THE SWORD To Release Vinyl 7” Of “John The Revelator” For Record Store Day; "Buzzards" (Part 1) Guitar Lesson Video Streaming
April 14, 2016, 8 years ago
Following the success of the release of the picture disc of their current album High Country for the fall Record Store Day celebration, The Sword come back for this Saturday’s Record Store Day with a 7” vinyl single of the legendary blues classic, “John The Revelator”.
The song was originally recorded in 1930 by Blind Willie Johnson and received bigger acclaim when recorded in an a capella version in 1965 by blues man Son House. The song later found usage in the hit TV series Sons of Anarchy. The Sword’s version was recorded in Austin, TX as part of the recording sessions for High Country.
In other news, music lesson website PlayThisRiff.com has uploaded a new video guitar lesson from The Sword. In this lesson, Kyle Shutt shows the first riff and the verse riff in the song "Buzzards”. He explains the importance of bending the last note in the riff and how the riff changes between the intro and verse.
“Check out the outtake we kept in the beginning! Pretty funny.”
Watch the new video
