CK - Blues 1

Fingerstyle guitar is one of the most popular and satisfying ways of playing. Use the thumb and fingers to open up the range of sounds that the guitar can produce, and you're really flying. This is ……続きを見る

Founded in 1917, Paramount Records incongruously was one of several homegrown record labels of a Wisconsin chair-making company. The company pinned no outsized hopes on Paramount. Its founders knew ……続きを見る

Critics have long suggested that August Wilson, who called blues "the best literature we have as black Americans," appropriated blues music for his plays. After August insists instead that Wilson’s ……続きを見る

This collection of jazz etudes with accompanying online audio gives students a fun and effective way to learn to play jazz style blues lines. The audio tracks provide a professional rhythm section (……続きを見る

Blues Keyboard Method, Level 1, within the School of the Blues Lesson Series, is an exciting journey into blues piano and organ for the novice player. Book contains: Review of piano and theory basic……続きを見る

In Cleveland, 1969, a young white teenage blues enthusiast, at work at a summer factory job in the polluted Cuyahoga River Valley, meets a fellow shop floor worker named Fred Davis--who turns out to……続きを見る

Feel Like Going Home vividly brings to life such early blues masters as Muddy Waters , Skip James, and Howlin' Wolf, along with illuminating excursions into the blues-based rock 'n' roll of Jerry Le……続きを見る

NAMED A 2025 KANSAS NOTABLE BOOK BY THE STATE LIBRARY OF KANSAS In conversations on regional blues, the traditions of the Mississippi Delta, the Carolina Piedmont, Chicago, Houston, Memphis, New Orl……続きを見る

"Finally, the biography that Rev. Davis deserves. Ian Zack takes 'Blind Gary' out of the footnotes and into the footlights of the history of American music." ーSteve Katz, cofounder of Blood, Sweat ……続きを見る

Best Blues Book of the Year, Living Blues Readers' Poll: "A fascinating look at one of the great independent record labels, and producers, of our time." ー Library Journal It started with the searin……続きを見る

From the coffeehouses of Greenwich Village to the stage of Woodstock, folksingers became a powerful cultural force in the 1960s, Mixing music and politics, tradition and innovation, romance and righ……続きを見る

Essays on Aretha Franklin, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Leonard Cohen, Buddy Guy, Mavis Staples, Patti Smith A Financial Times Book of the Year 2023 The greatest popular songs, whet……続きを見る

I'm Just Dead, I'm Not Gone chronicles Jim Dickinson's extraordinary life in the Memphis music scene of the fifties and sixties and how he went on to play with and produce a rich array of artists, i……続きを見る

This is the most important instruction guide to blues style piano playing in print. It covers all styles of playing from 1900 to the present day and includes transcriptions of the recordings of twen……続きを見る

**NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' PICK OF 2023 The drama of In Cold Blood meets the stylings of a Coen brothers film in this long-lost manuscript from musicologist Robert “Mack” McCormick, whose research on……続きを見る

This book presents clawhammer banjo tablatures from the recording Dick Kimmel - Fishin' Creek Blues (Copper Creek Records). The tablatures have been transcribed by Dick Kimmel directly from his play……続きを見る

Rob MacKillop presents 20 wonderful fingerstyle blues arrangements and compositions in DADGAD tuning. The styles covered in this book include country blues, boogie woogie left-hand piano blues, earl……続きを見る

The story of bluesman Robert Johnson and his deal with The Devil at the crossroads is one of the core myths at the heart of both blues and rock 'n' roll. In A Meeting At The Crossroads, Matt Frederi……続きを見る

The prevailing discourse surrounding urban music education suggests the deficit-laden notion that urban school settings are "less than," rather than "different than," their counterparts. Through the……続きを見る

Bust into the chords that form the basis of great blues playing. You will learn the essentials of blues chord playing through eight different styles which include Traditional Shuffles, R & B, Delta,……続きを見る

Blues Keyboard Method Level 2, within the School of the Bluesr Lesson Series, is an exciting journey into Blues piano and organ for the intermediate player. Book contains: music theory relative to t……続きを見る

The women who broke the rules, creating their own legacy of how to live and sing the blues. An exciting lineage of women singersーoriginating with Ma Rainey and her protégée Bessie Smithーshaped the……続きを見る

One of the strangest, most obscure, and intriguing stories from the last century of American music is that of Emmett Miller. He helped define the popular music of the last 75 years, and for the most……続きを見る

Winner of the 2020 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Photography Outside of Merigold, Mississippi, off an unmarked dirt road, stands Po’ Monkey’s, perhaps the most famous house in ……続きを見る

This book teaches fingerstyle blues from the ground up. Concepts such as right-hand independence are taught so that bass lines and melody may be played at the same time while utilizing simple chord ……続きを見る

By the bestselling author of Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock ‘n’ Roll and Last Train the Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley, this dazzling new book of profiles is a culmination of Peter Gura……続きを見る

Written with the young beginner in mind, this book presents the basics of blues guitar. Any beginner can play the blues using the concepts and etudes presented in standard notation and tab. Comes wi……続きを見る

A sparkling collection of 12 classic American blues songs arranged for solo fingerstyle guitar. All arrangements are in notation and tablature and convey the exciting yet earthy moods found in this ……続きを見る

A collection of 12 great acoustic blues guitar solos by Duck Baker in notation and tablature. The solos are intermediate to advanced in difficulty and successfully capture the earthy myriad of influ……続きを見る

Ragtime music has a character all its own. While it lends itself ideally to a variety of settings and moods, it always maintains its unique joyful feeling. The banjo is an instrument ideally suited ……続きを見る