Plugged-In Fest - Deep River Blues (cover) now with Doc Watson version

[Rolow]

Here's a You Tube of Doc Watson playing and singing Deep River Blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyQOCJ4SUSk

This is an acoustic song that I have put into an electric band format.  

It appears this song was writted by The Delmore Brothers and was first called Big River Blues.  But the great Doc Watson changed it to Deep River Blues, added the fingerpicking style, and made it a signiture song of his own.Hope you enjoy it!

Deep River Blues

[OsCKilO]

Awesome Man!!!!!!


Sooooooooooo Authentic!!!!!


How the hell did you do this!?!

Love it!

[64Guitars]

I'm not familiar with the original but I love this. That fingerpicking style sounds so cool. I wish I could do it but I'm hopeless without a regular flat pick.

Sooner or later, I'm sure we'll have a Plugged-in Fest. When we do, remind me to add this to the jukebox.

[lg]

This is awesome!
Never heard the original, but I don't care....
Love this one!

LG

[Gary F]

 Great pickin Rolow!!! Nice harmonizing vocals also!!!!
 Gary

[chapperz66]

Really nice picking Rolow.  I'm not familiar with the original either but I don't need to be now that I've heard this.

Great stuff.

Paul

[Rolow]

Thanks for the generous comments!!

How the hell did you do this!?!

For a long time this didn't seem to be coming together, then suddenly it did.
The far left and right in the stereo field are two different sounding electric guitars.  On one I played the basic fingerpicking arrangement with some variations, then on the other, I did the same, with the variations coming mostly at different times.  The hard part for me was coming up with some lead guitar that fit the song, and didn't suck too bad.  The vocals were fairly easy (tho pitchy because I don't sing well), and the idea with the bass and drums was to keep them simple and in the background.  (The bass jumps out a lot more on speakers than it did on headphones while mixing.  Gotta watch that.)

Thanks for listening .

[64Guitars]

Bumped for Plugged-In Fest.

[cuthbert]

Now this is the kind of country blues that I love! Can't believe I missed the original posting, but April was a crazy month for me.

Well done, Rolow - more please!

[SwanSong]

AWESOME is the word of the day . agree with all comments. they
have expresed any thought imay have and more super thumbs up
on this one great blues SOUND..tc. Neil