SPOILER: The intro of certain song being played in this tour

[jbaent]

 

Mark used to play the same intro for Donegan

[Pottel]

and still it has a touch of paris texas. go get the cd folks. now that is what i call slide guitar :-)

[Love Expresso]

I wish MK would play more slide guitar on his albums. The live version of "Right Now" was really awesome. That guitar is great anyway. Best thing Mike
Henderson contributed to MK's career.



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[Banjo99uk]

It sounds fantastic but it just makes me think Chris Rea has that sound cornered and should keep it. 

[jbaent]

Compared to some slide players like Sonny Landreth or Eric Sardinas (just to name two very differents) Mk slide playing is like he is learning how to do it, but doesn

[superval99]

I love it!   

[Tobben]

It

[jbaent]

The song MK covers for the Donegans gone intro is a blues classic by Blind Willie Johnson

This is a spotify link for that song http://open.spotify.com/track/2P9nh9pTK96dE0b6NBbTSs

[Best Brown Baggies]

I was listening to 'DG' on the Eugene download.
I must say it is the best version i have ever heard.
The slide intro was sublime. I'm not usually a great fan of the slide guitar, but it sounds to me like he's really been trying hard to improve. Infact at 1st, i wasn't even sure it was Mark.

Cheers   BBB

[jbaent]

I also like most of the new arrengements with flute and whistles, I hope they can have Mike during the rest of the european tour, songs like Marbletown, Border reiver or Piper to the end with fiddle and whistle at the same time would be perfect!!!!

[Jackal]

and still it has a touch of paris texas. go get the cd folks. now that is what i call slide guitar :-)

Was reminded of this when I heard Donegan recently. Mark's tune sounds like a mixture of Cooder's Paris, Texas and Feelin' Bad Blues from Crossroads:

Mark:
 

Paris, Texas:
 

Feelin Bad Blues:
 

[superval99]

From Guy:

The intro to donegan's gone is a piece called 'Dark was the Night, Cold was the ground' originally by Blind Willie Johnson and redone by Mark and I for the documentary 'Seeing in the Dark'. I love it.

[Jackal]

Cool!

 

It all comes from the same place, a troubled soul.

[JF]

Ry Cooder has never hidden that the Paris Texas main theme was influenced by Dark was the night.
The basic lick is indeed the same.
So it's natural that Mark's intro contained some analogies with Cooder's soundtrack (which contains dark was the night by the way)

[JF]

Compared to some slide players like Sonny Landreth or Eric Sardinas (just to name two very differents) Mk slide playing is like he is learning how to do it, but doesn