Level: 2/3
Tuning: Standard

Originally inspired by Big Bill Broonzy’s rendition, I started out playing this (as is often the case in these arrangements) as an exercise in getting that driving, walking bass line down while adding an additional line. This is another example of employing a somewhat “pianistic” approach to the guitar by having the bass line of the guitar mimic the lefthand of the piano and the top strings doing the righthand.

So with that in mind I would start by playing the bass line and making that as comfortable as possible before adding the rest. Some of the trickiness will be in getting the guitar to sound clean as you go up the neck in those B shapes, given that the lefthand is covering a fair amount of ground and the righthand is still picking out that walking bass line. This is even more the case in the variation where the lefthand is working much harder.