Danny Boy

I didn’t think of O Danny Boy as a blues song until a few weeks ago. I was playing random notes on the blues scale (pentatonic) when I accidentally played a phrase from the song. So I plucked the rest of it by ear and discovered that just about the whole thing can be played on the pentatonic scale.

Here’s a minimalist and uncommonly beautiful rendition by Sinead O'Connor. I’ll bet you can’t listen to it without shedding a tear.