Hi Roy, 

Awesome that you're working on that for your reciatal! Re: the origin of Old Grimes, there are a lot of fiddle tunes that share a lot of material. I don't know the tune Nancy Dalton but I wouldn't doubt that they share some DNA. There's actually a fiddle tune called Duck River that basically also has the same A part. 

The other thing that happens sometimes is that you will have 2 fiddle tunes with the same name but where the tune itself is totally different. Case in point, two versions of Blackberry Blossom:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y96JkIhjknI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e0WQoBII84

I will certainly revisit  theBoogie over a 12-bar progression soon - thanks!

Boogie

Hi Dennis  How about lessons to boogoe on the 4 and 5 to give us a great repertoire...

This tune is "If You're Lonely" by the great James Booker, played on my 1897 upright Steinway. It's not from one of Davell's lessons, but I learned it using the methods from his lessons. Can we get some new Davell lessons at Sonic Junction, PLEASE?!?!?!

Rick, I have been listening and trying to lean a couple of chromatic pieces of yours from 20 years ago, Walking in the shadow of the blues and When your woman is gone. Listening to the backing music on When Your Woman  is Gone and trying to key out the chords it seems like it is d-flat minor with most of the main guitar riffs just a dance between the I and IV (d-flat and g-flat). So I thought perhaps you were playing this as first position with slide in on a C chromatic. But I have seen some videos of you playing this song and it seems like you are mostly playing it with slide out and seems like might be third position style, for example as if playing it in d minor. I suppose third position style on B chromatic would yield d-flat minor, but do not know whether such a beast exists.  My musical ear is not great so I can have difficulty distinguishing between 1/2 steps in keys.  So was hoping you might enlighten me about how you are playing chromatic on When Your Woman Is Gone.  Great song as is Walking in the Shadow of the Blues.

Brian Cade

Hi Jerry, thank you for your classes and detail expanations.

would it be posible to make a video  for "Got My Mojo Working"

Thank you a lot

Arsen

Chris , Roy Cotton here, I am practicing Old Grimes again, I would like to learn it for a recital in 2019. I played the A part for my guitar instructor today in Austin (Eddie Colllins), he said he kind of recongnized the basic A melody, and pulled put a Steve Kaufmann tab of the song Nancy Dalton, which did sound similar (not that lots of blue grass songs don't sound similar). Is there any relationship to Nancy Dalton, I did find a post from Devin online where he quoted you on its origin. Hope your doing well, come on back to Austin again for another show, Roy

just bumping this up in case it was missed!

10-4!

Greener Grass would be fun!

I'm trying to broaden my blues knowledge and get more into west coast / jump blues.  Any recommendations besides T-Bone... I'm already pretty familiar with his stuff.  Are there any video lessons from Duke that really capture the West Coast vibe?

Many thanks,

Hi,

SJ used to have a great set of lessons by Duke on the jazz standard "All of Me." It seems to have vanished.  Will it be made available again at some point?

Great song!! One of my favorites.

There was no new lesson of Duke this week. Does anyone know why?

help me please,Im your memeber about 3 years...and mr.(jerry,rick and dennis)or enybody can you tell me;which key is this great song and which bar progression  8,12 or 16, I can't count it...

Hi Chris, Any chance you can teach us some of TR's tricks on "John Hardy" from the Cold on the Shoulder album? I would love to see that on the list. Thanks for all you do for us. 

Ridge Road Gravel :) 

Hi, Chris.

I've been digging into rhythm playing at a deeper level and was wondering if that's something you would consider exploring in more detail on some tunes. I'm a huge fan of your work with Julian and have really been enjoying the experience of learning some of your more complex rhythm sections on tunes like 'Stone Cross'. They're incredibly fun to play, but I find it difficult to break away from a particular way of playing the rhythm, or the chords themselves.

In your recordings and live performances, and even when you play backing tracks here on Sonic Junction, I notice that you seem to improvise quite a bit within a rhythm section, but I feel like that's not something that is usually discussed. We tend to think of improvisation as a tool only applied to lead playing. I think it would be incredibly helpful to learn a little bit about how your mind works when it comes to improvisation within a rhythm section.

Thanks for all you do here and looking forward to more lessons. One of these days I'll have to get a simple recording setup and start uploading some videos.

Best,
John

a couple of Dan Zanes tunes (Bring me Little Water Sylvie guitar version, and Four Strong Winds) don't seem to be on his site anymore.

any way to get those back up there?

Just wondering:  What happened to Davell’s lessons?

Slim

How about something from Hawktail - maybe 'Unless' or 'In The Kitchen'. I love how Jordon Tice tackles those slower tunes that seem more naturally suited to the fiddle and upright bass. I'd be particularly interested in looking at trying to capture some of the nuance those bowed  instruments can bring to simple melodies. Thanks Chris! 

Hi Jersey Bill.  I just noticed the same thing. I was able to find "the stumble" by searching google for "sonic junction the stumble"

The page still exists online, they just hid it from the menu (probably to update the tabs, etc.)

That version is one of my favorite flatpicking recordings of all time! It's insane.