Devil Got My Woman by Skip James | Solo Acoustic Blues

[@chriss1492]

This piece has been one of the most challenging of your lessons, but couldn’t have come at a better time. Schools are shut down in my neck of the woods (Texas, USA) and this piece has given me something wonderfully constructive to work on instead of feeling anxiety-ridden and blue. I guess playing the blues is like an anti-venom for the blues. I appreciate you Adrian!

[@cskueny]

Hi Chris--I'm holding off on this lesson myself, working on Adrian's Stack-o-Lee and "Robert Johnson style" lessons to work my way up, since this looks pretty challenging as you said. Where you at in Texas? I lived in Austin for 11 years for grad school and after, and met my wife there. She grew up in El Paso, and her parents (who are gone now) retired back to rural-ish east Texas.

[@leticiam8804]

Gracias 😊😊

[@Ja.So.Bergman]

Great lesson! i appreciate you Adrian, love skip too!

[@cskueny]

So I've been home all week with a respiratory bug (a routine one most likely) and this morning starts "shelter in place" across the San Francisco Bay area where I live. Schools are closed and our employers have either closed or gone fully telecommuting. Many of you are in the same boat. Everything is disrupted and life is uncertain, but yesterday I remembered that with all else screwed up, I still have my two guitars, more time than usual to practice and play, and a treasure trove of lessons to work from. Some people wondered if the internet could go down here due to the huge number of people suddenly telecommuting, etc., but even then I've got a notebook full of Adrian's tabs printed out. Anyway, I'm feeling grateful this morning for a musical instrument that I realize I now actually sort of know how to play, and grateful to Adrian for all that you do. I've got Luther Perkins, I've got Joy Division, I've got Mississippi John Hurt, and yesterday I heard "Goo Goo Muck" playing, so I'll get back to Adrian's lesson for the lead guitar on that one. Music is priceless, so thank you Adrian for infusing our lives with so much of it, and thank you all out there for playing!

[@davidakins4166]

Hope you get over it where you can enjoy playing this song.from tennessee

[@johanneshoffmann9003]

I discovered your site today. Cool guy Good guitar player Chapeau Keep it up !

[@stevengarside]

Wonderful lesson. You are a great teacher - with impeccable, eclectic taste!

[@starcloud4959]

Wow this actually shows the tuning - open Dm.

[@hobonickel840]

been a sub of yours for a long time ...some of the most underrated craftsmanship on yt ...amazing and ty

[@cmaddox1020]

Another winner, Adrian. I like the variety of lessons you share here in youtube. Even though I've been playing for many years now, I still learn something new with every vid. Along with all that, your Patreon channel has a gold mine of useful stuff that augments what you share here/ Keep at it!

[@martynspooner5822]

Friend you never cease to amaze me always in a good way. Thanks yet again loved this lesson.

[@jille2459]

Thank you for you teaching. I agreee this is the most haunting blues piece !

[@OIP_1]

‘there are no other songs like that’ great lesson! will finally get down to learning it

[@leticiam8804]

❤

[@ST-xg3gy]

Oh please Skip Spence "Little Hands"! What a tune.

[@ichabodbimble9793]

Skip James is such an underrated bluesman and you picked a great song! I might have to give this a bash this weekend.

[@lespaultexasburst2847]

Underrated, really ? He's one of the top figures of any decent blues book. Many contemporary artists have praised him over and over (Nick Cave, Beck to only name a few). He's more famous than Tommy Johnson, who could use a small notoriety "push".

[@crunchking9931]

Most delta bluesmen are it’s actually a lot harder to play skip James than srv but because delta blues isn’t as loud or uses fancy pedals, it’s often slept on

[@yorrick1971]

This lessons are really great, thanks. I hope you do more acoustic ones - I reckon they would be really popular.

[@TomClarkSouthLondon]

Woke up this morning! And thought I need a blus acoustic lesson 👍🆙

[@davidkless9131]

Thanks Adrian for helping keep this style alive. Solid playing as always and instruction. Open D minor is so good for creativity/exploration. “4 o’clock Blues in this running by Skip is my favorite. Perfect campfire song.

[@funnychickfred2286]

Wow ! That’s great playing

[@billnance2318]

Wow! what a performance...I can't wait to learn this great song. Thanks Adrian.

[@harigeorgeson5885]

A splendid choice. Skip was one of the best. As you said, haunting is the operative word here.

[@Ronno4691]

Pretty sure this song is on the OST for the Terry (Bad Santa) Zwigoff film Ghost World. If I'm right, it's the song that Steve Buscemi's character Seymour introduces Thora Birch's Enid Coleslaw to (!)

[@lespaultexasburst2847]

It is, definitely. Many people heard it there for the first time.

[@mopardogdish7983]

Dude that is really good ,spot on.👍🦉

[@patrickbenoit9417]

Hi Adrian, one of my fav blues tune. Great tutorial and great playing . Thanx

[@timopeedu6077]

Thanks Adrian for this jewel. Your lessons, specially the blues ones, always make my day.

[@FernandoJ444]

I second this.

[@Dreyno]

Love Skip James. His voice is ghostly. I want to visit Bentonia some day just to soak up some of the atmosphere and maybe have a frosty beer in the Blue Front.

[@keithh8661]

Your a great teacher,love your style,thanks so much!

[@b3u3g3g3y]

Just wanted to say thank you for this video. I love Skip James and the 1930s delta blues artists, and I'm just starting to learn how to play in the style, and this video helped me very much. I've liked and subscribed!

[@dorsetpete9771]

Great lesson, thank you 🙏

[@cskueny]

Thank you for the time listings! That will help a lot on return visits. And thanks for this lessson.

[@mattjohnson788]

Excellent.

[@pishbot]

i love it when you play delta blues. i play a skip tune, hard time killing floor blues. thanks for this

[@garyrobinson1974]

That is utterly beautiful Adrian!

[@h2er80]

Love your lessons! thanks for sharing

[@geraldbrown2875]

😱 That was fantastic, dark as night but fantastic!👍🎸🇨🇦

[@nicolasturover2622]

Beautiful sound on this Martin too !

[@greglifetv]

Adrian, I've learned so much from your beginners tutorials, and I love the Skip James, Robert Johnson, etc. blues lessons. Any chance you could do a tutorial on Woody Guthrie / Early Dylan Talkin' Blues style? I've been playing around with it a lot, but can't quite get it down. I think it could be a good tutorial for beginners like me. Thanks so much for your work!

[@urbanogallucci4782]

Fantastic

[@delcapslock100]

Thank you for the great project during these long stay-home-and-telework days! Reminds me a lot of "Hard Time Killing Floor" from the Oh Brother Where Art Thou? soundtrack.

[@OIP_1]

same person! some similar licks in those two songs. both are incredible. 'crow jane' too.

[@crisslastname9417]

This is the first time I've seen you play your Martian. Awesome! Don't shy away from bringing out more. Great video!

[@Harp_and_Guitar_Moving_Forward]

👽

[@rockradstone]

@@Harp_and_Guitar_Moving_Forward I have two Martians---they live in my closet.

[@brunomarllon7]

great lesson. Can you do Crow Jane?

[@CC-qb9sm]

Fantastic! Thanks!

[@ErnestoGarcia-pu2cq]

amazing thanks

[@duanerykhus9425]

Thank you !!!

[@SirAbrantini]

Thanks for this.

[@brianm4922]

My guitar practice has just been hijacked for the next few months I think. You make this sound easy but it’s not although your excellent teaching, I’m sure, will get me there eventually. Thanks again.

[@faunoram]

Awesome video !! Skip James is rather Bentonia Blues style.

[@petestern3639]

Very great Adrian!

[@concretelightbulb7082]

That piece of music is as purtiful as that chocolate brown Martin you're playing it on.

[@gibby6904]

Fantastic lesson! Could you do One Kind Favor or as it's called See That My Grave Is Kept Clean? I think it is the same tuning.......

[@lespaultexasburst2847]

Thanks for this great lesson. I play that song in public sometimes and I learned from the way you execute the part on the 7th fret. Also I felt a strong urge to rework the end part thanks to you. I'm still not sure about how you play that Am chord during the verses though. I tend to simply go for 3 first strings on frets 2/3/4.

[@blancsteve4819]

Loved this song for years. now I have captured it. thanks mate have a request Belton Sutherland - Kill that grey mule.

[@rickjones8016]

Very very nice!

[@SSRT_JubyDuby8742]

Very cool, I have been playing killing floor blues since I heard it on oh brother were art thou, this will be a welcome addition. I'm not really a fan of the blues, but delta does seem to be an exception for me. Well in Adrian 😎🎸✅

[@jamesmilton-willmott7593]

loving all your lessons dude! great pick of songs! any chance of doing some more velvet underground please?

[@cskueny]

I also suggested VU recently and Adrian sounded receptive. Once upon a time we talked about Venus in Furs, although no electric viola. I could go for Heroin too! It's best with Cale's viola, but Lou played straight electric versions of it sometimes that sounded pretty good. Even though it should be simple, and I've seen some tabs for it, I've never seemed able to get it to sound right. Anything from the first three VU albums would be excellent.

[@НиколайРоманов-м7ф]

Thanks!

[@Hangmansjoke85]

Any chance of a Shes just killing me by ZZ top lesson ? Great channel Thanks

[@utkubulut6335]

You are wonderful

[@rodney4266]

Great tune ya more blues

[@lamper2]

What if you raised the 6th and 1st strings to F and approached this tuning that way? would that be wrong? or maybe just raised the 6th to F and lowered the 1st to D-lowering, of course 3rd to F in both cases?

[@nexusi6867]

Awesome! Could you please make a tutorial of Sugar Mama, Decoration Day or Tupelo Blues by John Lee Hooker? There a very few tutorials of his songs on KZbin(

[@Cocheez-vy7jn]

Skip James may be my favourite bluesman. It was his birthday yesterday (June 9). His haunting voice and unique fingerstyle really grabbed me when I was learning fingerpicking stuff on guitar. Why did you have to do Devil Got my Woman? It's an OK song but I prefer Crow Jane or Special Rider Blues or Hard Times Killing Floor Blues. Either way good video. Robert Johnson really overpopularized the mystique of the Devil. I like Robert Johnson but if he had make a faustian pact I don't think he would rely so heavily on the same Blues devices over and over like shuffle, walkback, etc.. made the music in Robert Johnson songs sound cookie cutter. I think Skip James was a much better player with all of his little nuances and the haunting sound in general. Skip James is criminally underrated. If it wasn't for John Fahey Skip may have faded into obscurity.

[@JellyrollHorton]

Whew! I thought Cliff Gallup's Race with the Devil was difficult! Skip James is even tougher!

[@cskueny]

Yes, I had to just put this one aside for now. Still working on Adrian's previous "Robert Johnson style" and Stack O'Lee and Vestapol lessons, and will tackle this one down the road.

[@zaxxx1975]

Str tune 4:04 aprox Did you call 5th strng 11fret an Fnote to base as tuneing G string to it. Ive got confused... Are we susposed to be in a drop tuneing at start? Can you just call out the string notes and ill tune accordingly. (Im gonna relisten ...i prob misssd something!?😦 Update!! ☝Open D minor tuneing!!😉 check. Oh dude dude dude.. Its yer guitar.. i was fret marker reading. Your 9th is very 12th looking. 👍👍

[@paulmuaddib1]

Nice arrangement as I have struggled with the as-recorded tablature and there are notes everywhere. Maddening. You've done a nice "cleaning up." As for Delta Blues or not, the author Stephen Calt wrote an excellent biography of James that covers interesting blues history. Calt claims Mississippi had no distinctive regions with differing blues styles and so "Delta Blues" has little meaning. It's all Mississippi blues. I leave the debate to scholars.

[@acpg]

Sounds like an interesting book - must try and pick it up!

[@albklang1272]

👏👏👏

[@stevewhiteley9249]

Love old Nehemiah, proper brooding and menace ;-)

[@rockradstone]

Yes please----don't skip Skip Spence. 😅 There are many Moby Grape fans in existence. We are legion, for we are many. 😉

[@thechampestofthemall]

Bentonia blues if I’m not mistaken

[@Jsssddfgffghshdhdhusjsjd]

How about a lesson on Buddy Holly's "That'll Be the Day", specifically the guitar solo?

[@Harp_and_Guitar_Moving_Forward]

Im putting a vid up soon

[@Jsssddfgffghshdhdhusjsjd]

@@Harp_and_Guitar_Moving_Forward ace.

[@AnticTube]

Got!

[@KUDGHAT1]

Heh adiie.... I have the same USA 00015 and I'm still playing ya Bm slow blues excepet the last phrase of the 2nd part

[@OldMastyr3]

Should be called "Devil Made A Whack Song".

[@KUDGHAT1]

Plz add some tom quail Guthrie type chromatic type with some funny limited shit like hybrid picking... I'm from India and vinnie n u r good teachers and fuckin God bless u

[@manwithapan9481]

I don't like it sounds like a durge, but the devil has got my woman :)

[@overtonesnteatime198]

Yeah i think you found my guitar..... i can send yu the shipping details

[@teddyboy9116]

Why didnt u sing along?...good playing tho btw!

[@msspi764]

Yeah, you play it well. But it isn't Delta. It's what they call Bentonia. It centers around a small town near Yazoo City away from the Delta. The D Minor or E Minor tunings are the hallmark of that. Jimmy "Duck" Holmes is the last remaining Bentonia bluesman. Blues in Mississippi and Louisiana and Arkansas is very regional, almost local, a function of the local nature that was the result of lack of transportation and the requirements of a sharecropping life.

[@acpg]

Good info thank-you. You obviously know more about the subtleties and history of this style than I do!

[@KUDGHAT1]

Something on the line of i know a little Lynyrd Skynyrd plz adrian simple man.... if I get rich I'll subscribe u..... u know what I mean !!!