Guitar Blues
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Johnny St. Cyr
i) Guitar tablature
ii) Slow-downer / pitch-shifter
iii) More info
The recording of "Guitar Blues" by Johnny St. Cyr was made on April 2, 1949, at his home in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, United States. This session was recorded by Alan Lomax, capturing it on reel-to-reel tape, specifically marking the recording as Tape number T996, Track Number 3, with an Archive ID of T996R03. This recording is part of a broader session conducted in April 1949, focusing on interviews with Cyr, a prominent guitarist and banjo player.
About the author
The author, blah148, is a pre-war blues enthusiast, from Alberta, Canada. A first album was released by blah, in 2025, in large part by incorporating learnings from the transcriptions/tabs on this site. To the like-minded blues enthusiast who may be viewing this, blah would be quite indebted if a patient ear may be lent to one of the released recordings :) Also, please feel welcome to subscribe to the Youtube channel for long-form pre-war blues video tutorials, livestreams where guitar tabs (like the one above) are written out in real-time, and more.
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