Blood Bank, by Bon Iver.
Whoooooooooooo wheeeeeeee we are getting into it now, when it comes to songs I’ve been singing along with for years but never had the fortitude to really look up and try to play.
I left the acoustic in the weird Fleet Foxes tuning last night, and looked for something similar tonight, but also kinda wanted to play something by The Band, and gave Jemima Surrender a couple false starts (it’s just in dropped D tho) before dinner. Came back after the kids’ bedtime, gave a Pavement song a shot, put it on the list for later, and kept spelunking for anything near this tuning that I could pull off, Dylan and Stones aside.
Lo and behold, my favorite Bon Iver song is in an even weirder tuning if you believe what you read on the internet. I just played this song in DG#CGG* and the asterisk is because it’s supposed to be a D but I finally broke a dang string.
Fittingly enough, I was flipping through guitar videos on Insta (my one remaining Facebook-owned vice/communication de-vice), and saw two things: 1) a TikTok about changing your dang strings, and 2) an old video of BB King (not my favorite but whatevs) playing some Gospel blues, on stage, and changing out his broken high E string while singing and no one else missed a beat.
Inspirational! So I broke a string.
And then I played this song, which I love.
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Also, ya gotta layer in the Oooooohs. A bunch of those, but just one backing vocal. Kinda feel like I got the right feeling, though. Weird tuned broke string guitar and a second guitar transposed down for a pumping bassline through the whole thing.
Feeling good about this one.
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