tablatures


Sur cette page figurent les tablatures de 247 chansons issues du répertoire (studio ou concert) de Will Oldham.

Ces tablatures, ainsi que les observations sur les principes de notations et le jeu de guitare de Will Oldham, sont le fruit du travail de l'Arrangeur Masqué. Un grand merci à lui !

Mais, comme le dit lui-même l'Arrangeur Masqué, "malgré toutes [ses] corrections et vérifications, des erreurs d'écoute et de frappe sont toujours possibles. De même, certaines indications musicales (par exemple, l'emploi de capo pour certains titres) ne sont pas à prendre pour paroles d'évangile. Malgré son air appliqué et sérieux, ce travail reste et demeure subjectif". Aussi, les corrections, améliorations et suggestions diverses de la part de tous les intéressés sont les bienvenues.


Classement chronologique / alphabétique

1993   1994   1995   1996   1997   1998   1999   2000   2001   2002   2003   2004   2005   2006




Principes de notations



Le système de notation adopté est celui utilisé par les anglophones :

  • A = la
  • B = si
  • C = do
  • D = ré
  • E = mi
  • F = fa
  • G = sol

L'accord tenu (ou point d'orgue) est indiqué par un _ à la suite de l'accord (ex : F_ , Am_ , etc.).

Les mesures vides (où rien n'est joué, ou bien qui ne sont que le prolongement d'un accord tenu) sont représentées par un | ... .

Les accords entre parenthèses sont de trois sortes :

  • Indication sommaire de la tonalité (souvent au début d'un morceau, pour indiquer les départs approximatifs/live des chansons).
  • Accords déduits (faute de partie de guitare reconnaissable) de la mélodie et/ou des autres instruments.
  • Accords qui ne sont joués que partiellement.


Le jeu de guitare de Will Oldham



Voici quelques indications sur le jeu de guitare de Will Oldham — indications que l'on avait supposées à l'écoute de ses disques, et que l'on a pu vérifier et corriger en examinant de près (moins de 2 mètres !) le bonhomme en concert :

  • Will Oldham, en tant que guitariste rythmique et héritier de la tradition folk, utilise très souvent un capo. Cela permet aussi d'éviter les accords barrés, pénibles pour un jeu rythmique.
  • Une autre spécificité du jeu de Will Oldham consiste, quelquefois, à se passer de médiator et à frapper et balayer les cordes avec les ongles — ce qui donne ce son si particulier (voir par exemple Old Jerusalem).
  • D'après ce que nous avons pu constater, Will Oldham n'utilise pas ou peu d'open tunings.


1993



Turkey vulture
Goat songs - 1993

Tonight will be fine
Goat songs - 1993

Pozor
Goat songs - 1993

For the Mekons et al
Hey Drag City - 1993

Idle hands are the devil's playthings
There is no-one what will take care of you - 1993

Long before
There is no-one what will take care of you - 1993

I tried to stay healthy for you
There is no-one what will take care of you - 1993

The cellar song
There is no-one what will take care of you - 1993

(I was drunk at the) pulpit
There is no-one what will take care of you - 1993

There is no-one what will take care of you
There is no-one what will take care of you - 1993

O Lord are you in need ?
There is no-one what will take care of you - 1993

Merida
There is no-one what will take care of you - 1993

King me
There is no-one what will take care of you - 1993

I had a good mother and father
There is no-one what will take care of you - 1993

Riding
There is no-one what will take care of you - 1993

O Paul
There is no-one what will take care of you - 1993

Don't I look good today
Louisville sluggers vol. 3 - 1993

Trudy dies (original 7" version)
Come in - 1993

Water (live)
Peel session - 1993



1994



You will miss me when I burn
Days in the wake - 1994

Pushkin
Days in the wake - 1994

I send my love to you
Days in the wake - 1994

Meaulnes
Days in the wake - 1994

No more workhorse blues
Days in the wake - 1994

All is grace
Days in the wake - 1994

Whither thou goest
Days in the wake - 1994

I am a cinematographer
Days in the wake - 1994

Two more days
Love is my only crime 2 - 1994

Agnes, queen of sorrow
Hope - 1994

Untitled
Hope - 1994

Winter lady
Hope - 1994

Christmastime in the mountains
Hope - 1994

All gone, all gone
Hope - 1994

Werner's last blues to blokbuster
Hope - 1994

New pony (live)
Live - 1994

Stable will (live)
Peel session - 1994

The cross (live)
Peel session - 1994



1995



More brother rides
Viva last blues - 1995

Viva ultra
Viva last blues - 1995

The brute choir
Viva last blues - 1995

The mountain low
Viva last blues - 1995

Tonight's decision (and hereafter)
Viva last blues - 1995

Work hard / play hard
Viva last blues - 1995

New partner
Viva last blues - 1995

Cat's blues
Viva last blues - 1995

We all, us three, will ride
Viva last blues - 1995

Old Jerusalem
Viva last blues - 1995

O how I enjoy the light (live)
Peel session - 1995

O street (live)
Live - 1995



1996



Stablemate
Arise therefore - 1996

A sucker's evening
Arise therefore - 1996

Arise, therefore
Arise therefore - 1996

You have cum in your hair and your dick is hanging out
Arise therefore - 1996

Kid of Harith
Arise therefore - 1996

The sun highlights the lack in each
Arise therefore - 1996

No gold digger
Arise therefore - 1996

Disorder
Arise therefore - 1996

A group of women
Arise therefore - 1996

The weaker soldier
Arise therefore - 1996

Little blue eyes (alt. version)
Sourmash : a Louisville compilation - 1996



1997



Ebb's folly
B.O.F. Dutch harbor - 1997

Ohio river boat song
Lost blues and other songs - 1997

Riding
Lost blues and other songs - 1997

Valentine's day
Lost blues and other songs - 1997

Trudy dies (alt. version)
Lost blues and other songs - 1997

Come in
Lost blues and other songs - 1997

Little blue eyes
Lost blues and other songs - 1997

Horses
Lost blues and other songs - 1997

Stable will
Lost blues and other songs - 1997

Untitled (live)
Lost blues and other songs - 1997

O how I enjoy the light
Lost blues and other songs - 1997

Marriage
Lost blues and other songs - 1997

West palm beach
Lost blues and other songs - 1997

Gulf shores
Lost blues and other songs - 1997

(End of) travelling
Lost blues and other songs - 1997

Lost blues
Lost blues and other songs - 1997

O let it be
Joya - 1997

Antagonism
Joya - 1997

New gipsy
Joya - 1997

Under what was oppression
Joya - 1997

The gator
Joya - 1997

Open your heart
Joya - 1997

Rider
Joya - 1997

Be still and know god (don't be shy)
Joya - 1997

Apocalypse, no !
Joya - 1997

I am still what I meant to be
Joya - 1997

Bolden boke boy
Joya - 1997

Idea and deed
Joya - 1997

Joya
Little joya - 1997

Always bathing in the evening
Western music - 1997

Western song for J.LL.
Western music - 1997

Jump in jump in, come in come in
Western music - 1997

In my mind
In my mind - 1997

Spotlight
In my mind - 1997

Blokbuster (live)
Felidae - 1997



1998



I am drinking again
I am drinking again - 1998

Dreaming my dreams
I am drinking again - 1998

Do what you will do
Black / rich music - 1998

The risen lord
Black / rich music - 1998

Allowance
Black / rich music - 1998

Black / rich tune
Black / rich music - 1998

Black dissimulation
Black dissimulation - 1998

No such as what I want
Black dissimulation - 1998

The sun shines down on me
Bonnie Prince Billy performs songs of Kevin Loyne - 1998

I confess
Bonnie Prince Billy performs songs of Kevin Loyne - 1998

Send in the clowns
The last place to go - 1998

What's wrong with a zoo ?
B.O.F. Quelque chose d'organique - 1998

One with the birds
Blue lotus feet - 1998

The southside of the world
Blue lotus feet - 1998

When thy song flows through me
Blue lotus feet - 1998

I am the sky
Blue lotus feet - 1998

Polestar of my life
Blue lotus feet - 1998

Door of my heart
Blue lotus feet - 1998

All babies (live)
KSUF San Francisco - 1998



1999



A minor place
I see a darkness - 1999

Nomadic revery (all around)
I see a darkness - 1999

I see a darkness
I see a darkness - 1999

Another day full of dread
I see a darkness - 1999

Death to everyone
I see a darkness - 1999

Knockturne
I see a darkness - 1999

Madeleine-Mary
I see a darkness - 1999

Song for the new breed
I see a darkness - 1999

Today I was an evil one
I see a darkness - 1999

Black
I see a darkness - 1999

Raining in darling
I see a darkness - 1999

Song for the new breed (orchestral)
Dream of a drunk black southern eagle - 1999

Watch with me
Methods of intimate plumbing - 1999

Let's start a family (blacks)
Let's start a family - 1999

A whorehouse is any house
Let's start a family - 1999

One with the birds (live)
Black session - 1999

The parting glass (live)
Black session - 1999

I send my love to you (live)
Peel session - 1999

What's wrong with a zoo ? (live)
Peel session - 1999

Crying in the chapel
Live - 1999



2000



Ode #1
Ode music - 2000

Ode #2
Ode music - 2000

Ode #4
Ode music - 2000

Song for the new breed (acoustic)
Louisvillesonicimprint vol. 1 - 2000

Drinking woman
Guarapero / Lost blues 2 - 2000

The spider's dude is often there
Guarapero / Lost blues 2 - 2000

Gezundheit
Guarapero / Lost blues 2 - 2000

Let the wires ring
Guarapero / Lost blues 2 - 2000

Big balls
Guarapero / Lost blues 2 - 2000

For the Mekons et al (live)
Guarapero / Lost blues 2 - 2000

Every mother's son
Guarapero / Lost blues 2 - 2000

No more rides
Guarapero / Lost blues 2 - 2000

Patience
Guarapero / Lost blues 2 - 2000

Take however long you want
Guarapero / Lost blues 2 - 2000

Sugarcane juice drinker
Guarapero / Lost blues 2 - 2000

Call me a liar
Guarapero / Lost blues 2 - 2000

Today I started celebrating again
At home with the groovebox - 2000

Little boy blue I
Little boy blue - 2000

Little boy blue II
Little boy blue - 2000

Blue boy
Little boy blue - 2000

Someone's sleeping
More revery - 2000

Sweeter than anything
More revery - 2000

Same love that makes me laugh makes me cry
More revery - 2000

A dream of the sea
More revery - 2000

Strange things
More revery - 2000

Just to see you smile
More revery - 2000

Fall again
All most heaven - 2000

Fall and raise it on
All most heaven - 2000

Song of most
All most heaven - 2000

Song of all
All most heaven - 2000

64
Get on jolly - 2000

66
Get on jolly - 2000

Jingle bells
Palace Records web site - 2000

Don't cry for me Argentina (live)
Live - 2000



2001



May it always be
Ease down the road - 2001

A king at night
Ease down the road - 2001

Just to see me holly home
Ease down the road - 2001

At break of day
Ease down the road - 2001

After I made love to you
Ease down the road - 2001

Ease down the road
Ease down the road - 2001

The lion lair
Ease down the road - 2001

Mrs William
Ease down the road - 2001

Sheep
Ease down the road - 2001

Grand dark feeling of emptiness
Ease down the road - 2001

Rich wife full of happiness
Ease down the road - 2001

Carolyn
Outtake from Ease down the road - 2001

Here today, gone tomorrow
Outtake from Ease down the road - 2001

II / XV
Get the fuck on jolly live - 2001

LXXXVI
Get the fuck on jolly live - 2001

LXIV
Get the fuck on jolly live - 2001

LXVI
Get the fuck on jolly live - 2001

CII
Get the fuck on jolly live - 2001

Beezle (live)
Peel session - 2001

When thy song flows through me (live)
Peel session - 2001

Down in the valley (live)
Live - 2001

I just want to have something to do (live)
Live - 2001

One last caress (live)
Live - 2001



2002



Forest time
Forest time - 2002

Early morning melody
All tomorrow's parties 2.0 - 2002

Brother warrior
Brother warrior - 2002

My donal
Amalgamated sons of rest - 2002

I will be good
Amalgamated sons of rest - 2002

Barcelona
We all, us three, will ride b/w Barcelona - 2002



2003



The way
Master and everyone - 2003

Ain't you wealthy, ain't you wise ?
Master and everyone - 2003

Master and everyone
Master and everyone - 2003

Wolf among wolves
Master and everyone - 2003

Joy and jubilee
Master and everyone - 2003

Maundering
Master and everyone - 2003

Lessons from what's poor
Master and everyone - 2003

Three questions
Master and everyone - 2003

Even if love
Master and everyone - 2003

Hard life
Master and everyone - 2003

There's something about what happens when we talk
Louisville is for lovers 2003 - 2003



2004



New partner (alt. version)
Sings greatest Palace music - 2004

Ohio river boat song (alt. version)
Sings greatest Palace music - 2004

Gulf shores (alt. version)
Sings greatest Palace music - 2004

You will miss me when I burn (alt. version)
Sings greatest Palace music - 2004

The brute choir (alt. version)
Sings greatest Palace music - 2004

Agnes, queen of sorrow (alt. version)
Sings greatest Palace music - 2004

Viva ultra (alt. version)
Sings greatest Palace music - 2004

Horses (alt. version)
Sings greatest Palace music - 2004

West palm beach (alt. version)
Sings greatest Palace music - 2004

Brokedown bounce
Pebbles and ripples - 2004

Everybody's talking about the Babylon system
Pebbles and ripples - 2004

Ruby
No more workhorse blues - 2004



2005



My home is the sea
Superwolf - 2005

Beast for thee
Superwolf - 2005

What are you ?
Superwolf - 2005

Goat and ram
Superwolf - 2005

Lift us up
Superwolf - 2005

Rudy foolish
Superwolf - 2005

Bed is for sleeping
Superwolf - 2005

Only someone running
Superwolf - 2005

Death in the sea
Superwolf - 2005

Blood embrace
Superwolf - 2005

I gave you
Superwolf - 2005

My circle
I gave you - 2005

Four screams
I gave you - 2005

Birch ballad
I gave you - 2005

Death to everyone (live)
Summer in the southeast - 2005



2006



Daniel
The brave and the bold - 2006

Calvary cross
The brave and the bold - 2006

That's pep !
The brave and the bold - 2006

Some say (I got devil)
The brave and the bold - 2006

Pancho
The brave and the bold - 2006

Thunder road
The brave and the bold - 2006

Love comes to me
The letting go - 2006

Lay and love
The letting go - 2006

The seedling
The letting go - 2006

Then the letting go
The letting go - 2006

I called you back
The letting go - 2006

Ebb tide
The letting go - 2006

Goodbye dear old stepstone
Daytrotter.com session - 2006