Street Corner Rag - Bottleneck Slide Instrumental on a Delta “Louisiana“ resonator guitar

I learned this song from the great Mike Dowling. You can find it on his excellent cd called “Blue Fandango“. Mike is one of the best pickers around and has plenty of fine cd’s; visit his website at If you’re interested in learning how to play this song then get Mike’s dvd called “Bottleneck Blues and Beyond 2“ It’s available at Homespun Tapes. This song is special in two ways. First the guitar is tuned to open D but the song is played in the key of G. This means that the 5th fret is your homebase. Secondly, it uses unusual behind the slide fretting. You’ll see that I lift up the slide towards my face so that the first string is not fretted by the slide anymore and thus can be fretted by my index finger. Why didn’t I think of that...