Michael Hattem
Nov 30, 2013
Duke, your tone in "T-Bone Shuffle" on Blue Mood is the best recreation of T-Bone's tone that I've ever heard. And so I was wondering if you might reveal your setup (guitar and amp) for recording that track and/or how you approach nailing T-Bone's tone (i.e., what defines it for you, in terms of tonal quality and equipment). On the original 40s recordings, it doesn't seem necessarily warm (which I assume is the P-90 he was using), while the tone on T-Bone Blues is much warmer (was he using humbuckers by that point or is it just that the it's recorded so much better that he sounds more clean with more of a warmth and bottom).