bottleneck repertoire
Let me write out a complete list of the bottleneck tunes I’m working on and/or should be working on. Print out this list and use it for reminding me of the extent of my repertoire. Learn to sing the tunes as well as playing the guitar parts
Open-G/A:
- “Traveling Riverside Blues,” Robert Johnson
- “Crossroad Blues,” Robert Johnson
- “Come On In My Kitchen,” Robert Johnson
- “Worried Life Blues,” Fred McDowell
- “Black Cat Bone,” Jessie Mae Hemphill
- “Train I Ride,” Fred McDowell
- “High Water Everywhere,” Charlie Patton
- “Police Station Blues,” Peetie Wheatstraw
- “Dough Roller Blues,” Ranie Burnette
- “That’s Alright,” Fred McDowell
- “Screaming and Hollering the Blues,” Charlie Patton
- “Poor Black Mattie,” R.L. Burnside
- “Ragged and Dirty,” William Brown
- “Special Rider Blues,” Skip James
- “Banty Rooster Blues,” Charlie Patton & Son House
- “Kokomo Blues,” Kokomo Arnold & Scrapper Blackwell
- “Mississippi County Farm Blues,” Son House
- “Rolling and Tumbling,” Hambone Willie Newbern
- “Drinking Water Out of a Hollow Log,” Fred McDowell
- “Write Me a Few of Your Lines,” Fred McDowell
- “Dry Spell Blues,” Son House
- “Country Blues,” Muddy Waters
- “I Be Troubled,” Muddy Waters
- “Little Red Rooster,” Howlin’ Wolf
- “My Black Mama,” Son House
- “Walking Blues,” Son House
- “Tom Rushen Blues,” Charlie Patton
- “Mississippi Bo Weavil,” Charlie Patton
- “Levee Camp Moan,” Son House
- “Future Blues,” Willie Brown
Open-D/E:
- “Rambling On My Mind,” Robert Johnson
- “When I Lay My Burden Down,” Fred McDowell
- “Louise,” Fred McDowell
- “You Got To Move,” Fred McDowell
- “Standing In My Doorway Crying,” Jessie Mae Hemphill
- “Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning,” Fred McDowell
- “61 Highway,” Fred McDowell
- “Break ‘Em On Down,” Fred McDowell
- “Mojo Hand,” Fred McDowell
- “I Heard Somebody Calling,” Fred McDowell
- “I’m Crazy About You Baby,” Fred McDowell
- “Preaching Blues (Up Jumped the Devil),” Robert Johnson
- “Dust My Broom,” Robert Johnson & Elmore James
- “Someday Baby,” Fred McDowell
- “Wake Up Mama,” Blind Willie McTell
- “John Henry,” Fred McDowell
- “Preaching the Blues,” Son House
- “Pony Blues,” Son House
- “God Moves On The Water,” Blind Willie Johnson
- “Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground,” Blind Willie Johnson
- “Nobody’s Fault But Mine,” Blind Willie Johnson
Standard tuning:
- “Hey Hey,” Big Bill Broonzy
- “Bad Luck Blues,” Blind Lemon Jefferson
- “Black Horse Blues,” Blind Lemon Jefferson
- “Drunken Spree,” Skip James
- “Everybody Ought to Change Sometime,” Sleepy John Estes
- “Running and Hiding,” Jimmy Reed
- “Mississippi River Blues,” Big Bill Broonzy
- “Worrying You Off My Mind,” Big Bill Broonzy
- “Green River Blues,” Charlie Patton
- “Meet Me In The City,” Junior Kimbrough
- “Jumper Hanging On The Line,” R.L. Burnside
- “Look Down The Road,” Skip James
- “All Night Long,” Skip James
- “Crow Jane,” Skip James
- “Pony Blues,” Charlie Patton
- “Kindhearted Woman,” Robert Johnson
- “.44 Blues,” Howlin’ Wolf
- “Catfish Blues,” Robert Petway
- “Worried Blues,” Skip James
- “Saturday Night Rub,” Big Bill Broonzy
- “Pig Meat Strut,” Big Bill Broonzy
- “Mopper’s Blues,” Big Bill Broonzy
- “Long Tall Mama,” Big Bill Broonzy
- “Brownskin Shuffle,” Big Bill Broonzy
- “M&O Blues,” Willie Brown
Open-Dm/Em (crossnote) tuning:
- “Count the Days Until I’m Gone,” Rosa Lee Hill
- “Devil Got My Woman,” Skip James
- “Special Rider Blues,” Skip James (Corey Harris’s version)
- “I’m So Glad,” Skip James
- “Illinois Blues,” Skip James
- “Yola My Blues Away,” Skip James
- “Cherry Ball Blues,” Skip James
- “Four O’Clock Blues,” Skip James
- “Hard Luck Child,” Skip James
- “Cypress Grove Blues,” Skip James
- “Hard Time Killing Floor,” Skip James