From: picknconk@gmail.com   
      
   On Tuesday, August 4, 1998 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, Wayne Kelly wrote:   
   > Rick Ruskin wrote   
   > >Doc was most difinitely in standard tuning.   
   > >   
   > >Rick Ruskin   
   > >On Sat, 25 Jul 1998 13:59:05 -0400, "Steve & Caren Comeau"   
   > > wrote:   
   > >   
   > >>I'm figuring out Doc Watson's "Deep River Blues" by ear and I've worked   
   > out   
   > >>an arrangement where I capo on the 4th fret and start with a first   
   > position   
   > >>C5 chord. However, I hear Doc play bass runs that go below the G# on the   
   > >>capoed low E string.   
   > >>   
   > A friend of mine taught me this song in the key of E with no capo. The   
   > following seems (to my ear) to be right.   
   > The initial chord is a first position B7 but shifted all the way up to the   
   > 7th fret, which makes it an E7. Play this chord with the open 6th (E)   
   > string as the primary bass string. The second chord is the same chord form   
   > as the first one (i.e., a B7 form) but shifted down one fret to the 6th   
   > string (making it an Eb7) and play the 5th string as the primary bass   
   > string.   
   > From there he goes back to the first E7 chord then drops down to first   
   > position A7, A, E and B7 chords.   
   > So, it goes like this:   
   > (E7) Let it rain (Eb7) let it pour (E7) let it rain a (A7) whole lot (A)   
   > more 'cause   
   > (E) I've got them deep river (B7) blues.   
   For all the years I knew and played with Doc, this is the first I ever heard   
   of DRB in open E  We always played standard tuning...I'm surprised to see   
   this..   
      
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