The Jazz Guitar Chord Dictionary
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    What a classic, one of my favorites.

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    InTENSE! Gorgeous performance all around. Ensemble magic!

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    This is one of the songs that got me interested in the guitar. It still gives me chills to hear it.

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    Sadly, there was no credit to the original composer of the tune when this version was released. Fenton Robinson's first recording appeared as a 1967 single. He rerecorded the track in 1974 on an Alligator album by the same name and it's a real fave of mine:

    Last edited by PMB; 06-15-2022 at 04:38 AM.

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    I thought at 12:14, the track would get boring, but I wanted to hear more when the fade-out came.
    Great example of changing tempos and grooves and switching from horns to piano fills to guitar solos to keep the tune more interesting than a typical minor blues.
    Tracy Nelson was on backup vocals, a seriously under-rated rock/blues singer. She
    sang some tunes with Mother Earth by Boz and other writers, and would use hip arr. just like this one.
    Boz always uses great funk/jazz players in his bands.

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    One thing I had not known was that Boz had been Steve Miller's rhythm guitarist. It's a small world after all.

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    Thanks for the article ! One of my all time favorites !
    I hear a lot of energy on this recording ( Boz ) . It sounds live, every bit of it

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    Quote Originally Posted by MarkRhodes
    One thing I had not known was that Boz had been Steve Miller's rhythm guitarist. It's a small world after all.
    Both Steve Miller and Boz made albums where they sang standards. Steve Miller's album "Born 2 B Blue" had Phil Woods and Ben Sidran on it, and he sang tunes like When Sunny Gets Blue, and the title song very in a convincing jazz/blues style.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sgcim
    Both Steve Miller and Boz made albums where they sang standards. Steve Miller's album "Born 2 B Blue" had Phil Woods and Ben Sidran on it, and he sang tunes like When Sunny Gets Blue, and the title song very in a convincing jazz/blues style.
    Had not known that. Thanks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MarkRhodes
    Had not known that. Thanks.
    Yeah, no one seems to know about that album. I mentioned it on a forum where they were mentioning their fave SM albums, and no one had even heard of that album. SM doesn't really play jazz guitar on his solos; more like blues licks.
    He donated a lot of money to the D'Angelico exhibit at the Museum of Art in NYC.

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    There was a YouTube recording of the great T Bone Walker recorded in his parents basement when Steve was a kid but it's gone now.