Chords for 🎸 Boz Scaggs & Duane Allman – Recording “Loan Me A Dime” | Behind the Music History 🎙️

I love the story about Lone Me a Dime and how that was something it was almost
[Gb] like a jam or something you guys had an hour and you thought of this number you
said I think Joe Baker was singing it with Elvin or something.
That's right yeah.
And you called her up and got the lyrics.
That's right.
And [B] went in and recorded.
Yeah the sessions were over we had [A] done the album it was in
those days if you record everybody who worked at Muscle Shoals you get [F] one week.
Right.
You go in on Monday morning and you've come out on Friday night or
Saturday morning you're [G] done and we were done on Friday evening.
The [B] last phase of
recording for many people including myself where you do the horns last.
Right.
Horns come in on Wednesday night or Thursday after you've got all your
basic tracks done and background vocals are [F] done and so forth [G] and you bring the
horns in to do the sweetening and [A] we had done it.
The horns
had come down from [G] Memphis which is about an hour drive down to Muscle Shoals
and the horns were in the back loaded up everybody's putting their stuff in
the cars to drive just loading out and they're [B] done album and I think it was
Yon.
It sounds like Yon when I tell the story he says well we've got time here I
mean we're all here let's is there one more song you want to do is there one
last thing it's like well we're all here and we got time so yeah you got
anything you think of anything?
I was thinking I'd heard I was in Boston [F] one
night at a club in Cambridge and Elvin Bishop was playing and Joe Baker was his
lead [G] singer at the time and they did a [A] song by Fenton Robinson I [G] didn't know
his name at the time called Lone Me a Dime and Joe sang it.
Elvin I mean it was
just like right out of where I come from yeah the blues and [B] I don't remember
whether I've never heard well I didn't know I just heard [G] her right Joe do it
and I called Joe and I don't know whether I had her number or Elvin gave
me her number but I called Joe in San Francisco and asked what the lyrics were
she gave them to me and I said it goes like this kind of it's a minor blues and
[A] _ with that rhythm section and Dwayne Allman [B] but they didn't record live
normally with the whole section because the studio was about the size of a
double garage and there was a cloakroom and there was a bathroom and there was a
control room so everybody had to go in order to get separation with the you
know in the studio the horn players had to go back where the coke machine was
there's a little closet and they had to do the three or four horns or maybe five
horns they [Eb] crowded into the cloakroom and they [G] put me back _ some little office
_ tape room or something with a [A] microphone in it Dwayne Allman was sitting with his
amp in the [G] toilet [B] he was sitting up on the top of the toilet seat and his little
amp is right there and he's [G] crowded in there with his headphones on [A] and he's got a
great tone in there because he's got a little amp and the ambience in that room
and [G] we ran the song down _ finished it came to the end and as happens you know
as happens in the studio somebody just kind of keeps playing it was it was the
rhythm section _ just kind of started going [A] into a little lope with the going
through the changes with a little bit of a little bit of boogaloo feel that kind
of double timing it almost double timed it when you boogaloo then it went into a
kind of a shuffle then a full on four on the floor shuffle [G] and it was fine of
course Dwayne is blowing yeah and it [F] was probably 15, [G] 16, 17 minutes long and
everybody went whoa _ and now they say well now we know where it's going
now let's do it yeah and we went in again and just duplicated that procedure
so there are two takes of [Eb] Lumber Dime and I have heard the other take and it was
it [F] was not complete it was Dwayne was the main difference and the energy was a
little different [A] but anyway that was the that was it live and the horns when it
came to the end of the bit on the [Eb] end right they just start going head
arrangements like they do you're [Am] doing the clubs right _ _ [Gb] _
[G] club _ riff yeah they
graduated into as the band started cooking and the the groove start
changing they leaned into it a little [Fm] farther it played it and played and
there was no way to get out of it except just yeah fade it out because it [G] went on
and on do you still do [F] that number at all yeah I get a lot of requests for