Tim O’Brien’s “The High Road” has an intriguing chord progression and a great melody. Tim recorded it as a song on his 1984 album, Hard Year Blues. Instrumental interludes featured fiddle, mandolin, and other instruments playing the melody in unison, which gave the track more of an old-time or Celtic feel than conventional solo breaks would have done. Over the years, instrumental versions of the tune such as the one Grant teaches here have been in regular rotation in bluegrass and folk jams. Grant shows you the chord progression and the A part of the melody in this first video.
