Level: 3
Tuning: Standard

Skip James recorded "If You Haven't Any Hay Get On Down The Road" in 1931 for Paramount Records. He played this on the piano. When he was rediscovered in 1964 we finally were able to learn directly from Skip and not the old, rare crackling 78s. Skip played most of his guitar arrangements in the Crossnote Tuning (E B E G B E). But he also used Standard tuning for a few tunes. He had an arrangement on guitar for "If You Haven't Any Hay Get On Down The Road" but titled it "All Night Long". This was played in the key of E. I picked up some of Skip's licks and put together the version taught here. It has the idiosyncrasies of Skip's timing and fingerings and is interesting to compare to Willie Brown's "M&O Blues" and my "New Pony Blues".