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Ron Sprague "Oily Strat-O'-Nine-Tales Fool" covering Townes Van Zandt's "If I Needed You" on 4-string cigar box guitar, tuned Bb-F-Bb-D.

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Comment by 407bug on February 26, 2012 at 4:40am

Hey nice one Mr Oily.... Fab playing and great voice...thanks for sharing.

Comment by Ron "Oily" Sprague on February 26, 2012 at 3:44am

Thx, Steve!

Comment by Slowpaw Steve T on February 26, 2012 at 3:25am

Nicely played and sung Oily! (-:

Comment by Ron "Oily" Sprague on February 26, 2012 at 3:04am

Thanks y'all! @c# merle: I love Dylan's work, but Dylan's younger singing voice is about half outside my normal vocal range, without falsetto. I'm a "straddler" - a bass-baritone, who can also sometimes sing the lower half of the tenor scale if suffiociently warmed up. I pretty much give up when I have to go above D or E an octave above middle C. Something to do with my nasal passages; my nose was broken twice as a kid and once as an adult. So I live in the lower frequency rumbly spaces. I could transpose some Dylan to a lower key, and work it there. Hmm.

 

Anyhoo, next up vidwise will be the blues original I intend to give to Dan Sleep for his 2012 CBN blues compilation album. Still learning to play and sing it at the same time, and get over this cold so I can scream a little. Maybe in a coupla three weeks...

Comment by Mark Lillo on February 25, 2012 at 5:29pm

Very well done Ron! Thank you for posting this.

Comment by Brickdust on February 25, 2012 at 5:09pm

Lovely rendition. :)

Comment by c# merle on February 25, 2012 at 4:27pm

very nice rendition. your voice has a cool melancholy vibe to it - in a good way!!

love to hear you try something like this:-

guitars a beauty too.

Comment by Roadkill a.k.a. John Maw on February 25, 2012 at 1:34pm

I didn't know that song but right away I like it a lot. Very nicely sung and excellent playing and thanks also for the education.

Comment by Ron "Oily" Sprague on February 25, 2012 at 1:31pm
Y'all are too kind, truly.
Comment by Uncle John on February 25, 2012 at 11:57am

Hard to say anything new.  Just great, Ron.  Glorious.

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