Cotton's Amp Settings

Snake, James Cotton's harp wrangler and chief cook and bottle washer, showed me Cotton's amp at the Weehawken concert this evening. He said he'd replaced the first pre-amp tubes with a 12AU7 and another with a 12AT7 in order to cut back on the gain and improve the amp's tone and resistance to feedback. (click image to see the knobs better)


 

 

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Playing "Help-Me" In the Style of Sonny Boy Williamson II: A step by step, note for note analysis of some of Sonny Boy's Signature Riffs