How To Play Mississippi Queen By Mountain - Guitar Lesson - Leslie West

In this video I demonstrate how to play the song Mississippi Queen By Mountain. This is a great song that features some amazing phrasing and powerful riffs from Leslie West. I love playing this style of blues rock because is allows the guitar player to riff and and switch between major and minor pentatonic riffs. It's a blast to play and the techniques are a very useful tool to have in your toolbelt that can be applied in many styles of rock and blues. I also provide performance tips as well and cover soloing and improv. I hope you find the lesson helpful. Please subscribe!

"Mississippi Queen" appears at number 10 on a 1995 chronological list of the "50 Heaviest Riffs of All Time" by Guitar magazine editorial staff. Author Scott R. Benarde describes the song as "an enduring anthem" with a "guitar riff that sounded like a carnivore choking on dinner". The song is ranked 230th in The Top 500 Heavy Metal Songs of All Time by biographer Martin Popoff; it also appears at number 10 on the Ultimate Classic Rock 2011 list of the "Top 10 Southern Rock Songs". Spin magazine described it as "the cowbell jam to end all cowbell jams. Mountain are to the cowbell what Dostoevsky is to the Russian novel" in naming it number one on its 2004 list of the "Fifteen Greatest Cowbell Songs of All Time".

Ozzy Osbourne recorded "Mississippi Queen" for his 2005 album Under Cover, with a guest appearance by West on guitar. The song reached number 10 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart.

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