{"id":863,"date":"2016-04-09T07:00:04","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T11:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/?p=863"},"modified":"2017-07-10T18:27:56","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T22:27:56","slug":"got-blues-cant-satisfied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/got-blues-cant-satisfied\/","title":{"rendered":"Got the Blues, Can&#8217;t Be Satisfied (John Hurt)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Got the Blues, Can&#039;t Be Satisfied\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V3A4OVtt9eY?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 has always been one of my favorite John Hurt songs &#8212; it&#8217;s a murder ballad and a cheating song, in the best southern country tradition, but framed with a quietly philosophical fatalism that makes a striking contrast to the melodrama and violence of the central story.<\/p>\n<p>I often teach this one as an example of Hurt&#8217;s brilliant way of getting around the guitar neck <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-870 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/John-Hurt-300x243.jpg?resize=300%2C243\" alt=\"John Hurt\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/John-Hurt.jpg?resize=300%2C243&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/John-Hurt.jpg?w=350&amp;ssl=1 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>&#8212; he played what sounded right to him, which sometimes meant holding the chords other people would hold,\u00a0 but sometimes meant going his own way. This song has a more developed version of the same move he made in &#8220;Louis Collins,&#8221; taking the G chord that is the root of the song and moving it up two frets to get a high A note &#8212; which in this case means he is using the G shape, moved up to A, to play what for other people would be a C chord&#8230; that may sound confusing to non-guitarists, and even more confusing to guitarists, until you try it, at which point it sounds just fine, at least for &#8220;Got the Blues, Can&#8217;t Be Satisfied.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This was another I learned early on from Donald Garwood&#8217;s book, but it was many years before I really appreciated it, or figured out how to play it properly, and more years before it got to feeling or sounding anything like comfortable. Hurt was a deceptively great guitarist, who made everything sound simple and pretty, thereby disguising how hard it is to do what he did. I have the basics, more or less, but the grace and tone of his playing are a whole nother thing.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like the experience of watching Fred Astaire dance, and feeling like you can do that, too, because it&#8217;s so relaxed and friendly, and trying it yourself, and it works &#8212; just like flying in a dream. I&#8217;ve been working on this for over forty years, and I&#8217;ve learned a lot of things along the way and consider the time very well spent. But one of the things I keep learning, over and over, is that there never was, is, or will be anyone else who sounds like John Hurt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has always been one of my favorite John Hurt songs &#8212; it&#8217;s a murder ballad and a cheating song, in the best southern country tradition, but framed with a quietly philosophical fatalism that makes a striking contrast to the melodrama and violence of the central story. 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