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Saturday Killer Blues: Joe Bonamassa, "Just Got Paid" [VIDEO]

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Mattand3/28/2020 12:22:41 pm PDT

Pulling it back to music for a second:

Finally got around to watching the John Fogerty clip from a few posts back. Amazing that he still has it.

Charles pointed out that Fogerty is still performing the songs in their original keys. I learned to play Bad Moon Rising in D (D-G-A) going off the record. In the video, it looks like he’s playing in E (E-A-B).

I have tablature for Fortunate Son, and it says to tune the whole guitar down one step to D, resulting in different chord shapes. I was wondering if that is something Fogerty has done his whole career and did that somehow make singing easier on his vocal chords.

Now that I’m typing it out, maybe not, since you have to hit those notes anyway. Charles or any other musicians have insight on that?