Saturday, 4/28/12
by musicclipoftheday
James Blood Ulmer, “Are You Glad to Be in America?”
Live, 2008
Imagine this with bass and drums. Can’t? Me, neither. That’s one sign of a great solo performance: accompaniment is unimaginable.
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Reminds me of Robert Pete Williams, but hard to peg, indeed. Hard even to figure out at first what key he’s playing in. (Open G tuning, I think.) Ulmer’s guitar sounds like no one else’s.
Yeah, I can hear how you would be reminded of RPW (previously featured here, if anyone’s interested, on 7/31/10, 6/18/11, and 8/5/11).
According to a YouTube comment, JBU uses (at least here) this guitar tuning (low to high): AAAAAE.