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Lockdown Licks no. 368 ‘Phone Booth’ by Robert Cray.

Song chord rhythm and Cray style lead solo- *played on a Stratocaster.

*Using a loop station to record the chord pattern, (Am7-E7#9#5-Dm(7)-C)

* In the video I play back the loop recording to show the chord fingering & doubling rhythm

*then on the second rhythm loop , I turn the guitar up to play the solo!

*Amp? The NUX M8 with loop station direct to ‘line in’ socket,no effects. Guitar into guitar socket using “classic” tone and reverb for the solo. That E chord is AKA the Hendrix chord! “

Phone Booth is 1st song on the Bad Influence album. This was the album which put Cray on the map, prior to his explosion into the mainstream with Strong Persuader in 1986. It was his second release and his first on Hightone Records. It contained two cover versions: Johnny Guitar Watson’s “Don’t Touch Me” and Eddie Floyd’s “Got to Make a Comeback”. The most well-known song off the album is probably the funky minor-key blues song “Phone Booth”, later covered by Cray’s idol Albert King.

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