Playing In The Street (J.J. Cale)

Chord progression, solo... I don't know, I don't hear any.

I do hear the bass track, which appears to be all in G major:
the main part is a basic Root-Fifth bass line
a:--10----10----
e:-----10----10-


and for the instrumental parts like this:

d:-----9-12-------

a:--10-------------

e:-------------10---

and this:

d:-----9-12-------

a:--10------10-----

e:-------------10---

Louisiana Women (J.J. Cale)

Oh I looove the mood of this song.

It's a 12-bar blues in A:
AAAA
DDAA
EDAA

The bass line follows a country style V-I figure. So A-E for A and D-A for D and E-B for E. With some nice walk-ups in between.

If You're Ever In Oklahoma

This fun little country blues number goes like this for the main part:

A, C, D, A

To mimic the country V-I feel of the bass, you can play it like this for example (playing bass strings with thumb while muting them palm of the picking hand):

A...........C........D........A...........

----------------------------2-------------

--------2----------1--------3---------2---

--------2----------0------------------2---

---------------------0---0----------------

-0---0------3---3------0---0---0---0------

---0---0------3---3--------------0---0----

...and then D, A for this part:

And they don't [D]care about Dallas, [A]Texas
And they don't [D]care about Wichi[A]ta

Here's a great youtube cover of this song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L_HA9-1MJE

Mojo

Yeah it isn't his own song, so normally I'd shy away... plus it's a straight ahead 12 bar blues. So what's the point?  I dig it, and I want to cover all his songs in my blog... :D

so here's the main riff for this 12 bar blues in E:
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-2-------------------

---2--2-4-5--5-4-5-2-

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It's the same but one string up for the IV chord. For the last four bars there's just strumming for V and IV chords and then a basic E blues turnaround that starts with the open D7 chord picked two frets up, then moving that fret by fret down...

No time for solo now...

Everything Will Be Alright

The progression for this beautiful small tune is:
F Bb F Bb F
Ab G F# F

So basically for the verse it's going back and forth between F and Bb (The I and IV chords in key of F), and then the chorus is going down from Ab a fret at time, until back to F chord.

"Soulin"

OK, this one is kinda elusive for me. A stone groove, it is.

I think the record is slightly above regular tuning. So tune slightly up to play with the record. Or tune the record slightly down. :D

I play this with just two chords, basically: regular E chord ( 022100 ) and a "long" A7 ( x02223 )... and well, an A in between like this x0222x (it's sort of muted as it's just a move towards the A7 from the E).

So it's a bit like:
E E A
A7 A7 A7
A7 E

Where the A7s emphasize the high strings and the E after them is just the open top three strings.
And the EEA in the beginning is just on the bottom string, and the A is quickly muted.
The A chord I play barring the second fret with my index, and the A7 is the same but ring finger on 3rd fret of E string.

Here's a slow and imperfect example of what I mean there:
http://www.box.net/shared/gigdeou87e

"I'll kiss the world goodbye"

 

Above the tools of my trade. ;)

I am not 100% but hear this classic something like this: 

[B]I've been so [A]lone in these [B]prison walls
Good lord, [A]thinking I would [B]die
You've got the [A]time to [B]get me out
I'll kiss this [A]world good[B]bye

[E]The rain keep [F#]falling and [B]I feel [A]fallin
[B]Lord, I [A]think I'm gonna [B]die

solo (basically B mixolydian):

-------------------------------7-
------------------------7-9-10---
-8h9-11-9p8-9p8-----8h9----------
----------------9----------------
---------------------------------
---------------------------------
 
---------------------------
---------------------------
-8h9-11-9p8h9p8h9p8--------
---------------------------
---------------------------
---------------------------
 
--------------------------------
-------------------7~-----------
---------------8-9--------------
-9-11-9------9--------9p8-9-8---
-----------9------------------9-
---------7----------------------
 
--------------------------------------------
------------------------7-------------------
-8--------------9p8-9-8---9p8-9-11-9-8------
---9-7---9-7-9~------------------------9-7-9
-------9------------------------------------
------------------------------- 
 
------7------------------------ 
--------10-7---7~~------------- 
-9s11--------9----------------- 
------------------------------- 
------------------------------- 
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"Ridin' home"

Finally really getting to the great early stuff here!

[F]I'm sittin' on this train and I'm ridin' home, ridin' home
I'm sittin' on this train and I'm ridin' home, [C]ridin' home
[F]I've got my bag and I'm ready to go
[Bb]I wish this train didn't move so slow
[F]I'm sittin' on this train and I'm [C]ridin' home, [F]ridin' home

"right down here"

To my ears this is just a Bm-E jam:
[Bm]My woman, my woman, [E]you know she cryin'
[Bm]She keep... etc etc

In the intro before the drums, it starts off with Bb bass note pickup before strumming the Bm chord, then Bb bass note again and strumming the Bm chord... then the song kicks off...

...with the intro solo bit:

-------------------------------------
-12'-12'--10------7------7-----------
-------------11------9-9---9-9-------
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-------------------------------------

-------------------------------------
-12'-12'--10-----12-10-12'-...-------
-------------11----------------------
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Both of these end a bit fuzzy to my ears, so they might not be accurate or in full there... but I am outta time again, so I won't be able to delve deeped today, maybe later. Basically the Bm pentatonic, with emphasizing E major chord notes while that's playing in the progression.

"Goin' down" (Don Nix)

Oh, just realized, this is not a JJ tune, it's a blues standard. Have to look into the music of this mr. Nix, never heard any, I think.

Oh well, here's it anyways...

JJ plays it the key of A. Like mentioned in a set list post in this blog before.

The chords are:
A for the first "I'm going down" part...
then the walk down of A, G, D, C (close, that, boxcar, down ... or ... down, down, down, down) followed by some A...
D for the 2nd "I'm going down" part...followed by the walk down part again...
E chord for the "Got my big feet" part... followed by the walk down part again...

Here's some takes on the song:
Freddie King
(Looks like Nix, JJ and Freddie all were on Shelter label, btw)
Keith Richards
Jeff Beck 1983