"Bad Weather" - Poco - Rusty Young steel

Jeff Garden · From: Center Sandwich, New Hampshire, USA

While I'm stuck here in the 1970's Smile

here's another of my all-time favorite tunes...Paul Cotton's "Bad Weather". It's off Poco's album "From the Inside". The tab will take you up through Rusty's break which modulates to a key change at the end of it. Corrections, comments, etc always welcome. (if anyone wants the acoustic guitar intro, let me know - I'm thinking about tabbing that out as well)

Here it is on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soWQ6huD8oc

Frank Freniere · From: The First Coast

I did the break in the key of A (I think) - it allows for a nice unison sound in measures 5, 6 and 12: http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=163502&highlight=weather

Jeff Garden · From: Center Sandwich, New Hampshire, USA

Thanks, Frank, I'll check it out. I was really surprised the original recording is in Ab...I don't know if that had something to do with vocal ranges and harmonies or what. That would also be a capo job for the acoustic guitar to ring as it does. Interestingly later versions of live performances I found on youtube are in A.

Frank Freniere · From: The First Coast

My guess is they all tuned down half a step in the studio to keep the "normal" guitar voicings you'd get in the key of A, and to help with the vocals.

Jeff Garden · From: Center Sandwich, New Hampshire, USA

The ability to add that unison voicing is definitely a plus

Doug Garrick · From: Grand Junction, CO

Thanks to both of you, Jeff and Frank. Great job tabbing a great song.
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