Let me do it to you

Well, this funky ditty is in B, don't hear any changes, again. The short solo thing around 45s onwards appears to be B blues scale. 


The first riff, up to like 56s,  is something like this. 

---------------------
---------------------
-11-10-9-8h9p8-------
---------------9-----
---------------------
---------------------
in all sorts of variations... then it's this kinda thing:

-----------------------------------
---7-9-10-10-7H9P7H9---------------
-----------------------------------
-9-------------------9-------------

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




That's all for now. Anything to add, or correct? 

Guitar Man (J.J. Cale)

There's like 30 songs left to "tab", and I have trouble in getting into any of them now. :/

This one appears to be similar to "Bringing in back", and I only here this for progression:

[Fm]...[Ab][Bb]

There might be more to it than that, but I just don't hear it. :/

Steve's Song (J.J. Cale)

I could never got the purpose of this "song". So I am not really all that worried if my chords below are not 110% correct. Please do tell me if they aren't!

main part:
C7 Gm
C7 Gm
C7 Gm
Bb F D

bridge:
Am

Ride Me High (J.J.Cale)

Well, this tiddy has eluded me... because chordwise there's nothing happening.

I think it's:
Dm ... for forever... then drops down two frets to C for the instrumental break part. At least live versions appear to be like that.

The bass line drives the songs. Sometimes live it's been just D A D A bassline, but other times with a A C walk-up back to D.

Looks like it was played two frets down here in 2004: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZZvgj1iLCE

 

Like You Used To (J.J. Cale)

[F#m]Cry me a [A]tune [E]in the [F#m]morning,
[F#m]sing me the [A]blues [E]every [F#m]night
[F#m]Tell me that you [A]really [E]love me [F#m]baby,
[C#]and everything is [F#m]alright

[B]Home, I've been away from home, [F#m]I'm a travelling man
[B]Welcome me back any time, [C#]you are the only one who can

A lovely tune to strum to! :)

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---

JJ Cale bootlegs online

Just in case somebody doesn't know, there are a bunch of JJ bootlegs as low quality WMAs at: http://tela.sugarmegs.org/alpha/j.html

I dig them, and I know JJ is fine with bootlegs. I just wish he released all the stuff that he has in his archives! The last tour was recorded in it's entirety, for example.

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

Crying Eyes (J.J. Cale)

Ok, not much to go with,...
but I'll throw it out there, maybe somebody has more and can comment... :)

F# all the way through except:

I get so lonely, [B]lonely, [A]lonely
It ain't [F#]easy

intro takes of like this: 
E:------5---5-5s7---
B:-s7-7---7---------
...which basically spells out a F# minor pentatonic scale 

(here tabbed in what some call the Box #2). 

Bluebird (J.J. Cale)

Just the chords, as I hear them:

[Bm]Bluebird, [D]bluebird [E]where you [Bm]been
[Bm]Man it's been a [D]while since I've [E]seen you [Bm]friend
[Bm]Looking out my [F#]window [Bm]all I ever [E]see
[Bm]My re[D]flection, [E]bluebird and [Bm]me

Stories of Tulsa music in the 50s on Rock of Ages

Here's a nice clip about JJ Cale and other Tulsa musicians in Tulsa:
http://www.tulsaworld.com/specialprojects/scene/rockofages/article.aspx?subjectid=269&articleid=031230_Mu_d1_thera

Bill Raffensperger played great but I guess his name was just too much to some...

I'm still here, plus a couple of youtube clips

Yeah, it's been a while, but just letting you know that I'm still here... :) Been busy and lazy.

This is a fun Cocaine cover with a set of Swedish lyrics: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDiCJIJqwHU
Some rarish (not ultra-rare though) songs popping up also, like a couple posted by this guy: http://www.youtube.com/user/mylomaster

Also, as a bonus, found this small and extinct blog about Mark Knopfler guitar style: http://mkguitarstyle.blogspot.com/

Devil's Nurse (J.J. Cale)

The main part of verse sounds like just Ebm all the way through, then the "chorus" is like:

A devil's [Ab5]woman
With the devil's [Ebm]curse
Satan's [Ab5]lady
She was the devil's [Ebm]nurse

Roll On (J.J. Cale)

Verse:
AADD
AEAA

Chorus ("roll on, just keep rolling on"):
DDAA
DDEE

I wonder how come then it's marked as key of F# in the set list of Seattle 2009?

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

Ain't Love Funny (J.J. Cale)

Intro: D (except a drop to G at the very end)

[D]She brings me flowers from the waterwell
etc....
Aint' love [A]funny that [D]way

This [Bm]woman's touch, [F#]it is too much
Tingles right to the [Bm]bone
Her [Bm]hand's so slight with a [F#]wink in her eyes
Keeps me comin' back [Bm]home

Crying (J.J. Cale)

Not many would kick off an album with this sad and simple "reggae" ditty...?

Anyway, not much for me to say, but I'll say it anyway.

To me this just stays on the one... which is Gm, upstrummed on the high strings (like xxx333, for example).

The bas(s)ic bass riff is:
G.. D.. F G x
...where the x denotes a muted note.

This Town (J.J. Cale)

The basic chord progression is
4 times |Fm      | Bb Fm|
where, for the first Fm chord, pick through the chord, so these notes before changing to Bb chord:
F, C, Eb, C.

Then I think it's this the "chorus":
| Fm     | Ab      | Fm     | Ab
| Fm     | Bb Fm|
| Fm     | Bb Fm|

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]

Keys to JJ songs tabbed so far

So, here's the list of keys to the tabbed songs on this blog.


I am not listing minors separately. So I am technically wrong on many of them. So key of Am I consider to be just key of A, not key of C of key of Am etc.


No songs in C# then, eh? Maybe Cloudy day is? Don't know, haven't tabbed it, but the tab on the net kicks of with C#m. 

• key of E (23)
• key of G (18)
• key of D (13)
• key of C (11)
• key of A (10)
• key of B (8)
• key of F (7)
• Key of F# (7)
• key of Bb (5)
• Key of Ab (4)
• key of Eb (2)

Key of E is the top choice, then... well, blues in E is the basic vehicle for blues guitarists... did Lightning Hopkins every do anything but? Jimmie Lee Vaughan does play in other keys too, but it's only becayse he owns a capo. :D

...and for something rather different, here's also a nice "Drifter's wife" cover I found the other day: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38iY0dVchTM

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) 

Closer To You (J.J. Cale)

Hi, ...it's been a while!

This little ditty appears to go like this:
Verse: D C D
Chorus: G F G D

[D]Wish I was a stocking clanging to your [C]thigh

Everytime you'd move around I'd view you walking [D]by
etc.
[G]Closer, [F]closer, [G]closer to [D]you

"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!

Low Rider (J.J. Cale)

[See Matteo's comment for corrections! :) ]

Key of F#(m) again...

Intro start off:
---5---------------
-7---7-5-----------
---------6-4-4-2-4~
-------------------
-------------------
-------------------

[F#5]She is my [B5]low rider
[F#5]She is my [B5]low rider
[F#5]Some say she's [A5]bad, but she's [Ab5]better than [F#5]no rider

(I am not 100% on the last line of this progression though... so any help/ideas?)

Stone River (J.J. Cale)

As per request from Ray, here's the Stone River song. He's released two versions.  You can hear them back to back here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFOzPY_ZF0c I am basing my post here on the version you hear on the vid first, the version that sounds basically just acoustic guitar and organ.

Anyway, sounds like the key of F# minor.

The intro licks are using the F#m pentatonic (like on 9th fret on e string and then playing around the 5th and 7th frets on B and e strings).

Intro is F#m chord, except for a drop to A at around 19.5s and then to B and then back to F#m. .

For the verse it's just the F#m chord, except for a quick stab to B once in a while:
[F#m]Water ain't runnin' no more[B][F#m]

This is the chorus progression:
[F#m]Man he done [B]cut if off
And [F#m]moved it all [B]around

The outro is a bit like this (still the same F# minor pentatonic as before):
--------------------------
-s7---5-------------------
----6---6-4-2--2----------
-----------------4--------
-------------------2-2H4--
-------------------------2

Days Go By (J.J. Cale)

This simple smoky ditty is just
Abm(7) Ebm(7)
back and forth...

The solo picks off in Ab minor blues scale.

(post #100, song tab #86, still 54 to go!)

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]

You Got Me On So Bad (J.J.Cale)

Intro: E9 Eb9 D9
[D9]Oh Baby, you got me on so bad

[C#9][A7]I think that you're the wickedest woman that I ever had
[C#9][D9]Sometimes you make me [C#9][D9]feel so complete
[A7]You take away my [G]troubles, [F)put my mind at ease

The quick drops to C#9 vary a bit, so you have to hear for them yourself, I've just notated some of them above.

JJ solo starts off like:

E--------------------------------------

B-6-5~-4-3------------3-5h6-5h6-5~-----

G----------5-2------5------------------

D--------------3-2~--------------------

Chains of love (J.J. Cale)

Nice little number, this is what I got for it, don't know if it's full or 100% correct, but it's my best shot with the time I had... :D

[Gm]Chains of [Gm]love, won't [F]let me be

[C]They keep haunting, [Gm]haunting me

etc

[Dm]That old key, I've yet to [Gm]find
[Dm]That unlocks, those [Gm]ties that [Eb]bi[D]nd

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.

Doctor Told Me (J.J. Cale)

This one is simple and not all that memorable. It's a 12-bar blues with the first 4 bars doubled... so a 16-bar blues, then...?

F#5  x  8
B5 B5 F#5 F#5
C#5 B5 F#5 F#5

Feeling In Love (J.J. Cale)

In the Key of F (mixolydian) and the solo bits appear to be in F minor pentatonic.

[F]Feeling in love, [Eb]I want to testify

[Bb]Little time it will [F]take me

[Eb]The way you [F]make my day
[Eb]The things you [F]do and say

Wish I Had Me A Dollar (J.J. Cale)

This  simple number only to be found on the multiple disc collections, AFAIK. Like The 3CD Collected or the 2CD Anthology.

This one's a 12-bar blues in D:
DDDD
GGDD
AGDD

Again, most eveident through the V-I bass line.

The solo takes off going back and forth between C and A notes (on the B-string 13th and 10th fret) and then landing on the 12th fret B. So basically I guess you could say the solo is in D mixolydian.

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.

"Takin' Care Of Business" (J.J. Cale)

The #8 album has some nice suprises. I never liked the album, really, sounds thinner (due to first time digital recording?) and all that.


Anyway, this one's a nice little boogie number that introduces the band members, so wonder why he doesn't play this live much?


Key: F#.The intro is mostly the F# minor pentatonic.


Chords are:

[B]Tim Drummond's on bass, Jim Keltner's on the [F#]drums

[B]They'll put it right on you for a shot of [F#]rhum

[B]I'll tell you right now it's a [F#]funky [C#]beat
[A]Downtown, [Ab(m)]takin' care of [F#]business on the street

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

Super blue

Super blue... another Grrrrrrrreat mood setter here!

Here's cover with a cello! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oeph019rpoI

The chords are:
G , C, G, C... for the main part
and then Eb, D, G for the "got yourself another man" part

The intro lick is approximately like this:
-----------------------10---------------------
-10^12-10----10^-------10^12-10----10^--------
----------12-----9--------------12-----9------
----------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------

-13^15-12-10----------------------------------

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

-------------14-12----12---14^16~-14-15-16--17

-------------------14-------------------------

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

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

Youtube JJ covers, part 2

Yeah, haven't been active with the blog. Just too busy with family to do any playing, really.

I did visit Paris over the weekend, and saw this ad on TV:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo5xM24YkRU

I thoroughly dig it, though not getting a Citroen anytime soon. 

Anyway, I was checking Youtube for some new JJ covers. There's plenty of them, favorites a long bunch. Here's some of the top ones I found this time around.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-0RxG8Wn6c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUEbsbxHY44

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgH8N-dT1pI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5QlITNQFlM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jd2JhHUwgk (Dewey Paul is planning to release a Cale cover album!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chuf10X4fKQ (creat JJ style guitar on this)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aea2kDem-VM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrO9Tyu3zjs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb3l70XkAG8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ifL6VWdQUE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y2CAXkIH5A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcbDE7sqrTM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSMvynCBSUE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV_Z1TncHzs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqwZIKrfkoo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sxpld0XhnFE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98CzdveZMws

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqgqN-U0hok

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8OTyZCekFs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpN92ag0i1c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnLpY7hCeJc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghug_o9V_l8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twalJezPG-4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GafNKAHW1M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPuoOHhRITc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJfyTifgSow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnHMAFwfkBE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DUSFz8GQd4

...and gotta love a John Cale getting pissed off as being mistaken for another: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2t4K2sUI34

"End of the line"

This is an approximation, again, and none of the bluesy licks tabbed now...


[A]Trains don't run forever[C#m7]
[D]Fire goes out sometime [A][F#m][A]
[A]Gotta tell you, baby
[B7]We've come to the [E]end of the [A]line .... [A][E]


10s:
------------------------------
-----0-1-0--------------------
---2-------2------------------
-------------4-2-4------------
-0----------------------------
------------------------------

15.7s:

-8-8-5---5---------------------
-------8---5---5--------------
-----------------5------------
-------------------7~---------
------------------------------
-------------5----------------

-------------------------------
------5~-----5-----------------
-7-8-----7-8---5H6----9-7-5----
-------------------7--------7--
-------------------------------
-------------------------------

24.5s
-8-10-8-5--s8-7-5-3-0--3-0----
------------------------------
------------------------------
------------------------------
------------------------------
------------------------------
etc.

Friday

One of these elusive simple tiddies again...

This is and stays in Dm. The groove is a bit difficult get into (or out of! :D ), maybe. But it's all fretting hand muting and loose strumming hand stuff.

The bass line is: D D D A C. It can be played all on the 5th string, for example: 5th fret D note, open string for A, and 3rd fret for C.

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

Passion

This one's to honor the greatest JJ Cale cover band I know of: TALK TO THE CAT!  Please go their site and check their music (Oh, man the the stone JJ groove they have for Right down here!):  http://talktothecat.nl/Intro.php ...And book them for gig!

If Talk to the cat had not recorded this small gem, I would never have realized how good a song it is. And I still think of their version first, not the original. Although Number 10 is the first JJ album I bought the day it hit the shelves, I never liked it, it's also the most disappointing record of his, due to the sound. I wish he re-recorded all of it!

Anyway, I copped this off the Talk to the cat version:

The chords are:
Verse:
Gm D
Gm C

Chorus ("Now she's gone... the passion ... still lies in me")
Gm Bb
C D
Gm D

For their CD, the singer and main guitarist of this band played a Gibson Standard USA 1990 and through a Rivera Jake Studio and the other guitarist played a (rosewood fingerboard) Telecaster. Not that anybody cares, but I asked about it once, as I was interested about the tone they got. You can see their gear listing on the site, too.

...and while all you guys are at it, do check the Dutch JJ fan site too: http://www.jjcale.nl/index.html

...and go listen sneak preview's of new Eric Clapton album, with two JJ songs and JJ himself on it: 'Eric Clapton' Sounds good, almost as good as Talk to the cat! :)

The Old Man And Me

Haven't got much on this, but just to mark a celebration here:
If I have my stats right, I started of with a list of 69 * 2 = 138 JJ songs to tab... and now have tabbed (to some extent) exactly half of them!

Anyway: Old man and me.

This just stays on Bb chord with alternating bass (Bb and F alternating). You can take a Bb barre chord at first or sixth fret and alternate between the 6th and fifth strings (with strums in between)

The solo bit at around 1min into the song is Bb major pentatonic, I think, and starts approximately like this:
---1~----------
-3-------------
------5-3-0-3--
---------------
---------------
---------------

Former Me

This is a great track! He just keeps putting out great stuff, I say!


The chords:


The main part is: 
Bm F# ...6 times, then the ending:
Bm A Bm


the "Those days..." bridge is:
G A Bm.... 3 times, then the ending:
A G F#


And don't forget the great youtube cover by Harry de Visser.

Roll on mama

Number 10 is the record I never listen to... just don't like the sound of it at all. So I'll skip the screechy solos...


The chords are:
Fm Bb Ab again again and again...
except for the "chorus" bit that goes:

I gotta [Ab]roll on, Mama

[G]Things been movin' too [F]slow

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

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

Hard Times

The chords for this minor masterpiece are:

F Ab Bb for ever in a loop. One bar of F, half a bar of Ab and half a bar of Bb. Repeat.

So it's like:

[F]Hard times[Ab][Bb]

The intro is something like (without the more quiet scratching in between):

---1-4-1--1--4-4-6--1---4-4-4-4-6--1---

-1--------1--4-4-6--1---4-4-4-4-6--1---

----------2--5-5-7--2---5-5-5-5-7--2---

----------3--6-6-8--3---6-6-6-6-8--3---

-----

-----

So that's just the 4 note lick from Fm pentatonic, plus strumming the same chords as the whole song is revolving around. 

"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?

If You Leave Her

This, to me, is just Gm all the way through, except this at the end parts of progression:

I can't [C] see her [Bb]walking with [Gm]you

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

Trouble In The City

This might be slightly fuzzy, 

as I am trying to cop this out very quietly in the dark of night on my acoustic...

[Bm]Heard the one about your woman
Lord, she's been messing 'round
[E]She's been stepping out on the street
Lord, she's been hanging out[Bm]
[E]Ain't nobody had her this week, 

[Bm]boy it [A]won't take [E]long
[Bm]Lord, lord, there's trouble in the city
Lord, lord, there's trouble in the city
Lord, lord, there's trouble in the city
And I [D]hope it won't [A]mess with [Bm]me

The guitar fills appear to be from B minor pentatonic scale.

Rose In The Garden

Lovely sweet song this is. Love the piano and the acoustic guitar solo.

The chords spell a simple country progression:

[D]I'll find my way back [G]to the rose in the [D]garden
[D]I'll find my way [A]back to her sweet [D]arms

The solo picks off something like:

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

-----7h8p7---------
---7-------7-4-----
-7-------------7---
-----------------5-
-------------------

which is based around the D chord (A barre shaped one in my tab), or D major pentatonic, if you wish. 

It's hard to tell

This one goes like this for the main "It's hard to tell" part:
Am G Am
Am G Am

etc...

Then the other part that is played in between and for  "when you face the face" etc, is:

C D
C Bb.


Or so I hear it, any comments welcome. :)

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...

Love Has Been Gone

This one's in the key of Bb.

[Bb]Love has been gone, [Eb]gone so long there's nothing [Bb]new

I say our love has been gone, [Eb]gone so long there's nothing [Bb]new
How does it [Gm]feel
Not too [Bb]good
It ain't [Gm]real but it's [Bb]understood

intro begins like this:

E:-----------------------------------

B:-6-8-9~--8-9-8-9s11--9-8-9~--9-8-6-

G:-----------------------------------

x:-----------------------------------

x:-----------------------------------

x:-----------------------------------


E:-------------6----------------------

B:-------------6--9-8-6~--------------
G:-8p6--------------------------------
D:-----8--8---------------------------

A:----------8-------------------------

x:------------------------------------

So that looks like Bb minor pentatonic... plus the sixth...

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.

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...

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.

River runs deep

Just read that Eric Clapton's new album has this track, so I thought I'll have a look on the original...

It's just Am and D all the way through. Or so I hear it!

The licks he plays are A minor pentatonic... some beautiful pre-bends there on the 8th fret. Too lazy to write the licks down now, but I play the in the 1st and second minor pentatonic boxes, so at five through to 10th fret.

B:------------
G:---5-7-5--
D:-7-------7-
A:-----------

I wonder if that was any help to anybody now. :D

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...

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..

Does Your Mama Like To Reggae

Not one of my faves, so I'll skim it with a quick note:

Basically stays on G, the reggae scratch guitar is G7.

The bass riff is:
G G G G Bb C
G G G G Bb Bb C

Here's a live cover version of it on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLLI0RGpipU
(there's also a studio version )

(Searching for those, saw this video somebody has recently made for Lakeland's Bad habits )

Everlovin' woman

This is a quick one, hope it's correct:

[B]I've got a woman, I love her, lordy lord
She cooks my breakfast on Sunday, just like my ma
[E]I hang my hat in her house, she don't charge a dime
[B]Love me, trust me, never cuss me, you know she's mine
[F#]I'm talking 'bout, I'm talking 'bout, I'm talking in rhyme
[B]I'm talking 'bout that everlovin' woman of mine

Oh, yeah, I hope I haven't "tabbed" it before... I forget!

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)

"No time"

--------
in key of E

Going back and forth between E and A:
[E]No time[A] making my move [E] no time

Then the "clock it turns" bit is
[E]Summer comes and [G]summer gone
[A]When I sing the [E]very same song

intro:
-0-0------------------------0--
-0---3-0--------------------0--
---------2-0~--------0~--------
---------------0-2-5----0-2----
-------------------------------
-------------------------------


-0-----------------------------
-0---3-0-----------------------
---------2-0~------------------
---------------0-2-2--2P0-0H2--
-------------------------------
-------------------------------


-0---------------------0-3^-0-----------------
-0---3-0------0-----0-3--------0--------------
----------------0-1--------------2-2-0--------
---------------------------------------2-2-0-1
----------------------------------------------
----------*E*---------------------------------

where is *E* means playing the E chord (for a while).

The the rhythm extra notes:
it sounds like strumming the chords with  fretting some notes of the E minor pentatonic on top, like


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

So you like playing chords E, E7, E7#9.

------------
-2-3--2-3-0-

so you like play chords A Asus4

etc.

Here's live vid from turn of 90s:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hemrseR4qtA