![]() ![]() I’ll never forget the day I decided to take up blues harmonica. I was 18 years old, doing a crappy internship in a run-down part of the most boring town in England, and I decided to go shopping for music in my lunch hour. Intro F C Dm C F C Dm Am Verse 1 F C I'm just a man but I know that I'm damned Dm C All the dead seem to know where I am F C Till it began on the night of my birth Dm Am Will be done in a turn of the earth F C Lie where I land let my bones turn to sand Dm C I was born on the lake and I don't want to leave it F C Every eye on the coast ever more Dm Am Will remember the sight of the ghost on the shore Instrumental F C Dm C F C Dm Am Verse 2 F C Under the waves and the earth of an age. I can’t remember where I found the CD, but I do remember it just jumped right out of the shelf at me: Blue Skies, by some soulful-looking fellow named Muddy Waters. I don’t recall the first listening per se, and yet I know exactly how it must have felt, because this bellowing, ball-tightening number still sends giant surges of electricity down the ole tendons. With Muddy on vocals, Willie Big Eyes Smith on drums, Bob Margolin on guitar and Johnny Winter on slide, the track’s signature riff has James Cotton on harp. I’d never heard of James Cotton, but that electric riff came shredding through my earphones like demonic buzz-saws being shot outta Satan’s crossbow.Īs I later learned, this was a compilation comprising tracks from the three smoking studio albums Muddy Waters cut with Blues Sky records: Hard Again (with James Cotton), I’m Ready (with Big Walter Horton and Jerry Portnoy) and King Bee (with Portnoy). It also featured two live tracks from Muddy “Mississippi” Waters – Live. lord huron ghost on the shore Chords and lyrics difficulty: intermediate. So basically, the first straight blues album I bought featured three of the best blues harpers you could expect to find in a studio in the mid-70s. ![]() I didn’t know it, but I’d just purchased a blues harmonica master class. Rarely does a single compilation cover so vast an array of skills and techniques in blues harmonica. ![]()
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