We're re-issuing one of Chris's most popular lessons with re-mastered video and updated loop points. From Chris:
We've got a great song this month, "The Nashville Blues," written by the Delmore Brothers. I learned it from Norman Blake who has a great version on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17dAGRcWt6A
This song has a slightly different character than anything else we've worked on so far. It's definitely a blues, but somehow it sounds cheerful at the same time. Notice the unusual phrase lengths of the verses. It's actually a classic 12 bar blues form but, to me anyway, it feels novel in this bluegrass/string band context.
This one is particularly fun to play and sing so have at it!
Chris
Topics and/or subjects covered in this lesson:
Bluegrass
Print Chords & Tab
Loop 0:00 Run-Through
Loop 3:02 Introduction to Nashville Blues
Loop 6:05 Phrase Structure of Nashville Blues
I've got the blues, those Nashville blues
I've got the blues, those Nashville blues
I ain't got no hat, I ain't got no shoes
The people here they treat me kind
The people here they treat me kind
Lord, they give me beer and they give me wine
(chorus)
I'm going back to Arkansaw
Going back to Arkansaw
There I'll stay right there with my pa and ma
(chorus)
Oh Lord, I wish that train would come,
Lord I wish that train would come,
It would take me back where I come from
(chorus)
Loop 11:41 Closing Thoughts and Outro
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Chris, isn't the structure of this song similar to that of a standard 12-bar blues?