Don't Speak To Me - Lottie Kimbrough - Acoustic Blues TAB avl
I teach this song in my lesson pack volume 8 (TAB + video) https://www.daddystovepipe.com/guitar-lesson-pack-tabs-volume-8.php Standard tuning, C position, capo I The song has a peculiar, but pleasing progression, right out of the vaudeville area. I'm playing a copy of a 1934 Gibson L00 made by John Greven Lottie Kimbrough, aka "The Kansas City Butterball" was quite a singer. Listen to the origial version with Miles Pruitt on guitar (using a high G-string) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB6cioBj6_0 Please, do a search for her on YouTube and listen to great songs like : Lost Lover Blues, Wayward Son Blues, Rolling Log Blues, Going Away Blues. All masterpieces of country blues, stunning singing and guitarplaying. I recorded a version of her Wayward Girl Blues on 12-string guitar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGd4tlTL7HA
About Lottie Kimbrough
Birth name of American blues singer active in the Kansas City area. Born: 1893 in Jonesboro, Craighead County, Arkansas or 1900 in West Bottoms, Kansas City, Missouri. Died: No death information has been unearthed. She recorded as Lottie Beaman in 1924, as Lottie Kimbrough in 1926 and 1928, and again as Lottie Beaman in 1929. Sylvester Kimbrough was her brother.
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