Level: 2
Tuning: D G D G B E

Barbecue Bob was a popular twelve-string blues artist from Atlanta, Georgia. He recorded many sides in the late 1920s. "Mississippi Heavy Water Blues" was one of his "hits". It recounted the great Mississippi floods of 1927. Barbecue Bob played this out of an open G tuning. I have arranged it in a quasi-open G tuning (D G D G B E). You tune down a full tone the sixth and fifth strings. My right approach uses an alternating bass. The tuning allows this to be easily played and to finish off each verse with Barbecue Bob's trademark bass snapped lick.