High Water Everywhere Revisited

Another take on "High Water Everywhere" by Charlie Patton... exploring the lyrics and the legend of a man whose recordings in themselves don't always live up to the myth...or the potential that Howlin' Wolf saw in them....it may be that seeing Charlie live was a totally different experience that what we got when he was in the artificial setting of trying to capture a musical piece for the "record". A good dose of whiskey and a hot and hoppin' audience surely brought out a different aspect of his performance. So I offer more an interpretation that any attempt, hopeless at best, to copy or imitate his sound...but most of not to tame it into another ragtime guitar style...you here it in his music but it is somewhat at odds with his vocals and lyrics...I tend to go towards the darker more minor pentatonic tonality of accompaniment that only seems to come out with Mississippi Delta blues guitarists that played with a slide...