Friday, November 22, 2013

Time in a Bottle

I love Jim Croce.  I love his rough and tumble ballads of violence, ego and vice ( a la 'Bad Leroy Brown' and 'Don't Mess Around with Jim') and I even love his soft, candlelit sentimental numbers ('Operator', I Got a Name').

Time in a Bottle is probably Jim's best known tune.  The original was recorded with two fingerpicked acoustic guitars (Jim and his sideman Maury Muehleisen) and can't really be improved upon.  I arranged it for solo banjo and really enjoy playing it.

Here is the video...


And here is the tablature...

4 comments:

  1. Very nice. Thanks for sharing this.

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  2. Love it! I've been practicing hard. Can you tell me how to strike those last two high notes like you do? I can't seem to figure it out.

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