{"id":775,"date":"2016-04-10T07:00:52","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T11:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/?p=775"},"modified":"2020-12-17T14:56:19","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T19:56:19","slug":"thats-no-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/thats-no-way\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s No Way to Get Along (Robert Wilkins\/Rolling Stones)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"That&#039;s No Way to Get Along\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tnASqMz7ll4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is a perfect example of the benefits and drawbacks of tablature, and also of how different the world was in those distant days before the internet. I had Stefan Grossman&#8217;s <em>Country Blues Guitar<\/em> book by the time I wa<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-776 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/country-blues-guitar-book.jpg?resize=225%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"country blues guitar book\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/country-blues-guitar-book.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/country-blues-guitar-book.jpg?w=250&amp;ssl=1 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>s twelve or so, and although I always had trouble making sense of his quirky tablature, I learned how to play one of my favorite songs from it, John Hurt&#8217;s version of &#8220;Stagolee,&#8221; as well as Furry Lewis&#8217;s version of the same ballad. I also learned this song by Robert Wilkins &#8212; except, in those days we didn&#8217;t have the internet and I had no way of hearing Wilkins&#8217;s recording.<\/p>\n<p>Wilkins recorded this in 1929, and it was reissued in the early 1960s on an Origin Jazz Library anthology, <em>The Mississippi Blues 1927-1940<\/em>, but I didn&#8217;t have that record and am not sure how I would have found it &#8212; it had been a major source for the previous generation of blues revivalists, but like the Harry Smith anthology of American folk music it had been largely forgotten by the time I came along. So I had Grossman&#8217;s tablature and his transcription of the lyrics, but didn&#8217;t know how the damn thing was supposed to sound. However&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>What I did have, by maybe age thirteen or so, was the Rolling Stones&#8217; <em>Beggar<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-777 \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/BeggarsBanquetLP.jpg?resize=234%2C232&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/BeggarsBanquetLP.jpg?resize=300%2C298&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/BeggarsBanquetLP.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/BeggarsBanquetLP.jpg?w=302&amp;ssl=1 302w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/>s Banquet <\/em>LP, on which they played Wilkins&#8217;s Christian rewrite of his old blues song &#8212; by the 1960s Wilkins had become a minister and no longer sang blues, but in 1964 he recorded an album called <em>Memphis Gospel Singer<\/em> that included &#8220;Prodigal Son,&#8221; a retelling of the Bible story set to the guitar arrangement of &#8220;That&#8217;s No Way to Get Along.&#8221; I&#8217;m not sure how I made the connection, but I did, and I was always looking for ways to make my archaic tastes seem hipper and liked the idea of having at least a sort of Rolling Stones song in my repertoire, and in any case that was the only source I had. So with the Rolling Stones in my ears, I sat down with Grossman&#8217;s book and learned this song&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Except that when I finally got to hear the 1929 Wilkins recording, it&#8217;s much quirkier and more<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-935 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Robert_Wilkins.jpg?resize=220%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" \/> interesting than the way the Rolling Stones did &#8220;Prodigal Son,&#8221; not to mention the jury-rigged creation I extrapolated. If I were going to do it regularly, I&#8217;d go back and listen to Wilkins, but in the meanwhile here it is the way I&#8217;ve been doing it since the 1970s, a mix of Wilkins as filtered through the Stones and Grossman, with lyrics vaguely remembered from both sources.<\/p>\n<p>As to the vagueness of my memory regarding the lyrics: I very rarely played in &#8220;open&#8221; tunings, and never really felt comfortable in them, but this was one of my introductions to the concept, and I eventually turned it into an instrumental, which I played for many years whenever someone requested something by John Fahey or Leo Kottke &#8212; I was not a fan of either of them, but wanted to be able to handle the requests, so I worked this up into a fast, noodling meditation in open D, which I titled &#8220;The Resurrection of the Great Sea Snail.&#8221;\u00a0 If I really wanted to provide a sense of what I used to play, I could probably work that baby up again, but trust me, the world can live without it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A traveling blues from Robert Wilkins, with a modifications due to the limitations of tablature, my memory, the pre-internet world, and the Rolling Stones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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