Level: 2/3
Tuning: Open D

Tom Feldmann takes you step by step through this Blind Willie Johnson classic. There really is no other tune quite like Dark Was The Night Cold Was The Ground in the prewar blue catalog, haunting is the most common description when talking about this masterpiece. Single string slide throughout but full of vibrato, hammer-ons, pull offs, and sporadic bass. The key is to not rush from one phrase to the next, let it breathe and the piece will come together.