On Tuesday, August 4, 1998 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, Wayne Kelly wrote:
> Rick Ruskin wrote
> >Doc was most difinitely in standard tuning.
> >
> >Rick Ruskin
> >On Sat, 25 Jul 1998 13:59:05 -0400, "Steve & Caren Comeau"
> > wrote:
> >
> >>I'm figuring out Doc Watson's "Deep River Blues" by ear and I've worked
> out
> >>an arrangement where I capo on the 4th fret and start with a first
> position
> >>C5 chord. However, I hear Doc play bass runs that go below the G# on the
> >>capoed low E string.
> >>
> A friend of mine taught me this song in the key of E with no capo. The
> following seems (to my ear) to be right.
> The initial chord is a first position B7 but shifted all the way up to the
> 7th fret, which makes it an E7. Play this chord with the open 6th (E)
> string as the primary bass string. The second chord is the same chord form
> as the first one (i.e., a B7 form) but shifted down one fret to the 6th
> string (making it an Eb7) and play the 5th string as the primary bass
> string.
> From there he goes back to the first E7 chord then drops down to first
> position A7, A, E and B7 chords.
> So, it goes like this:
> (E7) Let it rain (Eb7) let it pour (E7) let it rain a (A7) whole lot (A)
> more 'cause
> (E) I've got them deep river (B7) blues.
For all the years I knew and played with Doc, this is the first I ever heard of DRB in open E We always played standard tuning...I'm surprised to see this..