Jerusalem Ridge on a Bob Thompson OM
 

I posted a Christmas tune and it got deleted. I have no idea why, but I'm going to try it again with this tune instead. This is a Bill Monroe tune called Jerusalem Ridge. Played on my Bob Thompson OM, EIR back and sides and Red Spruce top.

Wow, Allen that's a great performance of a fave tune and one heck of a great sounding guitar!!!

I've always kept an eye out for one of his instruments - saw his "bio" video on his site several years back and immediately liked the guy - so endearing.

Again, very well done!

That sounded great, thank you for posting. I reviewed all your threads and there is no thread of you with a Christmas song which was deleted. Perhaps there was an error when posting, but I just wanted you to know that it was not deleted by any of the moderators that I can find.

Thanks, but it was posted and up for probably a week or so, and had several comments. I checked in one day to see if there were any other comments and it was gone. No trace.

Allen,

Very nice arrangement.

I've been paying a couple variations of this tune for 2yrs now, give or take & can definitely try to incorporate a few of your licks! The version I learned is from Bryan Sutton.

One thing that always stood out to me, is the "timing" in the 'C' part. I would love to hear your thoughts on this, with regard to the original Monroe version. IMO, it has a different sound/ feel than the way I play it.

Thanks in advance & thanks for sharing.

Outstanding playing as usual Allen.

I'm not sure what you mean about the timing in the C part. It is just straight forward, the changes being Am-Dm-E-Am. They fall on the one and three in a four count. That is the straight version, there are variations of course.

Well I don't know then, there is no record of it, that is very strange. Let me look around some more.

Thanks for the reply, Allen.

The variations that I play are straight timing in a four count, as you say.

It just seems there's a little more 'swing' in your version, and in the original.

Mighty fine geetar pickin', mighty fine.

One of my favorite tunes - still working on it.

CK

Love it Allen! Thanks for sharing! And that Thompson sounds great (though I’m sure you could make pretty much anything sing!).