Your '29 Dobro will sound great with fat strings! Single cone? Love 'em
Great, Very nice!!!! extremely beautiful!
NICE!! BRAVO!!!
Many thanks :-)
This guy is OK! Enjoyed very much
Thank you for your kind comments!
Yes. If remember rightly it was dropped 2 semi-tones, maybe 3 with .015 top E and the rest in proportion, and tuned to the chord E which gives the lovely open shape chords for the IV and V, which used in combination with the slide and fingerpicking makes it sound really fat but distinct.
Thanks for your comment, much appreciated.
Very very nice! Thanks for posting, mate 👍👍
Thanks for your comment. You are absolutely right. I can manage it fine with a live audience but really hard to a camera still.
Love, peace & music,
Tom.
Dude, This is so beautiful. May god bless you!
Thoroughly enjoyed that and would pay to hear you play live. You have a nice touch on your slides
Beautiful.
I live to hear music like this I swear
Thank you sir, or madam, appreciate the comments,
May love & peace rule the world rather than money & stuff!
Faaantastic played! Thank you very much for it!
Thanks for your kind comment.
Great guitar. Mississippi style blues.
Thank you :-)
thats on my favourites list it,s very good.
really nice playing, really authentic sounding!
Many thanks for your comment 😊
Since confesion cleanses the soul I will tell you up front that Im going to steal a few of your lics.Great feel for the blues,technique too .Really enjoy what you are doing.
Thx from Lake Dore Ontario Canada
Excellent. Very "together" performance. Enjoyed this a lot.
Great play nad song 💖💝💘💗💓
Thanks Eric and compliments to you, have a great week
I love it! I love it! congratulations!
Thanks for asking, please help me and check down previous comments & questions on this. I need to know if my subscribers can see them. I've answered the question often - and in many ways ;-) but I think they are there still. It's basically 'D' but please message me back if you can see all the other answers I've made.
Thanks again,
Tom
And thanks, I appreciate the comment, I continue to practice and record a little, was doing some last night after work, and am still learning. I think ''it's a journey'' is the phrase often used :-)
You can ask more questions direct to me at reverb nation. For some strange reason you tube dont allow posting web links in replies, I have no idea why (puzzled).
Nice !
Thanks for your way to play it.
It shows that the blues is still living.
The Dobro sounds like a rain forest in iteself. Slides Just love it!
Men such a classic!
What an awesome groove. I envy your talent sir!
Great playing, great ding!
Great video!
Great playing and soul. Bravo sir 👏🏽👏🏽 slide is epic
Watched it for the435th time.Thanks Eric.
Wow! Thanks.
That was fantastic. I just started playing acoustic slide but I hd the side on my ring finger. Now I see what I have to strengthen my pinky.
Me too & thanks again. The guitar was last seen in Romania, where I sold it on e-bay and the pro using it was very happy :-)
Tom.
Wow I absolutely love this ! The way you play and sing ... That's great blues for sure !
You're so welcome x
@@LizaPeninon damn you are lonely
You've got it!! Let's Blues!!! Yeah!
Thanks for sharing. Enjoyed very much!