Golden Shoulders is a band from Nevada City, California. Formed in 2001 by songwriter Adam Kline, the group operates with a rotating lineup and has featured significant contributions from such notables as Joanna Newsom, who sang and played piano on the first Golden Shoulders album, Let My Burden Be, before going on to international acclaim; Todd Roper and Greg Brown (Cake, Deathray), Rich Good (the Psychedelic Furs, the Pleased), Dan Elkan (Broken Bells
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friends and Family- Golden Shoulders ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tabbed by: crazynickman Email: [email protected]
Tuning: Standard
Ok, this is my first tab so go easy. It's a fun-sounding and easy song from a great unknown band, so chances are no one sees this anyway. I didn't tab the slide part, still figuring that out. Anyway, this is just the chords. Listen to the song.
Intro:
Hit a B, then hammer on and pull off the 7th and 8th frets on the G string. For the beginning of the vocals (before the drums kick in), you can basically just slide up and down from A to B and back, hitting each chord. For the A-Bb-Bb-B part, it's the same. Listen to the record for timing and whatnot.
BABAB All my friends and my family are remarkable people, they are nothing like the ABA- creeps in this town. Bb-Bb-BABAB There is time still ahead of me, the last among equals, I am keeping both my ABA-Bb-Bb-B ears to the ground.
The slide riff plays over this, but like I said, not yet tabbed. BAE BAE
BAE There is a feeling I've been getting BAE That I have earned the town and state that I am in BAE I cannot leave, my feet will stop me from stepping BAE I'd kiss the ground but I don't know where it has been
DAE Oh no, there are reasons but I can't explain DAE Well I can but not to you. DAE Oh I'm getting better at the waiting game DAE And I don't wanna lose.
BAE BAE BAE We are the products of circumstances BAE And we reflect the sort of people we have known. BAE Whether by blood or by extended olive branches BAE All these people have determined how we've grown.
BABAB And I said very tactfully there's a mineshaft and a steeple and the otherwise ABA- indifferent middle ground. Bb-Bb-BABAB All my friends and my family are remarkable people, they are nothing like the ABA-Bb-Bb-B creeps in this town
Comments-wise, be brutal but not too brutal. This is a band that I just want to see get more recognition, so there you go.