Blues Before Sunrise
by Leroy Carr
🎵 Blues
Difficulty
★★★☆☆
Tuning
Standard
Capo
None
Leroy Carr's 1934 melancholy blues classic in E, later recorded by Clapton and many others. The gentle fingerpicked melody captures the lonely, pre-dawn feeling perfectly, bridging piano blues to the guitar tradition.
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