Love In Vain

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Scott Burns
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Love In Vain

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About to dive into the world of steel, and would like to learn the great blues classic "Love In Vain", will play a resonator square neck, so tuning will be in G Major. Thanks

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Steve Feldman
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Can't help you with tab, but I can point you to a couple of good sources:

1) Arlen Roth has tab and music for an open G version in his "Traditional, Country, and Electric Slide Guitar" (1975) on Oak Publications (ISBN 0-8256-0162-2), and

2) Scott Ainslie's "Robert Johnson: At the Crossroads, The Authoritative Guitar Transcriptions" (1992) Hal-Leonard Corp (ISBN 0-7935-1093-7). This one's the Real McCoy if you want Johnson's version.
Scott Burns
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Thanks Steve, do you think I could pay it some night at "Sue's Lucky Strike" in Elko?
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Ha! Sure - I'm sure they'd let you play, but I doubt you'd get any 'play for play'...
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Oh - wait a minute....did you say PLAY or PAY because if you said the latter, the outcome would be totally different!
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Wow, was that somekind of Freudian slip or what! "I've never been to Elko, Honest honey."

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