Level: 2
Tuning: Dropped D

This arrangement combines playing techniques of Mance Lipscomb and Mississippi John Hurt. From Mance we take the idea of playing a ragtime blues in the key of A in Dropped D tuning (D A D G B E) From Mississippi John Hurt we borrow his alternating bass. The Dropped D tuning is very effective when we go to our D chord and the low sixth string D note booms out. There are many variations of "Spoonful" from Mississippi John Hurt's "Coffee Blues" to Howlin' Wolf's "Spoonful."