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The Open D Tuning (D A D F# A D), also referred to as the Vestapol tuning, is a powerful and evocative tuning that was widely used by guitarists in the 1920s to play country blues, ballads, rags and f...

Fingerpicking blues guitar is a never ending study full of surprises and discoveries. Each key of the guitar offers new sounds and textures. A blues played in the key of C sounds world's apart from a...

Fingerpicking blues guitar is a never ending study full of surprises and discoveries. Each key of the guitar offers new sounds and textures. A blues played in the key of C sounds world's apart from a...

In this instructional DVD, Fred teaches you how to fingerpick eight all-time blues classics. Most of them come from the old school of blues performers like Memphis Minnie, Big Bill Broonzy, Mance Lips...

The blues has always been spiced with suggestive metaphors. This collection of bawdy blues songs celebrates the off-colour blues repertoire: Bessie Smith is wild about her kitchen man's turnip tops, b...

Blind Blake's recordings, made in the 1920s and 1930s, set a standard for ragtime blues Guitar virtuosity that remains unmatched. His famous 'double-thumb' right-hand technique is part of a syncopated...

In this second DVD lesson devoted to the guitar playing of Lightnin' Hopkins, Ernie Hawkins dives into Lightnin's early catalogue from the Aladdin and Gold Star record labels. There was an amazing var...

The city of St. Louis played host, in the 1920s and 1930s, to one of the most distinctive and vital blues scenes ever documented on record. Like Memphis and Atlanta, St. Louis served as a sort of magn...

As the Country Blues began to be recorded, in the mid-1920s, it soon became apparent that the music was being played and appreciated not only by African-American musicians and audiences, but by white...

The blues recorded from the late 1920's through late 1930's is certainly some of the most vibrant sounds in American music history. It seems that anyone and everyone could and would be recorded which...

In this lesson Tom Feldmann takes you to where it all began, Dockery Plantation, dubbed 'The Birthplace of the Blues', and highlights the earliest recording artists that gave Dockery its legendary sta...

The use of open tunings on the guitar to accompany singing is one of the hallmark sounds of the Country Blues. Unquestionably, the two open tunings that have been used most commonly in the Country Blu...

The Country Blues guitar duet tradition is rich and varied, but it has been relatively unexplored by present day blues players. This is a shame for a couple of reasons there are a lot of great duets t...

Music from the church always featured in the repertoires of Country Blues Guitarists. In this lesson we explore several styles of fingerpicking gospel tunes. We start with playing in the key of C and...

Rare and historical recordings from 1965-70. The musicians presented in this video are amongst the greatest exponents of slide blues guitar who ever lived and are ample testimony to the superb variety...

This DVD features rare footage depicting some of the greatest blues musicians who ever lived. Features Mississippi John Hurt, Son House, Rev. Gary Davis, Big Bill Broonzy and others.

An opportunity to explore the world of a generation of pre-war bluesmen, now long-dead, captured on film for this DVD. Rare footage of Bukka White, Sam Chatmon, Big Joe Williams, Houston Stackhouse, R...

John Lee Hooker is one of the foremost blues performers of the post war period. A Mississippi country bluesman, he has remained true to his fundamental principles throughout a professional career of m...

DVD edition of this fascinating insight into the world of the rich Piedmont ragtime/blues tradition, with extremely rare performance footage of Furry Lewis, John Jackson, Josh White, Robert Pete Willi...

The Mississippi Delta is the source of America's deep and passive blues tradition. This DVD presents the unalloyed power of these Delta legends as they performed in the 1960s and 1970s.

The Lone State boasts many cultural riches, and its gifts to the blues tradition are among its most exemplary treasures. The range of Texas blues guitar styles, both rural and urban, is captured in th...

DVD edition of this heretofore-unseen glimpse of a unique blues summit between blues masters Son House, Howlin' Wolf, Bukka White and Skip James

This video career retrospective begins with two pieces filmed for the Library of Congress in 1948, including a rendition of John Henry with Woody Guthrie. Pete Seeger appears as appreciative host to t...

Sonny Terry started playing harmonica in his teens, as a blind street musician in North Carolina. After a stint with a medicine show, he hooked up with the popular ragtime singer/guitarist Blind Boy F...

Featuring: Bob Brozman, Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Martin Simpson, Mike Auldridge & Freddie Roulette. As country singer John Anderson once said, the trouble with middle-of-the-road is 'a fella can get run ov...