Blue Eyes Crying In The Rainby Willie Nelson

Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain is song written by songwriter Fred Rose. It was first recorded in 1946 and has been covered by many artists ever since.

This lesson is based on Willie Nelson's version, which appears on his 1975 album 'Red Headed Stranger'. 

We take a look at the chords in the key of E, the strumming with swing feel and alternating bass notes, the little ascending and descending bass lines, and break down the progression. 

At the end of Nelson's guitar solo he plays a couple of fast moving jazzy chords for two measures while changing his flatpicking to straight feel. This is probably the challenging part for some guitar players. We take at a look at a few examples as how he does it.