"White House Blues" Performance
Added 2018-03-16 12:01:00 +0000 UTCgDGBD, relative (tuned down to F)
"White House Blues/All You Fascists/Railroad Bill" (originally recorded by Charlie Poole in 1926). While, my version may sound similar to Poole's at first glance (we are both finger picking) I actually learned to play this tune and it's cousin "Lonesome Road Blues/Going Down This Road Feeling Bad" from George Gibson of Knott County, KY circa 1999-2000. I was pretty young when I learned these pieces from Gibson and it would be at least a decade before I ever heard Poole's 1926 recording or Guthrie's from the 1940s.
A lot of the left-hand finger work is interchangeable between several different songs and tunes--things can get confusing.
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I'm gonna tell you fascists you might be surprised
The people in this country we're getting organized
In Washington, In Washington
And I'm gonna tell you workers before you cash in your checks
They say "America First!" but they mean "America Next!"
In Washington, In Washington
CHORUS
All you fascists gotta die, all you fascists gotta die
Some day you gotta lay down and die
I'm going into battle gonna take up a union gun
I ain't gonna lay it down until every battle's won
In Washington, In Washington
CHORUS
Comments
Yes. I intend to interpret each of these songs to yall using a 'performance' video (like this one), a 'discussion' video (where I'll verbally explain how it's played) and at least 2 slow close-up clips.
Clifton Hicks
2018-03-20 23:47:06 +0000 UTCWill there be a lesson/slow down of this one?
Eric C Hartsfield
2018-03-20 23:42:29 +0000 UTCForgot to add: standard G tuning, relative (tuned down to F).
Clifton Hicks
2018-03-20 23:28:18 +0000 UTCtuning?
L Z
2018-03-20 23:24:15 +0000 UTCOh, that's a good one--a popular jam closer around here!
Jake Tolbert
2018-03-19 21:57:03 +0000 UTCSic Semper!
Clifton Hicks
2018-03-18 19:06:01 +0000 UTCnice closure to the tune :)
Lorenzo A
2018-03-18 19:02:45 +0000 UTCLove this tune! 'This machine kills fascists,' the machine is banjo.
Florian Zhang
2018-03-17 07:49:37 +0000 UTCVery soon! I just realized that I still need to do close-ups and a quick talk on "Cumberland Gap" that I posted a few days ago. We will wrap up that piece today and tomorrow hopefully and then get into "White House Blues" etc.
Clifton Hicks
2018-03-16 23:30:36 +0000 UTCWoody also used that as the basis for "Mister Charlie Lindbergh." Great tune. So when are we going to work on playing up the neck?
Micheál Mac Labhrás
2018-03-16 23:25:13 +0000 UTC✊
Idun Øye
2018-03-16 12:22:38 +0000 UTC
