Lockdown Licks no. 373. “Tobacco Tax Blues” by Lockdown Licks.

Clean bottleneck slide riffs in open G tuning.

Played on a Stratocaster using a Dunlop tapered glass slide, into a NUX M8 amp set to “clean” with slight reverb.

The price of tobacco with 30 grams of rolling tobacco now sky high at nearly £20 over US$24 and over 90% of that being tax, inspired this short slide solo.

Smokers seem to be the scapegoats for many of our incompetent so called governments to milk us dry these days. It’s high here in the UK but not as bad as Australia where 20 cigarettes are now a sky high AUS $40 on average!