Al Petteway's "River" by Doug Young
Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2020 3:32 pm
Here's a video of a terrific take on an Al Petteway original tune, "River." The tune comes from Petteway's CD "The Waters and the Wild" from the mid-90s. The video is by fellow Tab Pig, Doug "Gig" Young, and is being played on a '26 Martin 000-18 that Doug recently bought from Petteway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwwkF2S-3kE
The tune is in the Mel Bay tab book "Al Petteway, The Waters and the Wild." But a tab for just the tune is available here at Petteway's website:
http://www.alandamy.com/store/index.php?pid=165
In Open G, what I find unique about the tune is that, from a "finger fretting" standpoint, the tune is exceptionally easy to play. In that, with a *lot* of open string notes, at no time do you ever have more than *two* notes fretted at the same time! Great slow and melodic tune for these....hmmm?...."troubled times."
And note that "Gig" Young, like Petteway, is a terrific player too. Out in the SF Bay area and a former CAAS attendee (with the other "pigs"), Doug is a Contributing Editor to Acoustic Guitar magazine and has several CDs and books out himself. See here and his other videos on youtube:
http://dougyoungguitar.com/
And while Doug is mostly known for his open tuning playing, especially in DADGAD (with a Mel Book out re.), Doug like most is also a big Chet fan and here's a video lesson he did 10 years ago for Acoustic Guitar magazine regarding playing Chet Atkins style:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzFnVJQ9NCA
Jim Jarrell
DeLand, FL
www.tabpigs.org
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwwkF2S-3kE
The tune is in the Mel Bay tab book "Al Petteway, The Waters and the Wild." But a tab for just the tune is available here at Petteway's website:
http://www.alandamy.com/store/index.php?pid=165
In Open G, what I find unique about the tune is that, from a "finger fretting" standpoint, the tune is exceptionally easy to play. In that, with a *lot* of open string notes, at no time do you ever have more than *two* notes fretted at the same time! Great slow and melodic tune for these....hmmm?...."troubled times."
And note that "Gig" Young, like Petteway, is a terrific player too. Out in the SF Bay area and a former CAAS attendee (with the other "pigs"), Doug is a Contributing Editor to Acoustic Guitar magazine and has several CDs and books out himself. See here and his other videos on youtube:
http://dougyoungguitar.com/
And while Doug is mostly known for his open tuning playing, especially in DADGAD (with a Mel Book out re.), Doug like most is also a big Chet fan and here's a video lesson he did 10 years ago for Acoustic Guitar magazine regarding playing Chet Atkins style:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzFnVJQ9NCA
Jim Jarrell
DeLand, FL
www.tabpigs.org