Chords for Bona Jam Tracks - "Happier Times" Official Joe Bonamassa Guitar Backing Track in C Minor

Hey there guys, Joe Bonamassa here for Joe Bonamassa Jam Tracks.
Today we're talking about a song called Happier Times.
And I wrote Happier Times in a pretty low place in my life.
I was in a relationship that didn't work out in my favor,
and I had moved all the way across the country to try to make it work,
and of course it didn't end in my favor.
So I headed back to California, the sunny place for shady people,
_ and basically wrote this song because we needed to finish the album
that would be called The Ballad of John Henry.
So this one here is in C minor, not the status of all keys,
that would be D [Cm] minor, but this was C minor.
[Bb] _
[C] _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Cm] _ And the solo that you hear [N] on the album is kind of very [Eb] emotive, you know.
[D] _ [Bb] _ _
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[D] _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ [Cm] _ _
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[N] And the trick is to kind of get that really dark sound, _ emotive tone,
is you don't use the pick, you use your fingers.
And a lot of times it's my thumb that'll kind of [Gm] get that going.
[A] _ _ [Cm] _ [G] _ _
_ [Eb] _ [C] _ _ [Ebm] Almost like [B] a Mark [Em] Knopfler kind of [F] vibe, you know.
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[Bb] _ [C] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
[C] _ _ [N] A front pickup on the Les Paul or any guitar with a front pickup will work too.
And if you don't have a front pickup, you can always roll the tone off the back,
it sounds exactly the same.
So have fun with Happier Times, this is Joe Bonamassa for Joe Bonamassa Jam Tracks. _
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