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 Ron "Oily" Sprague on February 27, 2012 at 7:53am
Thx, Mark! Never seen that show, but great theme song...Hey! You wanna collab on a song called "Damn you, Fogerty!?" Hehehe.

I may just have to get me another dawg, a bloodhound, just so I can name him Fogerty.

Damn You, Fogerty! Hahahahahahahahaha...
Comment by Mark Bliss on February 27, 2012 at 6:36am

Nice Ron, well done. And you have great taste in music too!

And its tuned BFD! Now theres some irony......

And another thing, I was grooving to this theme to a TV show I was kind of half watching, got it stuck in my head and had to check and see what it was......

Damn you Fogerty!

Comment by Ron "Oily" Sprague on February 26, 2012 at 7:49am
Thx, bug!

BTW, enjoyed your first attempt at Barbi Q; totally different from what I heard in my head ( damn you, Fogarty!), but kewl nonetheless.
Comment by BUGGY (C) on February 25, 2012 at 10:40pm

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

Comment by Ron "Oily" Sprague on February 25, 2012 at 9:44pm

Thx, Steve!

Comment by Slowpaw Steve T on February 25, 2012 at 9:25pm

Nicely played and sung Oily! (-:

Comment by Ron "Oily" Sprague on February 25, 2012 at 9:04pm

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 11:29am

Very well done Ron! Thank you for posting this.

Comment by c# merle on February 25, 2012 at 10:27am

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 7:34am

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.

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