Lockdown Licks no. 243. “Dust My Broom” by Elmore James. Signature bottleneck slide riff, turnaround melody with pedal tone fingered riff returning to main riff. Played in ‘open E’ tuning, on a Fender Stratocaster into a NUX M8 amp set to ‘superlead’ with gain turned low, volume up. The on board amp effect is analogue delay. A Jim Dunlop full size tapered glass slide used. I first heard the song in the 1980s from ZZTOP so may, hopefully 
have a Billy Gibbons feel to my play!
The passionate blues song “Dust My Broom” has been filling dance floors and
exhilarating listeners for more than 60 years. The song’s been covered by a wide array of
performers–Robert Johnson, Howlin’ Wolf, B.B. King, The Yardbirds, Fleetwood Mac,
Johnny Winter, and ZZ Top, to name but a few–and has been adapted to piano,
accordion, acoustic guitar, and, most of all, electric guitar.
The best-known version of “Dust My Broom,” by Elmore James, begins with the world’s
most recognizable slide guitar riff. Performed with the guitar tuned to an open-D or
open-E chord, this riff delivers propulsive glides up to the guitar’s 12th fret.
Since the mid 1960s, playing this lick and the song’s subsequent solo as played by
Elmore James has been a rite of passage for up-and-coming blues guitarists. Sonically,
it’s the perfect accompaniment for the song’s lyrics.