Level: 3
Tuning: Open A

This is Fred McDowell's wonderful slide arrangement of Sleepy John Estes's "Someday Baby Blues." Originally released in 1935 it has been recorded in different settings by dozens of bluesmen as diverse as Tampa Red to Lighnin' Hopkins, to the Shelton Brothers to Bob Dylan. Fred McDowell plays his arrangement in an Open A tuning using an alternating bass technique with the melody played with the slide on the high strings.