Chords for Vault Sessions: Rick Holmstrom (guitarist Mavis Staples) with 1951 Fender Nocaster (S3: E14)

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Yeah, my name is Rick Holmstrom and I'm playing with Mavis Staples.
I've [Abm] been [Eb] with her [B] for a little over 11 years [Ebm] now.
_ Well, I [B] played a lot of blues coming up and I [E] toured with a lot of unknown blues people
before I got with Mavis and [Eb] I _ [B] just love, I've always had a soft spot [Db] in my heart for [B] these
telecaster, nocaster, broadcaster, whatever [Db] you want to call them.
I have a [B] 53 with me today that I played on the show, but it's [Gbm] really cool to play a [Bm] nocaster here.
[Ebm] _ [Bm] And, [Abm] _ [Gb] let me turn the [Abm] tremolo up real quick. _ _
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_ _ _ [A] _ nobody's fault but mine.
It's an old blues gospel thing that Pop Staples, Mavis' dad, used to play.
I played it a little bit in the style of Pops.
[N] _ _ _ You can just do anything on it.
I played a lot of hollow body, big Gibsons and harmonies and stuff when I was coming
up playing traditional blues.
We had an upright bass and piano and big hollow body guitars.
_ When I got with Mavis, _ because we fly so much and because we go anywhere from that old type
of blues influenced music all the way up to like _ Curtis Mayfield's soul music and rock
music mixed all together, the telecaster is just perfect.
You think Steve Cropper, _ Curtis, _ so many great players, so many styles that you can do with
it and _ it's really suited for making your own sound out of it.
If I pick up a Strat, which is a great guitar, it just sounds like a Strat all the time.
It's hard to get away from the iconic _ Jimi Hendrix's and Stevie Ray Vaughan's and Buddy
Holly's and all that played those guitars.
Telecaster, I feel a little bit more like I can get my own.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ feel like Leo [Ab] Fender got it right the first time, right at the beginning with this.
You just can't beat it.
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_ And visit the website here to [Bb] learn more about the [G] Ties for Kids program.
I love it.
Thank you and we'll see you [B] next week.
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