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Dark was the Night, Cold was the Ground
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I could do a version of this every day for the rest of my life. On Finn's lovely Estralita 12 string.
Acoustic slide and blues playing on the National Reso-phonic tricone guitar.
I'm really a rock guitarist, and I used to play professionally in various bands. These days, I'm into country blues, ragtime and slide playing in open tunings on my National Reso-phonic Tricone Style 1 guitar. I'm attracted to the idea of one person being able to play everything necessary for a full listening experience, the portability and ever-readiness of the one-man-band. I guess this is a very social attraction too, and hence I hope you'll enjoy the tunes I've uploaded here. Everything you hear is recorded in my home on my PC using RME hardware interface and a Rode Nt-1 condenser microphone. Voice and guitar at the same time, into the same microphone.
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Genre
Blues Country Blues
Charts
Peak #5
Peak in subgenre #2
Author
Blind Willie Johnson
Uploaded
May 30, 2004
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MP3
MP3 3.8 MB 128 kbps 4:06
Story behind the song
Yes, I know: Again. This time a little closer to the original. Had to do it, had Finn's Estralita 12-string on loan. It's really just more love for Blind Willie Johnson, and besides, some painters only painted the same one thing, over and over for a whole life. "Dark was the Night" has enough in it for my lifetime, that's for shure.
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