PERFORMANCE NOTES
Jan 26, 2021
3 minutes
“PREACHIN’ BLUES”
Larkin Poe
Rebecca and Megan Lovell turn in a refreshingly raw and soulful performance with this popular 2017 cover of an old Son House blues classic. The song is in the key of D, for which Rebecca’s drop-D-tuned electric guitar (low to high: D, A, D, G, B, E) provides the foundational low-string riffing, fulfilling the role of a bass line with added, swampy grit. Megan performs her featured melodic lead parts on a lap steel in Dobro-, or “high-bass”-style open G tuning (low to high: G, B, D, G, B, D), which puts her “home-key” position
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