dhanners623 Posted March 25, 2023 Share Posted March 25, 2023 Here’s “Blood Will Tell,” another one I might do for the West Terre Haute concept album/EP. I might slow it down a bit and this version is performed without an instrumental because I had no instrumentalist. But it gives you an idea of the song. Lifted the title from Gary Cartwright’s great book about the T. Cullen Davis murder trials in Texas in the 1970s. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murph Posted March 25, 2023 Share Posted March 25, 2023 I like it. One more word. Resonator. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duluthdan Posted March 25, 2023 Share Posted March 25, 2023 Thumbs up here too. Sure would like to see your fretting hand. Easier to steal the chords don't ya know. Am Em thing sounds like. Good story. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhanners623 Posted March 25, 2023 Author Share Posted March 25, 2023 34 minutes ago, Murph said: I like it. One more word. Resonator. Thanks! Yeah, I’ve been looking for an affordable reso. It would sound good on this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhanners623 Posted March 25, 2023 Author Share Posted March 25, 2023 (edited) 20 minutes ago, duluthdan said: Thumbs up here too. Sure would like to see your fretting hand. Easier to steal the chords don't ya know. Am Em thing sounds like. Good story. Thanks. I’ll set the camera back farther next time. Usually, people complain my fretting hand just confuses them…. As for chords, I’m capoed at the 4th fret and using Am, G and Em fingerings in the verses (or C#m, B and Abm without a capo) then F, Am, G and Em (A, C#m, B, Abm) in the bridge. Edited March 25, 2023 by dhanners623 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneS Posted March 25, 2023 Share Posted March 25, 2023 I like it, too. I have given up trying to figure out your upside-down picking so I’m not about to watch your chord hand. Freaks me out, man! (In an admiring way, though.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhanners623 Posted March 25, 2023 Author Share Posted March 25, 2023 49 minutes ago, AnneS said: I like it, too. I have given up trying to figure out your upside-down picking so I’m not about to watch your chord hand. Freaks me out, man! (In an admiring way, though.) Thanks. If it is any consolation, when I watch people who play the same way I do, I get confused because I am so accustomed to watching righties play. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorrisrownSal Posted March 26, 2023 Share Posted March 26, 2023 You always post quality crap. Always. And original. This is your best. blood will tell is helluva hook. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissouriPicker Posted March 27, 2023 Share Posted March 27, 2023 Yes on the resonator. Yes on the performance. Yes on the writing. Yes on the story. I sincerely enjoy your songs. This is another “slice of life.” Good stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remmuts Posted March 27, 2023 Share Posted March 27, 2023 I like that a lot! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RBSinTo Posted March 27, 2023 Share Posted March 27, 2023 On 3/25/2023 at 11:29 AM, AnneS said: I like it, too. I have given up trying to figure out your upside-down picking so I’m not about to watch your chord hand. Freaks me out, man! (In an admiring way, though.) Watch it in a mirror. RBSinTo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneS Posted March 27, 2023 Share Posted March 27, 2023 14 minutes ago, RBSinTo said: Watch it in a mirror. RBSinTo While standing on my head, perhaps… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhanners623 Posted March 27, 2023 Author Share Posted March 27, 2023 All ya gotta do is turn the guitar upside down…. I taught myself to play on my late brother’s blond Stella. (Wish I still had that guitar….) It didn’t have a pickguard on it, so I didn’t know I was holding it upside down. Being left-handed, I held it the way that felt natural. Checked the “Glen Campbell Guitar Method” book out of the library and looked at the chord diagrams and put my fingers where the dots were. When I started playing with others, I realized I was holding the guitar upside down. Albert King played the same way, as did Bill Staines. Texas folkie Shake Russell plays this way. I’ve known four or five others personally who play that way and oddly, we all sound different. I attribute it to the fact we all taught ourselves how to play, so we all interpreted the instrument differently. And I never did figure out how to play like Glen Campbell…. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RBSinTo Posted March 27, 2023 Share Posted March 27, 2023 1 hour ago, dhanners623 said: All ya gotta do is turn the guitar upside down…. I taught myself to play on my late brother’s blond Stella. (Wish I still had that guitar….) It didn’t have a pickguard on it, so I didn’t know I was holding it upside down. Being left-handed, I held it the way that felt natural. Checked the “Glen Campbell Guitar Method” book out of the library and looked at the chord diagrams and put my fingers where the dots were. When I started playing with others, I realized I was holding the guitar upside down. Albert King played the same way, as did Bill Staines. Texas folkie Shake Russell plays this way. I’ve known four or five others personally who play that way and oddly, we all sound different. I attribute it to the fact we all taught ourselves how to play, so we all interpreted the instrument differently. And I never did figure out how to play like Glen Campbell…. Elizabeth Cotten, who wrote "Freight Train Blues", also played left-handed, turning the guitar upside down without switching the order of the strings. RBSinTo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave F Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 (edited) Edited March 28, 2023 by Dave F Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhanners623 Posted March 28, 2023 Author Share Posted March 28, 2023 3 hours ago, Dave F said: I forget about Cotten….. Jimi changed his strings around. I read somewhere that he started without changing his strings around, but then changed so his bass strings were on top. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lars68 Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 Great song with a super hook. Let us know if recordings of your songs become available. I’d be interested. Also, I play my guitar with that little round hole facing out. Is that right??? Lars 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelly campbell Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 Great song Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red 333 Posted March 31, 2023 Share Posted March 31, 2023 As usual, a well told tale with lyrics of great economy and specificity, with a haunting melody and accompaniment to match. Well done. Red 333 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhanners623 Posted March 31, 2023 Author Share Posted March 31, 2023 5 hours ago, Red 333 said: As usual, a well told tale with lyrics of great economy and specificity, with a haunting melody and accompaniment to match. Well done. Red 333 Thanks, Red! I appreciate it…. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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