Digging a Well

Here is a version done on my classical guitar.  I composed a new intro for this version which I will notate here at some later date.  This track is just guitar and vocal with no overdubbing:

Here are the chords used, though I usually pick notes from these rather than strum.  

The F#m and E are full barr chords while the D is played open with notes sometime added:

Here are the notes, tablature and slowed down music for the picking pattern used throughout.  The indicated slides up and down are optional.  I usually include them now, but you will notice for this recording I do them with a quiet vocal:

Putting it all together, here are the notes, tab, chords and vocal in the key of F#m:

This tablature was created using a great freeware program:  

Musescore

Musescore is completely free with no limitations and has developed an amazing online community of musicians.  Once you have entered your tablature or sheet music, you can experiment with different sounds.  Here is one of my favorites:  Digging a Well on Trumpet:

Here is the  lone guitar and lead vocal track for the song Digging a Well as recorded for the Wetband CD of that name.  We had four people on a four track recorder, so my guitar and vocal track were mixed through my Yorkville Amp as we were recording.  This is the reason that the acoustic guitar seems so amped up and the thumb picked bass line so strong.  A lot of barr chords were used and this led to some string buzzing that gave a kind of vibraslap effect. This song is in the key of F#m (A for harmonica) and was done in the Dropped D tuning where the low E string is tuned down to D and yields some heavy duty bass:

The song rolls along grim and relentless, but was given an added spark by the background vocal and excellent guitar of Eric Dennis on the version released on the Wetband Digging a Well CD.  Ted added some great bass guitar as well.  Later on our musical friend Squeeler Jake added some amazing lead guitar: