Feels like rain (J.J. Cale)

Basically this one is E chord for the most of the time (plus I tend to pull of from 2nd string 3rd fret to 2nd string 2nd fret at the end of a bar, or something like that):
[E]It feels like rain fallin' on my pillow

Then a walk up G, A, B, D... back to E, for this bit:
It feels like [G]storm [A]cloud [B]over[D]my[E]he-ead

The intro walks up the Em pentatonic, from open low-E to high-D (2nd string 3rd fret) almost two octaves up) and back to low E:
E G A B D E G A B D
E

Brown dirt (J.J. Cale)

[E]Brown dirt, [A]stickin' to my [G]fingers

[E]Brown dirt, [A]clingin' to my [G]feet

[E]Brown dirt, [A]Mississippi bottom [G]land

[B]Pickin' that [A]cotton for the [G]man down the [E]street

Chasin' you

While we wait for the new album... the 1st single is Chasin you which I listened to one the day it came out and noted quickly that it is a:
12-bar blues in E (with a IV-I-IV-V bridge/B-section)

The song title list for the new album has been released, but need to wait until end of April to hear it!

Woke up this morning (J.J. Cale)

kicks off with: E... A G E

For the vocal parts, it is just G and E, G and E, G and E...
[G]I woke up early this [E]morning
etc.

Then for the rest it sounds like just E (bass line is something like E E A B   E E A B)

New Orleans (J.J. Cale)

I still think the Travel-log album never received the praise it fully deserves. Also it has the last songs with a real vintage JJ solo tone (I mean I assume he played his Harmony on record for the last time here...). Lovely noodlings on this one too, will come back to them.

Have you [E]ever been down to [B]New Orleans
[E]Lord, lord, them [A]crazy queens
[E]Crying the blues [B]is what they do down [E]there

[D]Money dripping from a willow tree
[E]He never wanna leave
[D]Lazy bones, I ain't got a dime [E]
Just [B]biding my time
[A]If I [B]find a [E]way to [A]choose
[E]New Orleans, where they're crying the blues

E blues scale solo kicks off at 1m10s like this:
e:--------------
b:----12-12--------------12---
g:-12-------14-12--14-12------
d:--------------

a:--------------
e:--------------


e:--------------
b:----10-11-10-----10-------------
g:-12-----------12----12----------
d:------------------------14-12---
a:------------------------------14
e:--------------

Strange Days (J.J. Cale)

Strange [B]days
That's come up[E]on us
Strange  [B]ways
This time of [E]ours
There is no [A]meaning
For this to [E]happen
Strange [B]days
It seems so [E]far
Used to [A]be
Everything was [E]falling
Right in [B]place
Where it all would [E]be
Something's [A]changed
I sometimes [E]wonder
Could I get [B]back
Where we used to [E]be

Since You Said Goodbye (J.J. Cale)

This is a simple 8-bar blues in E:
E E E E
A B E E

Yeah, a nice solo in there, in E minor pentatonic. Played with a wah wah pedal, I think? Anyway, a classic JJ tone of old.

Santa Cruz (J.J. Cale)

This goes approximately like this:
Em | G A | ... endlessly.


Except for the "Well we didn't play long it booed too soon" part:

[A]we didn't play long it [Em]booed too soon

etc.

ending with:

[A]I thought we had played his [Em]favorite song[B]

Change your mind (J.J. Cale)

Sounds like a simple three chord ditty in E:

[E]I detect a side-effect of a [A]complicated life
[E]The edge is on, [A]sharp as a knife
[E]Underground tremor, [B]stop it with a dime
[A]Hey girl, call me if you change your [E]mind

(Now added the key of the song as a search key to this post, will add to all others too. So If one wants to play in key of E, just click on the "key of E" label to see all post with songs in key of E. etc) 

"Traces"

As per request from Julian, here's a quick one:

"Traces" to my ears is like this:
[B]Traces of [G]loving a [D]life I re[B]member
etc.

Except the bridge section that kicks off with "Time has brought some changes" is:
[G]Time has [D]brought some [B]changes"
etc.

[G]Where is the [D]seed, [A]that we [B]need
[G]Keeps our [A]love a[E]live

...Could be that I am wrong in so many ways, so let me know if I am!

What Do You Expect (J.J. Cale)

This is another great groove.... 


What I hear is basically just two chords. For most of the song it's the Hendrix chord (which also features in JJ's Money talks) E7#9.

The only chord change is that there's an A7 at this point for two bars:
What do you ex[A7]pect
Caviar and candlelight[E7#9]

One Step Ahead Of The Blues (Roger Tillison)

The progression for this one is:
D E x 2; for the verse
D A E; for the "It's bad for your brain and that's true" or "one step ahead of the blues" kind of parts, intro and the short solo bits)


Great searing lead in this one. Maybe ought to check who actually played it. Sounds like E minor pentatonic around the 10-15th fret.

My gal

I was watching the "To tulsa and back" DVD and realized he played this little tune acoustically.

Looking visually at what he plays, it was basically:
open E chord all the way except
B, A as a quick turnaround.

Don't even have the original here to listen, nor my guitar in my hands to check, so I'll just accept it is like that and the same on record too. :D

City girls

This is one true classic, only just realized I hadn't covered it in my blog...


...must be because I was too lazy or scared to pick the wonderful guitar solo. Sounds like Reggie Young on a stratocaster, to me. Could be that I am wrong. It might be a telecaster. :P


This a simple country number in E. Basically the chords are A A E E B B E E*. Where the last bar of E is cut after the first beat.

[E, no chord]City girls they're all right[A]
They just want you for the [E]night

But when the morning comes at [B]dawn
City girls they all [E]gone

This is an approximation of the 1s intro kick off (that's also used in place of the [no chord] part):

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

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

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

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

---2-4p2p0-2-4-0-

-3---------------

It's Good To Be In Austin

I had to buy the Rewind album twice, to get this song. It's a good country number, though. :)

The basic part is:

E A E ...x 3

B E

The bridge is basically just 

C#m E ...x 3

F#m B7.

Or so I hear, what about you? :D

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:
---------------------
---------------------
---------------------

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

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

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

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...

Disadvantage

Yet another 12 bar blues here... in E. The only difference is that in bars 9 and 10 there's half a bar of B followed by half a bar of A.So, it's like this:
EEEE EEEE EEEE EEEE
AAAA AAAA EEEE EEEE
BBAA BBAA EEEE EEEE

In the intro there's some play around the 2nd fret G string and open G string. Then some other E minor pentatonic stuff...

Lawdy mama

The heat is on, and I am as lazy as ever... so I'll just state this very quickly:

This song is 12 bar blues in E, with a quick change IV in the second bar.

Has a nice groove riff, which I am not able to get down pat, so I'll just let it be for now. Maybe later...

Lonesome train

This to me is just a 12 bar blues in E simplified... as I don't hear a IV chord...

E/E/E/E
E/E/E/E
B/B/E/E

So all E, except:

Is it headed [B]up, is it headed [E]down

Oh well, could be that there's more happening, 

but the "Number 10" just doesn't inspire me to do more than that...

All mama's children

[E7#9]All mama's children got rythm
And all mama's children got [B7]soul
When they [E]get up in the morning
[A]Without no warning
They [E]all start to [B]rock 'n [E]roll
etc

Just give me some [A]more
Of that country [E]soul
One more [A]time
I'm crossing the [B7]line

Hey this isn't the same song,but still sounds like a bunch of fun:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_3zO3leTMY
(Carl Perkins tune of the same name)