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Terry Lee Hale - Michigan Weather

Bob-Dubery

It's all Squonk's fault! He had to go and buy a TLH CD and get me tuned into Mr Hale's signal again.

Anyhoo... nice song (alternate tuning, but don't ask me what).

Terry Lee Hale is a singer/guitarist/songwriter from (IIRC) Seattle. He's not well known in his own country, but seems to be doing fairly well on the Benelux/East Europe Americana circuit.

AlanRatcliffe

Nice! Kind of Chet Atkins with the laid back feel of JJ Cale. Me Likee..

Bob-Dubery

X-rated Bob wrote: Anyhoo... nice song (alternate tuning, but don't ask me what).

Turns out it's DADGAD. Mr Hale provides tabs for several of his songs, and you can find the tab for this one at http://www.terryleehale.com/tablatures/Michigan%20Weather.pdf

Squonk

So far my favourite song on "The Blue Room".

The insert has all the Alternate Tunings that he uses. I am quite fascinated at the way he uses Alternate Tunings, quite different to UK stuff that I have been exposed to e.g. Martin Simpson.

Get's that real Americana feel , a kind of Folky blues mix.

My DADGAD always comes out a bit Celtic, this is opening up my understanding...

Thanks Bob

Bob-Dubery

Squonk wrote: My DADGAD always comes out a bit Celtic, this is opening up my understanding...

What I was thinking as well. I associate DADGAD with a more European or North African sound (Davy Graham says he devised DADGAD to make it easier to transpose music written for the oud onto guitar), so I was quite happily surprised to find that this piece was in DADGAD.

Hale seems to be one of those guys who has only a passing acquaintance with standard tuning.