Beautiful song by a wonderful talent. Jerry Reed is probably one of the most under rated guitarists and vocalist that was ever recorded in Nashville. Although he is gone, his music should not be forgotten.
I remember the first time I saw Clapton performing this song on MTV Unplugged. That was back in the 80′s, If I remember correctly. I recall not being too excited about the song, and thinking about how much better the original is.
It seems like this version has become the standard for the song. Whenever you mention “Layla” to anyone these days, they immediately think about the unplugged version. Either way, Eric Clapton and Layla are part of rock legend.
I like it more these days, especially when I play it on guitar. (gettin slow in my old age).
Play/download the song in box.net (Links in “Downloads”)
Thanks to Pam, Susan, and Joe for getting me started practicing this song on my guitar this past Saturday night. After listening to it, It got stuck in my head. Blue On Black is a song that my band I, (when we still played often), used to play “back in the day”, when the tune first made the top ten. We always did the acoustic version and I still haven’t learned the solo part yet. Our lead guitar player was Joey Stason at the time and he could burn that solo up man, I mean, he hit every Kenny Wayne Shepherd lick, then some. I lost track of Jason when he went to Iraq with the Marines in 2001.
Free play or download in box.net. (Links to the right).
Enjoy
The song can be played with 4 chords, mainly in progression with one break.
Chords are D, C, G and A. All modified.
The “A” is played at the break during the end verse of the chorus.
Link for Blue on Black lyrics.
Other than that I am not going to get any further into it. I ain’t here to give a lesson, I am here to write about it.
Peace!
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