Complete Country Blues Guitar Book

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Mel Bay Publications, Jun 29, 2015 - Music - 260 pages
This comprehensive book has 260 pages and over 50 fingerpicking guitar solos in notation and tablature in country blues, Delta blues, ragtime blues, Texas blues and bottleneck styles. An extremely comprehensive blues solo collection.Includes access to online audio.
 

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Complete Country Blues Guitar Book
Stefan Grossman
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Complete Country Blues Guitar Book
Stefan Grossman
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About the author (2015)

One simply cannot talk about people of importance to this genre without tipping the hat to the most masterful musician, teacher, musicologist, producer, folklorist and preservationist of the traditional blues. By now, Stefan Grossman is a venerated, iconoclastic and respected acoustic blues figure of mega-proportions. He came out of the vibrant Greenwich Village, New York, 1960s scene around Washington Square, where so many American folk and blues musicians launched their careers. His friend and occasional collaborator, Steve Katz, formerly of the Even Dozen Jug Band, the Blues Project and Blood, Sweat & Tears, once half-jokingly told this writer: "There we were, all these New York Jews playing the black blues." Indeed, the blues had a strong influence on young New Yorkers during the folk revival. These musicians, Stefan Grossman, Happy & Artie Traum, Danny Kalb, and many others, in turn had a powerful influence on the acceptance of the blues by the American baby boomer generation at large; and, they significantly helped to launch the folk, roots & blues revival, thereby reinvigorating the careers of many original blues musicians whose careers had waned. Many people know Stefan Grossman as the paramount teacher and entrepreneur in what has become the world's largest "blues school", Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop. He is one of the most skilled guitarists in the genre, having been a student of Rev. Gary Davis in New York City. He also picked up lessons directly from Mississippi John Hurt, Son House, Skip James, Mississippi Fred McDowell, and others.

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TitleComplete Country Blues Guitar Book
AuthorStefan Grossman
PublisherMel Bay Publications, 2015
ISBN1610658736, 9781610658737
Length260 pages
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Music / General
Music / Genres & Styles / Country & Bluegrass
Music / Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional
Music / Instruction & Study / General
Music / Printed Music / Guitar & Fretted Instruments
  
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