st. james infirmary

[ira]

hasn't been a blues topic for a while, so thought i'd create.

just started playing st. james infirmary with my partner. what fun, sliding and bending all over.

what old blues tunes are you doing these days?

come on bluemando heads.

[mando bandage]

"Death Don't Have No Mercy" by Rev. Gary Davis?? as performed by Hot Tuna.

R

[duuuude]

ira - Did you see the tab file on co-mando? Gives a few useful licks. Been playin' that for the last year and still love playin' it. Did ya know the original, Gambler's Blues, was a traditional tune from back in the late 1800s? Talk about yer old blues, too cool.
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Also, give Bluegrass Stomp a try, lotsa places you can go with it being yer basic blues progression, nice one fer jammin'.

[bluesmandolinman]

Ira ..still stuck on blues !?
In the moment my favorits are :
Gypsy Woman Blues ( Charlie McCoy = Blues Mandolin Great !)
Johnny´s Shuffle ( Johnny Young )
So much fun playing it...

[duuuude]

Ya may wanna give Milk Cow Blues a try as well, just yer basic 12-bar with lotsa room for noodlin'.
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[ira]

great suggetions. anybody do any leadbelly?

[mandroid]

'Goodnite Irene' in GMaj;is popular.
'Bourgeois Blues' still amazingly current.
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[Donald]

Been workin on Milk Cow Blues lately. Nice tune. My wife insists on calling it Mad Cow Blues.

Is there a version of Milk Cow Blues available on the internet for free? Standard notation preferred.

Thanks-

[duuuude]

There's a version at co-mando.com I believe, the tab files also have standard up above, think it's in the bluegrass download of TEF files they have.

"Bluegrass Stomp" can easily be carried away into a great blues jam kinda thing. Another good one, though not too old, is "Every Day I Have The Blues".
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[mandodude]

Lately I've been diggin' the version of B.B. King's The Thrill is Gone that Dave & Jerry do on the Grateful Dawg DVD... fun to pick along with!

[ira]

mandodude- we've been doing the gandg version of the thrill is gone for a while- great fun.; turn down the dawg on the solo and go for it yourself. will be diffeerent and prob. a little slower, but what a blast!

[duuuude]

What key are they doin "Thrill" in? The only music I could find on the web has it in Bm but the changes don't seem quite right to my ear, Bm, G7, F#7.

They usin' Am, Dm, F, E?
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[ira]

we do Am, Dm, F, Em

[duuuude]

Thanks ira, don't know where some of this stuff I find on the web comes from, LOL.
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[smilnJackB]

I do Saint James also. A somewhat similar song is One Kind Favor- chords Am, E and Dm. Very cool sound. I also like to do Albera, Midnight Special, John Lee Hooker's Uniform Blues and others.
Jack