Level: 3
Tuning: Standard

From the 1980 "Go To Heaven" album, "Alabama Getaway" is one of many Robert Hunter/Jerry Garcia collaborations. In this key-of-E arrangement, the thumb picks out a monotone bass (playing the root of each chord on all four downbeats) during the vocal/verse, with the fingers picking a counterpoint blues lick on the 2nd and 3rd strings. The backup during the vocal chorus is a typical Chuck Berry-style boogie-woogie bass lick. The instrumental solo starts with the "train whistle" lick, a device used by many blues guitarists in key-of-E blues tunes. It continues the monotone thumb/bass, and there's an up-the-neck B chord at the 7th fret, as well as a "power chord" rock figure (the G lick at the end of the solo).