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Lockdown Lick 224

Lockdown Lick

Lockdown Licks no. 224 “Pick up the Pieces” by The Average White Band.

Signature riffs and funk rhythm chord. Played on a Telecaster into a NUX M8 amp set to clean with slight reverb.

Pick Up the Pieces” is a 1974 song by the Average White Band from their second album, AWB. On the single, songwriting credit was given to founding member and saxophonist Roger Ball and guitarist Hamish Stuart individually and the entire band collectively. It is essentially an instrumental, apart from the song’s title being shouted at several points in the song.