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Recorded at Dry Creek Studio during the COVID19 isolation season, for my "Song of the Day" series

Song of the day: 05-04-2021
Good Shepherd, traditional, arranged by Jorma Kaukonen

I learned this song from Jefferson Airplane, who featured it in their 1969 album Volunteers. Their version, titled "Good Shepherd", is a psychedelic folk-rock adaptation of a traditional folk/blues song with roots in early 19th century Methodist hymnary.

Guitarist/singer Jorma Kaukonen adapted his arrangement from a 1936 recording by blind blues player Jimmie Strothers, recorded while he was in prison, which was titled "The Blood-Stained Banders", and played on a four-string banjo. On Volunteers, Kaukonen plays a searing, scratchy electric guitar riff that repeats through the song and, together with Grace Slick's backing vocals, gives it a distinctly JA acid-rock flavor, which I happen to love, btw. I stripped it back down to acoustic mode for today's recording, which feels like a fitting prayer for these difficult times.

Can't you hear my lambs a-callin'?
Oh, Good Shepherd, feed my sheep...
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