Sam Bush's Crossroads Cover

[BluegrassPhilfromFrance]

By any chance, does anybody have a tab transcription of Robert Johnson "Crossroads" cover by Sam "The Wizard" Bush ? http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/cool.gif

[patsites]

Good Luck! I've been searching for this forever. We play a bastardized version in my band and I try and emulate as best I can.

I've watched him perform this on stage 4 or 5 times and still can figure it all out. I've seen him play this w/ the band, solo and in duo's styles and everytime it's different. He's yet to record this on any album that I'm aware of.

He drives the main riff out of a standard chop G chord and drops it a half step to F# unlike the original version of Robert Johnson or Cream that drops a whole step to the F. He does this for obvious reasons, the neck isn't long enough to drop to the F.

Other than that, it's pretty much standard 1/4/5 blues tune where verses start on the 4 with lots of rocking sevenths.

For his solo's, he uses a lot of doublestops and open strings and never ever plays it the same way twice.

My favorite version is on a bootleg call the bluegrass session w/ just him and Jerry Douglass, the float into Little Feat's Sailin Shoes in the middle of it.......12 minutes of sheer Sammy heaven.

[BluegrassPhilfromFrance]

Many thanks Patrick,

Another great version of the Sailin'shoes/Crossroads blues medley is the one on the Merle Fest 1992 video tape with Al Perkins and then Emmylou and the rest of the band joinin' in ! If by any chance, you've heard the Bluegrass Box workshop tape with Sam & Jorma Kaukonen, you'd fell off your chair ! A bientôt ! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/cool.gif

[french guy]

A very exciting tune for sure , I love it , especially the version on merlefest video .