Not really sure why I’m sharing this here, since there’s really no fancy picking at all, but… I grew up on John Prine, and I may be more of a shred guy today but he’s always been one of my favorite singer songwriters. I took the news that he’d died pretty hard, more than I expected, and I guess this was how I came to terms with it, taking a song of his I’d always loved and working out the vocal on guitar.
This is one of those songs that I can’t believe someone actually wrote, and every time I hear it the lyrics just kill me. Maybe a little more so these days. “If dreams were lightning, and thunder were desire, this old house woulda burnt down a long time ago…” Initially I planned to step on the gain halfway through and put some sort of a bluesy solo in there, but after I recorded the backing for this I ended up deleting the solo section I’d left myself - it just didn’t feel right.