Blind Boy Fuller

Blind Boy Fuller recorded his unique brand of country blues from 1935 to 1940. His playing is chock-full of both wit and soulfulness. His guitar arrangements are strikingly original and make perfect use of the sound of theNational Steel guitar which he used on the majority of his recordings. He is best known for his classic tune Truckin’ My Blues Away a standard that has been recorded and performed by generations of blues and rockguitarists. This DVD gives a fully-detailed presentation of Blind Boy Fuller’s intricate guitar work on six of his best and best-known recordings.

The East Coast, from Florida up to Virginia, gave birth to a vibrant fingerstyle blues tradition, documented on recordings from the mid-1920s up into the 1970s and 1980s. In East Coast Fingerstyle Blues Guitar, author John Miller has selected some of the most interesting and exciting recorded performances from that period to present to you, with transcriptions of the performances in TAB and standard notation, lyrics to the songs provided, playing tips that will help you get the songs up and running as soon as possible, and links to the original recorded performances, so that your own playing can be informed by the playing of the masters.A particular focus of the book is the repertoire of three of the strongest practitioners of East Coast Blues?Buddy Moss, Blind Willie McTell and Blind Boy Fuller. You?ll also find two songs each by Luke Jordan and William Moore, a Blind Blake tune and a host of songs from artists who qualify for the designation talent deserving of wider recognition: Peg Leg Howell, Carl Martin, Floyd Council, Virgil Childers, Sonny Jones, Gabriel Brown, Ralph Willis, Willie Trice and Henry Johnson, many of whose songs are being made available for the first time.If you?re looking for fingerstyle guitar pieces with a great range of feeling, musical variety and depth of expression, you need look no further than East Coast Fingertyle Blues Guitar. It will give you the information and background you need for a total immersion in this exciting music. Includes access to online audio.

And Novelty Instrumentals Of Rev. Gary Davis-Rev. Gary Davis is the real thing. The authentic blind-seer. He is a genius with a brightly burning spirit enormous musical intelligence technical brilliance an encyclopaedic memory driving passion deep faith araunchy and gracious sense of humour. A mystic. He is an icon of the style of Guitar he was born into known today as the Piedmont blues. Through players of the first half of the twentieth century like Alfred Shultz Mose Ranger Merle Travis and Chet Atkins this is the signature American fingerpicking style that would so deeply inform the country folk blues and even rock and roll of our day.Rev. Davis (1896-1972) was born black indeep poverty in South Carolina blind from an early age. He overcame these longest of odds to become world famous a giant of American music. He brought together black and white styles country gospel folk themes blues jazz ragtime minstrel songs dance tunes and popular song. He developed his own brilliant fingerpicking style that was deep economical and adaptable enough to easily cover all these genres. Supporting all his creativity was anunshakable faith that pulled him through the obscurity the bitter hard times and crushing poverty he would endure until the folk music awakening of the fifties and sixties caught up to him.In this book and accompanyingaudio Ernie Hawkins has transcribed 9 of Rev. Davis' best known rags minstrel shows tunes and novelty instrumentals. These are challenging and very rewarding to master. Included are: Buck Dance Devil's Dream Sally Where'd You Get Your Liquor From Fast Foxtrot St. Louis Tickle Darktown Strutter's Ball and his tour de forces Twelve Sticks and SoldiersMarch. The unique bottleneck/slide tune Whistlin' Blues is also presented played in an open D6 tuning.The playing of Rev. Davis has influenced generations of guitar players from Blind Boy Fuller to

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A three volume DVD collection taught by Stefan Grossman.In this three lesson DVD series Stefan Grossman explores the world of country blues guitar. It is a fascinating and challenging study that covers blues folk and ragtimearrangements in the keys of A C D E and G. Each tune is discussed and taught phrase by phrase and played split screen so that you can clearly see what each hand is doing.You will learn about the playing styles and techniquesof legendary blues guitarists as Rev. Gary Davis Frank Stokes Blind Blake Blind Boy Fuller Mance Lipscomb Lightnin' Hopkins Mississippi John Hurt Willie Brown Robert Johnson Sam McGee Lonnie Johnson and ElizabethCotten.A detailed 56 page PDF is included with this collection.

Masterpieces of Country Blues Guitar comes from the playing of Blind Blake Bo Carter Scrapper Blackwell Rev. Gary Davis Blind Boy Fuller Tommy Johnson Big Bill Broonzy and Josh White. Taught by WoodyMann this series of lessons presents the music from a wide variety of blues greats and is an excellent series to discover various country blues styles and techniques. For intermediate to advanced students. As part ofStefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop Audio Series not only does this book contain valuable lessons but as an added bonus the three accompanying CDs also contain three full hours of instruction featuring note-by-note phrase-by-phrase instruction. The 32-page booklet is written in both standard notation and tablature.

Woody Mann's Fingerstyle Blues Guitar illustrates how traditional country blues guitar techniques and styles can be extended and explored to create new textures and feelings. Woody demonstrates blues in the keys of A D and E and shows how variations and improvisational ideas can be developed. The playing ideas of Blind Boy Fuller Big Bill Broonzy Lonnie Johnson Blind Lemon Jefferson Rev. Gary Davis and Scrapper Blackwell as well as otherblues ledgends are discussed.Woody combines these playing techniques and styles into a series of instrumentals that will illustrate new possibilities for playing fingerstyle blues. A 24 page PDF tab/music booklet is included.