‘Down The Highway’ Bob Dylan - Chords In Description (Double Drop D - Capo 5)

This is an interesting (and effective) use of double drop D.

The album’s original sleeve notes state the following:

"Down the Highway" is a distillation of Dylan's feeling about the blues. "The way I think about the blues," he says, "comes from what I learned from Big Joe Williams.

The blues is more than something to sit home and arrange. What made the real blues singers so great is that they were able to state all the problems they had; but at the same time, they were standing outside them and could look at them. And in that way, they had them beat.

What's depressing today is that many young singers are trying to get inside the blues, forgetting that those older singers used them to get outside their troubles."

*Chords*

Note that the guitar is tuned to ‘double drop D’ which just means tuning both the 6th and 1st strings down to D. Super-quick with a digital tuner.

*Main riff:*

D7 (strum with energy)
Play and pull-off 4th string/3rd fret
Play and pull-off 5th string/3rd fret
Play 6th string/3rd fret (you can bend this note slightly)
Play 6th string/3rd fret again (as above)
Play 6th string/open
Dsus2 (x-x-0-2-3-0) let strum ring

*Intro*
Main riff

*Verse*
Main riff
G (5-5-0-0-0-0 you can just hit the bass strings here)
Main riff
A7 (mini-riff: play 1st string/3rd fret pull-off to 1st string/open)
Main riff
Dsus2 (you can just hit the open bass strings here)

…and repeat :0)