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Mick Pearce (MCP) Tommy Johnson's Guitar Style (20) RE: Tommy Johnson's Guitar Style 28 Mar 13

There's a discussion site for some of Tommy Johnson's lyrics and there's information on tuning for some of the tracks there : Tommy Johnson Lyrics. They think Big Road Blues used dropped-D; you'll have to wade through the 20 pages to find it, but the relevant quote is: "Big Road Blues was the second of two songs that Tommy Johnson performed on his first day of recording. Johnson is playing in D using Dropped D tuning, with Charlie McCoy again on second guitar". I haven't had a chance to look at the tuning in the tracks yet, but might manage that tomorrow.

Mick

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