You can tell when something has character
And has some sort of like, it wants to be played, you know
And, uh, that guitar did not want to be played by me initially (Oh, interesting)
It would like, dive out of tune
It would stay in tune and then it would just like
Like one string just decided, just fly out of tune and I was like, "What in the fuck?"
And uh, and finally at one point I like sat in my little house
I was like, "I'm gonna fucking finally commune with this—
With Jay Manley over here," and he was like, "Okay, buddy
What, let's see you what you wanna do (Let's do it)
Let's, let's do you what you wanna do, fuck what I wanna do"
And I just sort of tuned it to itself
And like, I had barely been experimenting with kinda open tunings and stuff
I, I, I sort of started scratching the surface of that (Right)
And so I like, I don't, you know, I never, I never used a tuner with it or anything
I just found where it wanted to be
And it was like roughly somewhere between
It was probably like open C sharp-ish, open B
But probably a little lower (Right)
And then it sort of got in this thing and then it just wouldn't go out of tune in this one area, you know?
And I feel like that
Alm—, almost instantly it, it, it sort of felt like my hand was being sort of being jerked around
Like I was just making leaps on the guitar (Yeah)
You know, to certain areas
And pretty quickly I wrote the song that turned into "Roll the Bones"
That was like one of the first times I played it, it just started playing kind of that song
And (Woah, that's amazing)
And so the songs that came out of that guitar (I mean, it's a classic)
Yeah, the songs that came out of that guitar
Built around, uh, late July
It created my style of playing that now I like to simulate often
So, so, do you feel like it kind of unlocked something for you?
It felt like, uh, I was taught that
By, by that guitar
And has some sort of like, it wants to be played, you know
And, uh, that guitar did not want to be played by me initially (Oh, interesting)
It would like, dive out of tune
It would stay in tune and then it would just like
Like one string just decided, just fly out of tune and I was like, "What in the fuck?"
And uh, and finally at one point I like sat in my little house
I was like, "I'm gonna fucking finally commune with this—
With Jay Manley over here," and he was like, "Okay, buddy
What, let's see you what you wanna do (Let's do it)
Let's, let's do you what you wanna do, fuck what I wanna do"
And I just sort of tuned it to itself
And like, I had barely been experimenting with kinda open tunings and stuff
I, I, I sort of started scratching the surface of that (Right)
And so I like, I don't, you know, I never, I never used a tuner with it or anything
I just found where it wanted to be
And it was like roughly somewhere between
It was probably like open C sharp-ish, open B
But probably a little lower (Right)
And then it sort of got in this thing and then it just wouldn't go out of tune in this one area, you know?
And I feel like that
Alm—, almost instantly it, it, it sort of felt like my hand was being sort of being jerked around
Like I was just making leaps on the guitar (Yeah)
You know, to certain areas
And pretty quickly I wrote the song that turned into "Roll the Bones"
That was like one of the first times I played it, it just started playing kind of that song
And (Woah, that's amazing)
And so the songs that came out of that guitar (I mean, it's a classic)
Yeah, the songs that came out of that guitar
Built around, uh, late July
It created my style of playing that now I like to simulate often
So, so, do you feel like it kind of unlocked something for you?
It felt like, uh, I was taught that
By, by that guitar
( Shakey Graves )
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