Mr. Cantrell has always been my favorite Satan and Adam song. A couple years back, I spent several hours with the slow-downer trying to figure out what Adam was doing in that song. Eventually, I thought I had "gotten" the main series of riffs, and I started working it into my sets playing out on the streets of Phoenix. I kinda made up other parts to the song that seemed to me to fit, and worked them between bouts of the main riff of the song... I found it to be a really great song to play to bring it down after blasting on a one-chord rhythmic groove, or a loud rock-blues number, and the folks on the street seemed to really dig it too...
Well, while taking a short (okay, a long) break from dissertation writing this morning, I happened to check my YouTube subscription feed, and saw a shiny new video from Doc. Gussow, promising to reveal the secrets of the main riffs of Mr. Cantrell! It was so interesting to me to see what he really does, and to compare it to what I had thought I figured out on my own... Needless to say, there were a lot of differences!
Inspired by the lesson, and the new tricks I had just learned, I broke out the A harp, turned on the webcam, and recorded a cover version:
In my version here, I combine some of the riffs that I made up myself with the main riff as taught by Adam in his lesson. I still don't tongue-block at all on this song (apart from the 4-6 blow). If you hear something that sounds like a tongue-slap in my version, it isn't. It's my lip-pursing emulation of a tongue-slap (which I call a "lip-slap").
Anyway, after I recorded and uploaded my version here, I thought to myself "self. instead of writing, you've wasted this much time on this thing so far today, so why not start a thread on this over at MBH". I thought it would be cool to see if anyone else has worked up a cover version of Mr. Cantrell, and to collect them all in a single thread for general discussion and delight! So, if you've got a version of this song, or if you've got the time to work one up, post it here!
