Go downtown (J.J. Cale)

[Cm]

Go downtown, gonna find myself a woman
Bring her home with me, put her in my house
Go downtown, gonna find myself a woman
[Bb]One who wants to play cat and [Cm]mouse
Go downtown, gonna walk around 'til I find her
I need some loving in my place
Go downtown, gonna find myself a woman
[Bb]Just a small taste of silk and [Cm]lace
[Eb][Bb][F][Cm]
[Eb][Bb][F][F]...

"Perfect woman" (J.J. Cale)

I still don't hear any chord changes in this, just the Cm (or C5)....

The main riff varies somewhat along the way, but here's approximation of the way it's played at around 51s:

---------------------------
---------------------------
-----------------------5-5-
-----------------5~--5-----
---1-3~---3--6-3-----------
-3-------------------------

--------------------
--------------------
-3------------------
---5-3-5-3----------
-----------6-3---3~-
--------------------

Basically that looks to me like a Cm7 arpeggio.

Starbound

This is in C, and I don't hear any changes, just C all the way through.  (SEE COMMENTS FOR SUGGESTION THAT IT'S MORE LIKELY FMAJ7 CMAJ7)


This is the intro (C major pentatonic):
-8p5---5~--8p5-8-10--10-12-12---8p5---5~-8-5--5-----
-----8-----------------------------8------------8-8--

-----------------------------------------------------

-8p5---5~---12p10p8-10'-12-12----10-12-12-

-----8------------------------------------

------------------------------------------

"Who knew"

So another quick one here...

The main part chords are a basic blues progression (add sevenths according to your taste) in C:
C C C C
F F C C
G G C C

The bridge is basically just:
Eb Eb C C for most of it, like 4 times, I think...
...and then fret by fret down towards to C from Eb... Eb, D, C#... for the end part of it.

There might some else in there, but those two progressions are the core of things happening...

Losers

Oh well, one of the my least favorite JJ tunes ever ever.

The main part is a 8 bar blues in C:

CCFF

CGCC

And the bridge thingy ("Came in this morning" etc):

FCGC

FCGC

ever. Did I already say that?

Sho-Biz Blues

Well the chords for the verse are these in a loop for forever:
C Bb F C

and for the bridge the two back and forth:
Bb C

So that's that.

Wish I Had Not Said That

Lovely sweet country tiddy! Oh well, I just love the Shades album...

...picking the C major chord for intro riff:
---------------
------------(1)-
---0-----------
-----2-0-------
-3-------3-----
---------------

[C]You don't come here too often
You make my day when you come around
You know I love you something awful
You're a diamond I have found ([(C][G])
[F]Wish I had not said that, [C]baby
[F]If I could only close you [C]out of my [G]mind

Of course imitating the riff while strumming works well as well...
I just seem to be hammering on to the second fret on the D string once every bar... and alternating between C and G in the bass of the C chord (to "emulate bass guitar").

For going from the verse to chorus, there's this move from C to F:
-----1-
-----1-
-----2-
-----3- 
-3---3-
---3-1-

So C, G, F... I guess you could play all of those as chords too, so I put that in round brackets above..

"Blues for Mama"

This is one true fave of the Back to Tulsa album. Great solos too!


I think it's in the key of C minor. Or, actually maybe it's C Dorian? Who cares.  :D


The main part is:

The Blues for Mama bit is: [Cm][Cm][Gm][Gm] x2



The rest her soul bit is:

[Eb][Eb][F][F]

[Gm][Gm][Eb][F]



The modulated bridge part at the latter part of the song, starts at around 1m35s, is:

[Bb][Bb][Ab][Ab]

[Bb][Bb][Ab][Gm]




acoustic solo bit 1m54 - 2m07s:

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------------------------------------------------------
-12'-10-8-10 12'-12'-10-8-10~-10H12-8-(10)------------
------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------

------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------
-10-12'-10-8-10H12s...-----------------------8~-(10)--
-----------------------2S13H15-8~-8-10-8--10----------
------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------


The solo after 3min kicks in the same C minor pentatonic kicks off
...approximately like this:

-----------------------------------------------------
-11^~-11-13----13-11---------------------------------
-----------12-----------10-12-10-10-8----------------
--------------------------------------10-8-10-8------
--------------------------------------------------10-
-----------------------------------------------------


"Livin' here too"

Another quickie off album #8. To me this always sounds sort of like a second rate try to make another Cocaine, because of the similar riff. But hey, it's JJ, so I love it. :D

The riff is played like this:
A A A C
D D D C

I play them like open E chord but up fifth fret for A and 8th fret for the C and 10th fret for D.

The bridge part is just D and C each strummed only once at a time:
[D]My mother was poor, [C]my father too
[D]I'll take anything I can [C]get from you

"These blues"

This one is a bit tougher for me to hear... but I think it goes like this:

These blues (chords are 8th fret Cm, sixth fret Bb7, fourth fret Ab7, third fret G7)

[Cm]A hundred miles is not too far
Unless you have to [G]walk
Life, it seems, is like a dream
Until you have to [Cm]talk

...that loops forever, until...
...the chorus of "If it don't work for you, girl"... etc:
Cm Cm Bb Bb Cm...
Cm Cm Bb Bb Ab...
Cm Cm Bb Bb Ab Ab G G
Ab Ab Bb Bb Cm

intro solo up to 12s.:

----------------------------------------------------------
-------------8---------------------------------8-7-10-8-7-
----8-10--11---11-10-8--7-8-7~-------7-8-10-11------------
-10-----------------------------8-10----------------------
----------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------

...too busy to do the rest now, but I love the solos and solo tone on this one (sounds like a track almost two decades older!), I wish I will have the time to really look into those sometime later! Looks like Cm blues scale (= minor pentatonic plus b5 note... on fret 11 of G string), plus the 2nd and the sixth.... hmm...

about the list of songs with no tab available elsewhere

Looks like there are more JJ song tabs on the web than I thought.

With a quick search on the web, I found chords/tabs (some of the chords in the brackets) for:
Cherry (G, C, G, D)
Cloudy Day (C#m, Fm, ... Fm, A, G#, B)
If I had me a rocket (G#, C#, D#)
Out of style ("Katy kool lady") (Am, E, Am, E, Am, G, F, E, E7, Am)
The Problem (Bb, Ab, Eb, Bb, Ab, Bb... Eb, F, Bb, Ab, Eb)
Take our some insurance (D, A, D, G, D... G, D, C, D)
That kind of thing (Gm Bb F Gm ... Bb C Gm D7#9)
You keep me hangin on (C, G, Am, G... F, G, C)
Low down (12 bar blues in G)
Teardrops in my tequila (C,Em,Am7,G, C, F, C... C,F,G,Am...)
Homeless (C, G, Am, F, G... also an Em in there)
Guess I lose (Gm, C, Gm, D7, Gm ... also A#, Gm, A#, D7)

So I won't be tabbing these out either, you can google them if you need them. :)

I will continue with rest of my list (of ~126 released songs), then. And will continue to be as accurate as I can (in one sitting), but will never post complete tabs or sheet to any given song (just chords and intro or similar). So if one fine day somebody decides to compile a book of complete sheet music or tabs of JJ songs, there is still the use/need/market for one. :D

Monday morning comes too early, work my back to the bone

Tired after the weekend, so here's the chords to Blue Sunday "a day late":
C5/// C5/// F5/// F5///
C5/// G5/// C5/// C5///
(the solos are on a steel guitar or something, so I ain't tabbing them)

So it is a variation of 8-bar blues, like Who's talking. Add solos in C minor pentatonic per your taste. :D I have the tendency of playing the V-chord (here the G chord) as the last bar of any blues progression, but (to my ear) JJ often just stays on the I-chord (here C chord) in the end, not overly emphasizing the end. I think he just plays the I-chord at the end of Who's talking too, but I just like to play the V-chord at the end.

I dig the Rewind album of unreleased tracks, though some covers, like Golden Ring, they could've left out. Also, it should have Katy Kool lady on it instead of Out of Style. Out of style isn't unreleased, what's up with that! Or is it a play on the "5" mistake, having another mistake here? But anyway, still some gems on the unreleased stuff too!

Yes, I will take care of "Friday" one fine day. May not be this Friday though, as I am traveling again. Friday is real groovy, just stays on the same D chord for what I hear... but that still needs more work... any tips?

Another blues tune: Runaround.

in the JJ yahoo group like 3 years ago somebody requested a tab for Runaround. I love the lyrics of this one!

So here's my try in a single sitting:


Key of C, 12 bar blues:
C///C///C///C///
F///F///C///C///
G///F///C///G///

intro and ending both follow the C minor pentatonic box at 8th fret.

intro up to vocals:
-----------------------------9-8'---------------------
----------------------------------8-11-8~-------------
------------------------------------------------------
--10/12-10~10/12-10/12-12~--------------------------
------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------

--------------------11---8----------------------------
-8'-8~--------------8---------------------------------
-------8h9-10-8h9---8----8h9--------------------------
--------------------8--------10/12--------------------
------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------

ending (the last couple of notes are maybe not played, but sound right to me):
-11-8-------------------------------------8-----------
------11-8-------------------------------(8)----------
------------10--8H10P8p-------------8----(8)----------
------------------------10-------10---10--------------
-----------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------

simple bass line suggestion (I am no bass player!):
C.........C...........C........C.......
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------------------------------------------------------
-3-1---1--33-1---1----3-1---1--33-1---1---------------
-----3---------3----------3---------3-----------------

F.........F..........C.........C........
------------------------------------------------------
-3-1---1--33-1---1------------------------------------
-----3---------3------3-1---1--33-1---1---------------
--------------------------3---------3-----------------

G.........F..........C............G.....
------------------------------------------------------
-5-3---3--33-1---1----------------55-3-5~-------------
-----5---------3------3-1---1-------------------------
--------------------------3---------------------------



Standard dislaimer and all that! All corrections welcome!!!!!! :)