Charlie Parr teaches me the SECRET to 817 Oakland Avenue

Charlie Parr, along with his trusty steel bodied guitar from Mule Resophonic's, stopped into the shop the other day to talk about one of my favorites from his Smithsonian Folkways release, Last of the Better Days ahead, "817 Oakland Avenue". By the sounds of it, a lot of you have been trying to learn this one but have come up against a wall, so here we go!

In this video we’ll talk about everything that makes this song unique. We're gonna go into the picking patterns, the chords, the custom made Fraulini 12-string Todd Cambio made for him that he used on the record (similar to the one you saw in my recent 12-string video with Todd Albright) , and the secret weapon Charlie uses to make it all possible, the Shubb Partial Capo.

Also, going off of lessons I’ve done here with Charlie in the past, I know there are going to be a whole pile of you looking for tab for this one. As a bonus feature at the end, Charlie and I offer a little insight about tab, and why there won’t be any for this tune. That said, I will be popping in and out of the video to show a few of the finer points in playing this tune.

Enjoy!!

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