This week I’ve been relaxing listening to some fingerstyle and slide guitar blues played on resonator guitars. I totally love that sound and they’re beautiful instruments to look at too. So I thought I’d paint one.
It was quite fun because the resonator is beautifully shiny giving me a bit of a challenge painting-wise.
I started with a pencil drawing…
Then I began to paint in gouache…
Here’s the final painting…
Now I just can’t paint one of these beauties without hearing a few of them ‘sing’. I definitely prefer the wooden body resonator guitars. I think the tone is just so much warmer.
So here’re some examples of the good stuff…
This is ‘The Swamp Dog Blues’ played on a 1930’s Broman Resonator Guitar. Unfotunately I don’t know who the musician is on this lovely piece. He makes the guitar cry. I think it’s beautiful.
I also totally love this sound (below). This is Mike Dowling playing “Blues in G“. I love the subtlety and understated character of this one.
Finally, this one’s a bit more country than blues despite the name. This is Greg Booth Playing Johnny Cash’s ‘Folsom Prison Blues’ on a dobro. (It’s actually a Scheerhorn L body ’09. The tuning is regular G tuning with the low G dropped to E. EBDGBD)
(Please note, all three of these YouTube videos belong to their respective owners. They’re just examples of the music that I love the most.)
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