Blues/roots Guitar Fingerpicking And Slide from the Delta to New Orleans

Steve James, a favorite performer on the contemporary acoustic blues circuit, details five pieces in different blues styles for the learning guitar student. He covers Texas and Delta-style fingerpicking, a New Orleans jazz-blues tune, and bottleneck pieces in open G and Open D tunings. Includes invaluable insights into the use of chord inversions, finding "blue" notes, use of dominant 7th, diminished chords and scales, and much more. Songs: Sugar Babe * Wet Laundry Blues * Buddy Bolden's Blues * Stack Lee's Blues * Hot Time on the Old Town Tonight. 80 minutes.James, Steve is the author of 'Blues/roots Guitar Fingerpicking And Slide from the Delta to New Orleans', published 2005 under ISBN 9781597730754 and ISBN 1597730750.