![]() ![]() For the slide tunes, it's worth noting he's likely playing lap-style for most of them.Ī couple songs gave me a little trouble. I'd tune it back down when you're done though. For the tunes in Spanish, I tuned to open G and capoed to A, Bb, B, as needed, though you could easily get away with open A depending on your guitar. For Spoonful I just cranked up a resonator guitar to Vestapol at E. For standard tuning songs, I tuned to standard pitch then slapped on a capo, so E + 1 means he played out of an E position pitched to F, and so on. With some of these songs, I can see how he might have gone through several guitars doing this. With regards to the pitches Patton tunes to, it's been said he wasn't using a capo but tuned up one, two or several steps. Speed, clarity, presence - they're just better. I really noticed a difference switching back and forth between the JSP and these. Patton was actually pretty meticulous about tuning, I find, so this is a minor point worth making.įor those who don't have the Yazoos, get them. I've noted places where he is a bit sharp or flat in parentheses. I'm going to take Rich Nevins word for it that these are now the correct speeds, but what it does mean is that in Patton's later recordings, where most of these songs come from, he was tuned a bit flat or a bit sharp on several tunes. The second Yazoo Cd features another 8 tracks at corrected speeds: Revenue Man, Hang It On the Wall, Stone Pony, 34 Blues, Love My Stuff, Troubled Bout My Mother, Oh Death, and Poor Me. The first disc features speed corrections to "High Sheriff" and "Jersey Bull", and I think "Down the Dirt Road" is more true as well, at least compared to JSP. I used the remastered Yazoo CDs "The Best of Charlie Patton" and "Charlie Patton - Primeval Blues, Rags, and Gospel Songs" for all the songs available on those discs. ![]() The order of the tunes below follows the Revenant or JSP set, although if you have the JSP set, beware that they mislabel "Devil Sent the Rain" and "Magnolia Blues", switching one for the other. Following on waxwing's Blind Boy Fuller Guitar Keys post, I finished off the Patton Keys I'd been working on. ![]()
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