"Six Strings Down" is a blues song recorded by Jimmie Vaughan in 1994. It is a tribute to his brother, Stevie Ray Vaughan, who died in 1990, and the memory of other deceased guitarists. The song was written by Art Neville, Eric Kolb, Aaron Neville, Cyril Neville, Kelsey Smith, and Vaughan. It first appeared on Vaughan's album Strange Pleasure, in 1994.[1]
The song was originally performed as an acoustic blues. The opening line, "Alpine Valley, in the middle of the night", refers to the Alpine Valley Music Theater, near East
Troy, Wisconsin, where the helicopter carrying Stevie Ray Vaughan and several others crashed following a concert in 1990. The song also mentions several other deceased blues guitarists: Jimi Hendrix (as the "voodoo child"), Albert Collins, Muddy Waters, and Lightnin' Hopkins. Its refrain includes the lyric "Heaven done called another blues stringer back home".[2]
Later versions of the song have been performed as electric blues with accompaniment. Live recordings include a 1996 tribute concert to Stevie Ray Vaughan, with Jimmie Vaughan, Eric Clapton, B.B. King, Robert Cray, Dr. John, Bonnie Raitt, Art Neville and Buddy Guy.[3] Vaughan, Clapton, and others performed it at the Crossroads Guitar Festival in 2004[4] and again in 2010 by Vaughan, Clapton, Robert Cray and Hubert Sumlin.[5]
"SixStringsDown" is a blues song recorded by Jimmie Vaughan in 1994. It is a tribute to his brother, Stevie Ray Vaughan, who died in 1990, and the memory...
first solo album Strange Pleasure in 1994. The album contained a song "SixStringsDown" that was dedicated to the memory of his brother. He has continued...
on the album. "SixStringsDown", cowritten with the Neville Brothers, is a tribute to Vaughan's brother. Vaughan, with "SixStringsDown" selected, chose...
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typically has six or twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant...
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commonly has four strings, though five- and six-stringed models are also relatively popular, and bass guitars with even more (or fewer) strings or courses have...
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pitches to the strings of an electric bass. Because pitches are associated with notes, bass-guitar tunings assign open notes to open strings. There are several...
string guitar, where the strings are tuned B-E-A-D-G-B-E. B tuning can also be achieved on a six-string guitar, when the strings are tuned B-E-A-D-F♯-B...
physics are replaced by one-dimensional objects called strings. String theory describes how these strings propagate through space and interact with each other...
instrument. The strings run over the fingerboard, between the nut and bridge. To play the instrument, a musician presses stringsdown to the fingerboard...
the octobass). Similar in structure to the cello, it has four or five strings. The bass is a standard member of the orchestra's string section, along...
unfingered strings are undampened, and the player is able to exert maximum pressure on the fretted strings, to avoid unwanted dampening. On a regular six-string...
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open-tunings give a major chord with the open strings. E-A-C♯-E-A-E Alternatively: A-E-A-E-A-C♯ (one step down from "Open B") "Slide" Open A: E-A-E-A-C♯-E...
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keys are depressed, through engagement of an action whose hammers strike strings. Most pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, representing each note...
using one finger to press down multiple strings across a single fret of the fingerboard (like a bar pressing down the strings). Players often use this...
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