Dirt Road Blues - DVD

Charlie Patton considered the ?Father of the Delta Blues ? is generally recognized as the most influential blues artist active in the first decades of the twentieth century. No single individual can be credited with ?inventing? the Delta blues style but Patton was one of the first mainstream stars of the Delta blues genre. Old fashioned and modern at the same time Patton's music bridged the musical traditions of the 19th century while simultaneously creating a framework of his own that would inspire just about every other blues musician from that point on. In this double DVD lesson Tom Feldmann gives you a note-for-note detailed lookat 18 of Patton's most celebrated tunes. Making this the definitive Charlie Patton lesson. DVD One is dedicated to songs in standard tuning covering C E A and F positions. You'll learn Patton's relaxed right hand strum top tapping technique and of course his signature licks as you work through songs like Down The Dirt Road Blues and Pony Blues. DVD Two focuses in Patton's bottleneck slide and non slide numbers in Spanish (Open G) and Vestapol (Open D) turnings. Songs like Banty Rooster Blues When Your Way Get's Dark and Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues will become heavy hitters in your blues arsenal.A detailed tab/music booklet is included as a PDF file on both DVD's. In addition the original recordings of all the tunes are included.

Oak Anthology of Blues Guitar-An entirely revised edition of the classic instruction guide for guitar players. Explore traditional playing styles through transcriptions and analysis of 26 tunes by master players. Includes LP discography and new easy-to-readguitar tablature.Songs: Big Road Blues • Bird Nest Bound • Bukka's Jitterbug Swing • Bye Bye Blues • Devil Got My Woman • Dry Spell Blues • Fixin' to Die • Future Blues • Gravel RoadBlues • Green River Blue • Hard Time Killin' Floor • High Water Everywhere • Kindhearted Woman Blues • Lord I'm Going Down South • M & O Blues • Mississippi Blues • Motherless Chile Blues• My Black Mama • Ragged and Dirty • Saturday Blues • Sic 'Em Dogs on Blues • Special Rider • Stoney Pony Blues • Terraplane Blues • '34 Blue • Whiskey Head Man.

John Jackson grew up in rural Virginia listening to the older musicians around him and the blues stars whose records he heard on his family's wind-up phonograph. For a while in his youth he played at country dances but mostly he just picked the guitar and banjo for his own amusement and his tastes ranged from the Piedmont blues of Blind Blake Josh White and Blind Boy Fuller to the hillbilly yodels of Jimmie Rodgers and an old-time banjo style that reached back to the 19th century.?I can play most anything I put my mind to if I want to ? he would say with a big smile. ?Blues mountain hoedowns dance tunes... I don't get into soul or disco or rap music or nothing likethat but I ain't got anything against it; it just didn't come along when I did.?Jackson always seemed supremely relaxed and easy-going but under his friendly country manner he was an indefatigable worker. He recalled a time when musicians would walk twenty miles over dirt roads to get to a house party play till the wee hours of the morning then walk home and put in a full day on the farm and he kept numerous jobs most famously as a grave digger into his seventies. He was just as dedicated onstage an all-around entertainer who mixed his songs with jokes and stories and tried to give his audiences a sense not only of the music he loved but of the world that had produced it.That world is long gone but it lives on in the loping rhythms of Jackson's intricate guitar picking and the mellow flow of his honey-slow Virginia drawl. This is old-time back-porch country music played by a man who always seemed like he was just kicking back and enjoying himself with some friends but put all he had into every note.

Une édition entièrement revue de ce guide d'instruction classique pour les guitaristes. Explorez les styles traditionnels de jeu grâce à des transcriptions et analyses de vingt-six morceaux par les plus grands musiciens. Inclues une discographie et une nouvelle tablature facile à lire. / Guitare

James Booker III was born in New Orleans in December, 17 1939. He was classically trained on piano from the age of six, at which time his astounding talents were already evident, and he was considered a child prodigy. He found his way into the local music scene as a young teenager recording his first single, Doin' the Hambone, at fourteen. Although it failed commercially, Booker got extensive studio work as a result, including uncredited 'ghost' piano tracks for Fats Domino. Throughout high school, booker played regularly with many local and regional bands, while still maintaining an excellent academic record. After graduating, Booker hit the road with Joe Tex, and spent the next several years gigging with various bands including Earl King, Dee Clark and Huey 'Piano' Smith and the Clowns (actually replacing Huey who preferred not to tour). In 1960, Booker recorded what would be his most commercially successful song, the organ-driven instrumental 'Gonzo'. Despite reaching number 10 on the Billboard RandB charts, the single failed to spawn a successful solo career for Booker, who spent the rest of the decade backing up many obscure acts and several better-known ones, including Wilson Pickett and Aretha Franklin. In 1970, Booker was arrested on drug charges, and went to prison for several years. Upon his release, he spent some moderately successful years in New York and los Angeles. He performed and recorded with such diverse artists as Ringo Starr, T-Bone Walker, Jerry Garcia, Lionel Hampton and even Dr. John, who'd been an informal student of Booker's several years earlier. At some point during this period, he lost his left eye. There are varied stories as to how this happened: a street fight over a financial dispute, a prison brawl, or the use of a dirty syringe. Ultimately no one knows for sure. Booker retuned to New Orleans in 1975, and played a highly successful solo set at the Jazz and Heritage Festival that same year. That performance proved to be a turning point in his career, leading to a