Slack Keys are alternate tunings such as Open D and Open G, which are most common for bottleneck blues guitar play. blues players originated among Hawaiian Islands Slack Key musicians and eventually migrated to the North American continent. If my memory serves me well, the bottleneck slide playing that influenced early 20th century U.S. This post is not a music history lesson, but I’ve read a lot about the blues. Muddy Waters with slide on his little finger Note the characteristic rhythm riff driving the tune played by Keith Richards with the Mick Taylor’s bottleneck slide adding important textures over the top! I saw the same show in Charlotte, NC that year. Below you can see one of the Stones’ hard rockers from Exile on Mainstreet played live in 1972 in Texas. A sound so expressive to my sensibilities. To my ear, there was something distinctly different about their guitar sounds too… at the time, I was unsure what it was exactly, but eventually realized it was the liberal use of bottleneck slide guitar. Yes, it was the Rolling Stones, still largely blues influenced, but now exhibiting a richer, deeper, more expansive and more expressive music. This was not your everyday British Invasion band, but something new and powerfully different. When I was an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina in the early 1970’s, the Rolling Stones were in the midst of putting together an unparalleled run of four extraordinary record albums, including Beggar’s Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers and Exile on Mainstreet.
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