Here’s my take on Ry Cooder‘s masterpiece “Paris, Texas“, written for the soundtrack of Win Wender‘s film of the same name.
Loosely based on “Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground“, by Blind Willie Johnson, the haunting tones and eerie atmosphere of this tune has fascinated me since I was a child, and sparked in me the love for slide guitar.
This is the lick Phil Palmer plays at the end of the live version of Calling Elvis (as recorded on the 1993 album On the Night). In the video Phil Palmer’s guitar is tuned up a whole step, I use a capo instead…
Many thanks to La Voz de Galicia for getting the word out about the start of the new 2022/2023 academic year at the studio. You can read the article here (Spanish and Galician).