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IrishBubbaLiberal

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2. Taj Majal (Jesse Ed Davis - Slide Guitar) - Statesboro Blues - 1968
Mon May 5, 2025, 03:21 PM
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From Duane Allman Website;



August 21, 1967: Recording session for Taj Mahal's first album 'Taj Mahal'. Jesse Ed Davis plays electric slide guitar on 'Statesboro Blues'.

"I had never really played bottleneck before that," Davis explained in Guitar Player, "and so for that recording I just put a steel tube on my finger and worked up a line. I just played it in regular tuning. I didn’t know about open tunings until I saw Muddy Waters play at the Whisky in Los Angeles some time after that.

(Steven Rosen: 'Jesse Ed Davis', Guitar Player magazine, March 1974)


1968; Taj Mahal's first album is released. (NOTE) (DETAILS)
Jesse Ed Davis plays electric slide guitar on 'Statesboro Blues'.

In 1970 The Allman Brothers Band recorded "Statesboro Blues" during the recording sessions for their "Idlewild South" album, but that track was not released until 1989 on the "Dreams" box set.
They recorded a live version of the song in March 1971 for their "At Fillmore East" album.

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