Can anyone lead me to a TAB or .TEF file of The Mule Skinner Blues for mandolin? I've been looking without success
Thanks for your help,
Randy
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Can anyone lead me to a TAB or .TEF file of The Mule Skinner Blues for mandolin? I've been looking without success
Thanks for your help,
Randy
is there a particular version you are after - I am somewhat fond of the Tony Rice version from "Cold on the Shoulder" - never tried to play it from notation or tab though.
I would like Monroe's original version.Quote:
Originally Posted by tmsweeney
Hardly "Monroe's original version." Bill Monroe neither wrote nor was the first to record Muleskinner Blues. Good luck with your query though.Quote:
Originally Posted by rlinam59
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mule_Skinner_Blues
Thanks Fretbear, and what a Great Great record that is!
I a thinking that is Sam on mandolin on that cut.
I am hearing 1 4 5 in G
so G C D
i think riffing over the chord changes in pentatonic blues and hopefully working off the singer for "ornamentation" should work.
My favorites are Jimmy Rodgers, and Jerry Reed with Chet Atkins
Sorry, don’t have mandolin sheet for Bill Monroe’s version.
Not sure what your skill level is but I recommend listening until you can hum it and try picking it out. It’s the best way to really make something yours.
If that doesn’t appeal to you then take a lesson with someone and thy’ll teach it to you. For Monroe style Christopher Henry, Casey Campbell, Mike Compton are but a few that can help you.
Lotsa good versions, not necessarily bluegrass, but I like the Fendermen version best! :cool:
I like this one.
https://youtu.be/DkTEYy85Gbw
It's mighty fine; I really like this version by Hag as wellQuote:
Originally Posted by tmsweeney
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qYWbxyhp6U
Back before Jimmy Rogers and George Vaughan wrote "Blue Yodel #8" (aka "Muleskinner Blues"), there was this song by the blues singer Tom Dickson, in which the Black muleskinner complains about his treatment by the boss:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L0_...mDickson-Topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L0_pCJmOn4&ab_channel=TomDickson-Topic
It's, "Good morning, Captain", it says, "Good morning, Shine"
It's, "Good morning, Captain", said, "Good morning, Shine"
"'Tain't nothin' the matter, Captain, but I just ain't gwine."
I don't mind workin', Captain, from sun to sun
I don't mind workin', Captain, from sun to sun
But I wants my money, Captain, when payday comes
Worked me all this summer and you started on this fall
Worked me all this summer, started all this fall
Now I've got to take Christmas in my overhalls
If you good men want to keep her out of town at night
If you good men want to keep her out of town at night
Just feed her little pork chops, soothes her appetite
Now, there 'tain't no tellin' what a Mississippi gal'll do
Well, there 'tain't no tellin', a Mississippi gal'll do
She will get your money, then pull game at you
It's, "Go on, pretty mama, gonna need a friend again."
It's, "Go on, pretty mama, need a friend again
You gon' sit and sob when you wants me to be your friend."
SOLO
Hey, tell me, woman, where did you stay last night?
Hey, it's tell me, woman, where did you stay last night
Well, your shoes unfastened and your skirt don't fit you right
Historically interesting, today would offend some people. Seems to borrow some lyrics from Sitting On Top Of The World or vice versa, not sure...both from the same time period...Quote:
Originally Posted by Ranald
This explores some of what you may be looking for:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEqIZkt7fwo
Or 'In the Pines'Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeff Mando
"Shine" is definitely offensive, and I'm sure it was offensive way back when. However, when Tom Dickson sings it, he's illustrating from a Black man's viewpoint how the white boss, "captain," talks to the Black labourer. Almost every white person, I've heard do "Muleskinner" sings "shine," though I suspect that not every singer knew the meaning (for years, I thought it the phrase was "good morning, son"). Interestingly, Bill Monroe doesn't use shine in "New Muleskinner Blues" (Post #10). According to the lyrics printed on Google, he was saying "Good morning foreman, good morning, boss," though it sounds to me like "good morning, boy" which isn't much better than the original. Still, I may be hearing wrong. Being of British/European extraction, I'd drop "Shine" if I were to sing either Muleskinner or Labor Blues.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeff Mando
Most twelve-bar blue songs contain "floating verses," which move around from song to song, so it's not surprising that similar verses appear in "Sittin' on Top of The World" and "In The Pines." This practice is also true of many traditional, non-blues, dance songs. If no story is being told, with many songs you can throw in whatever verse fits or make up a verse on the spot (see different versions of "Old Joe Clark," "Jubilee," "Turkey in the Straw," or "Angelina Baker"). Perhaps the opening lines of Muleskinner Blues were around before either Jimmy Rogers or Tom Dickson sang them, and both borrowed them from other singers. I have no complaint (other than the racist language) about how Jimmie Rogers and many others interpreted the song. I really enjoyed Monroe's New Muleskinner Blues (above). Thanks to everyone for posting different versions.
Apologies to the OP, sometimes threads develop subtopics.
Someone, inevitably, is going to post this; might as well be me.
For me second only to Rodgers' original and definitive of Baker's perfection:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=bill+monro...%3DtiRu03RgSWw
I'll see your Monroe/Baker and raise you a Dolly Parton
I'll see that & raise you a duo:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=dolly+part...%3DTWh07XHVRdI
:)
Dang there goes my new pair of shoes