Posted on 08/04/2024 7:20:54 PM PDT by dynachrome
Some known, some obscure, but all fun.
It hurts me Too
Hound Dog Taylor and the house Rockers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qEyvwlWMpA
If I’d Shot The Bitch When I Met Her I’d Be Out By Now
Jimmy Velvit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBUeANhUA1U&list=RDds80HrgMsus&index=5
Champagne and Reefer
Vargas Blues Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0MVPVFvMck
Hot stuff!
Too Much Alcohol
J.B. Hutto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFlSK7Lg2qQ
Dust My Broom
Roy Rogers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDOx7eihd5w
Tell Mama
Savoy Brown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OnvRuDHWUs
Not slide, but a great title!
I Hate Every Bone In Your Body Except Mine
Jimmy Velvit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOmjwZjkrfU
Great slide work, but this guys voice!
Those guys are lip syncing!
Still, good slide.
“Death Letter” Son House (1965 version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCr3j_TwQwI
David Allen Coe had a good 70s album.
I studied with a delta blues guy for a bit who was a real deal slide player. I remember i asked him if you could play slide using standard tuning. He laughed and said yeah you could boy just like you can eat corn through a chain link fence. You can do it but it makes it way harder than it needs to be.
Anything by Ry Cooder!
“Ken Hensley on slide guitar”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoBX1Db0BX8
Slide starts at 6:57.
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And again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se4YjAV4CZA
Slide starts ~ 4:04.
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And then the dude he hired: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIGjQiW6hTE
Slide starts ~ 4:10
Hound Dog was an icon, but sometime you couldn’t bend his chords back into line with a 50 ton crane.
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