Guitar Sessions 49: Play Gillian Welch’s “Tear My Stillhouse Down”
Since interviewing Gillian Welch and David Rawlings for a recent Acoustic Guitar cover story (which you can read here), I’ve been happily re-immersed in their music. So I thought I’d share one of their classic songs for this episode of Guitar Sessions: “Tear My Stillhouse Down,” from their seminal debut album, Revival.
“Stillhouse” is a bluesy three-chord song played in dropped-D tuning, and it’s a great one for a jam session. You can play a very simple rhythm, but there are also lots of opportunities to add riffs and instrumental breaks because of the tuning.
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