for Fingerstyle Guitar-This is a colleciton of 47 favorite 19th century American songs arranged for fingerstyle guitar from Glenn Weiser's recent CD My Old Kentucky Home. Here you'll find Stephen Foster's famous compositions and other parlor songs African-American spirituals Civil War anthems familiar hymns and 1890s hits. These priceless legacies of our national heritage form much of the soundtrack of American history: ?Oh! Susanna? was on the lips of every Forty-Niner during the California Gold Rush Harriet Tubman sang ?Swing Low Sweet Chariot ? on her deathbed and Abraham Lincoln wept the first time he heard ?The Battle Hymn of the Replublic.? Nowguitarists can play these and many more in new beautiful solo arrangements.

The golden age of African fingerpicking guitar was in the 1950s and 1960s. The great players and recording artists of that time included Jean Bosco Mwenda and Losta Abelo from Zaire and George Mukabi from Kenya. Guitaristsfrom other parts of the world have rarely if ever had a chance to learn their songs and playing techniques. On this DVD their arrangements are taught by John Low who has lived worked and studied with African musicians includingthose mentioned above. There are some interesting links with American guitar styles but there are just as many differences including rhythms borrowed from traditional African music and catchy up-beat patterns. Africanfingerstyle guitar is usually accompanied by rhythms played on a bottle. John Low is accompanied on this DVD by Frans Maathuis and Keith Jackman on bottles.

Par . The musical appeal of the Blues, as they began to be heard in the early twentieth century, was so infectious that musicians with open minds and ears were drawn to it as soon as they heard it. And that appeal crossed the racial and ethnic divides that characterized American society. So it was, that even before African American guitarists were recorded playing fingerstyle blues guitar, their white neighbors had already begun learning the music?listening to, watching, and imitating the musicians whose music they so admired. And what these white musicians ended up expressing in their own playing and singing was not simply imitation, but their own reconfiguration of what their models did, played in accordance with their own senses of rhythm, phrasing and how to sing the music.In Hillbilly Fingerstyle Blues Guitar, author John Miller offers transcriptions, in tablature and standard notation, of twenty-eight pieces by these white fingerstyle blues players, taken from recordings made in the period 1926?1970. Some of the featured musicians in the book, like Sam McGee, Frank Hutchison, Maybelle Carter, Hobart Smith, and Roscoe Holcomb are pretty well known, but the tunes by more obscure players like Debs Mays, Lake Howard, or Lester McFarland certainly don?t suffer by comparison, and in many instances are spectacular. The pieces have been chosen for variety, too?you?ll encounter pieces played in C, E, and A in standard tuning, as well as songs in Open G, Open D tunings and an exotic offshoot of Open G tuning. Downloadable links to all of the original performances from which the transcriptions were made come with the book, so you can get the sound of the tunes in your head. The musicians in Hillbilly Fingerstyle Blues Guitar gravitated towards the Blues because the music spoke to them so strongly that they felt compelled to make it part of their own musical language. And they did just that. These performances are strong and worthwhile in their own right, but they?ll also show you how you can honor those who have inspired you by singing and playing in your own voice. And that?s an important lesson to learn. Includes access to online audio. / Date parution : 2021-11-03/ Recueil / Guitare

Whether Guy Davis is appearing on Late Night TV programs or nationally syndicated radio shows in front of 25 000 people at Madison Square Garden or an intimate gathering of students at a Music Camp Guy feels the instinctive desire to give each listener his 'all'. His 'all' is the Blues.Guy can tell you stories of his great-grandparents and his grandparents their days as track linemen and of their interactions with the KKK. He can also tell you that as a child raised in middle-class New York suburbs the only cotton he's personally picked is his 'BVDs' up off the floor. He's a musician composer actor director and writer. But most importantly Guy Davis is abluesman. The blues permeates every corner of Davis' creativity.Throughout his career he has dedicated himself to reviving the traditions of acoustic blues and bringing them to as many ears as possible through the material of the great blues masters African American stories and his own original songs stories and performance pieces. In 1993 he performed Off-Broadway as legendary blues player Robert Johnson in Robert Johnson: Trick the Devil. He received rave reviews and became the 1993 winner of the Blues Foundation's ?Keeping the Blues Alive Award?. Looking for more ways to combine his love of blues music and acting Davis created material for himself. He wrote In Bed with the Blues: The Adventures of Fishy Waters -- an engaging and moving one-man show. The Off-Broadway debut in 1994 received critical praise from the New York Times and the Village Voice. Of Davis' live performance one reviewer observed that his style and writing ?sound so deeply drenched in lost black traditions that you feel that they must predate him. But no they don't. He created them.?These days Davis concentrates much of his efforts on writing and performing his Blues music. He has released nine albums for Red House Records all of which have garnered rave reviews and

When Freddie King died in 1976 at the age of 42 he left us a vibrant musical legacy which includes concert performances like this one a stunning example of a blues master coming to triumphant terms with 1970's African-American grooves and 'playing funky'. Tastefully intercut with the performance audio are brief recollections by King of his career as he saw it in 1973 adding insight into the man and his music. Titles include: Big Legged Woman Ain't Nobody's Business Look On Yonder Wall Ain't No Sunshine Blues Band Shuffle Have You Ever Loved A Woman Going Down and Hide Away.

The composer says: Several musical threads led to my writing this piece of music to celebrate my friend Matanya Ophee?s (AKA MO) 80th birthday - a life lived with the guitar. Jelly Roll Morton once asserted: ?In fact, if you can't manage to put tinges of Spanish in your tunes, you will never be able to get the right seasoning; I call it, for jazz.? Over the last couple of years I moved back to Jelly Roll Morton?s city: New Orleans, home of my adolescence and reacquainted myself with the tinges of Spanish in its rich musical heritage. One of these pieces was the Mardi Gras Mambo, an iconic song frequently played during Mardi Gras and, in David Newman?s reworking of the lyrics, at the New Orleans Saints football games as the Super Bowl Mambo. Uncited sources on both Wikipedia and Essortment say the word Mambo means ?conversation with the gods? in Kikongo, the language spoken by Central African slaves taken to Cuba where it became the name for a musical form and a dance style that developed originally in Cuba in the able hands of Cachao?s (Bassist Orestes Lopez) tune: Danzon Mambo. This rhythmic style became famous in the 1950?s following its use in dance bands in Mexico and through New Orleans to the United States. The infectiousness of the New Orleans re-interpretation of the Mambo?s ostinato bass line and the reaction of people who are readily moved to dance when they hear it spoke to me of dance and celebration. This led me to choose some of this piece?s characteristics and title for this piece: Mambo for MO. As we have progressed on the instrument, some of us may have encountered the four-chord descending minor chord progression known as the Andalusian cadence: i - VII - VI - V in many different genres and guises. After all, it appears in Ray Charles? Hit the Road, Jack, the verse on Good Vibrations by The Beach Boys, Walk, Don?t Run by The Ventures, Runaway by Del Shannon and in that great work arranged and embraced by the Guitar: J.S. Bach?s Chaconne from the Partita in D minor for solo violin, BWV 1004. This bass line derived from a Latin American musical style as reinterpreted in New Orleans, a chord progression that evokes the Flamenco Music of Spain, and my impressions of the sinuous lines of people dancing the Second Line in the streets of New Orleans at Mardi Gras led me to this synthesis as a tribute to a man who has contributed so much in his lifelong efforts for the guitar, its history and lore on the occasion of his birthday! Happy Birthday, Matanya! Carlos Barrientos was born on June 25, 1954 in Tela, Honduras. He began his formal music studies at the National Music Conservatory in Guatemala City, Guatemala C.A. His training with Maestro Elias Barreiro, Director of Guitar Studies at Tulane University, was supplemented with Master Classes with Manuel Barrueco, Leo Brouwer, Juan Mercadal, Michael Newman, Tommy Tedesco and Carlos Barbosa-Lima. He studied composition under the tutelage of Dr. Jerry Sieg, University of New Orleans, and Dr. Roy Johnson, Florida State University. He consulted with Michael D. Martin, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Music, Albany State University, Albany, GA in the creation of a recordings library that reflects Western Art Music and American Jazz for the students at Albany State University. The New York Premiere of the First Movement of his Second Guitar Sonata was dedicated to and performed by Classical Guitarist Maestro Carlos Barbosa-Lima in 2003 at Carnegie Hall. At the request of U.S. Senator Bob Graham one of his compositions, Si Tu Te Vas (If You Go Away), was included on a recording to promote The Everglades Trail. In 2004, at the American Church in Paris, France the World Premiere of his Romance for Flute and Guitar was performed by the award-winning Serenade Duo, flutist Michelle LaPorte and guitarist Gerry Saulter. He has performed with such legendary musicians as Herbie Mann, Donald Byrd and Debbie Reynolds, led an on stage Renaissance Trio in a University of New Orleans production of Shakespeare?s Twelfth Night, and played incidental music for their production of Bertold Brecht?s The Good Woman of Sichuan. He has performed Carulli?s Guitar Concerto in A, Leonard Bernstein?s West Side Story and Marvin Hamlish?s A Chorus Line with the Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestra and Okaloosa-Walton Community College, Niceville, FL, and with the Southern Art Music Ensemble, a Jazz/Latin Fusion Sextet, including an Honors Convocation in Atlanta for Mr. Ted Turner. He has been a guest performer with the Albany State University Jazz Ensemble at The Fletcher Henderson Jr., Macon and Atlanta Jazz Festivals, and played the banjo in the Albany State University /Albany Symphony?s co-production of George Gershwin?s Opera Porgy and Bess.

Description Over 150 songs from across the unique and remarkable career of this master songwriter. From his roots as a folk musician, to his phenomenal success with Art Garfunkel and his subsequent inventive and collaborative solo work, Paul Simon has remained a figurehead in song craft. Each song presented here is arranged with melody line, full lyrics and chord guide. Songlist (Everything I Do) I Do It For You 7 O'clock News/Silent Night A Church Is Burning A Hazy Shade Of Winter A Most Peculiar Man A Poem On The Underground Wall A Simple Desultory Philippic Ace In The Hole Adios Hermanos All Around The World All Because Of You Allergies America American Tune April Come She Will Armistice Day At The Zoo Baby Driver Bernadette Blessed Bookends Born At The Right Time Born In Puerto Rico Bridge Over Troubled Water Can I Forgive Him Can't Run But Cars Are Cars Cecilia Cloudy Congratulations Crazy Love Vol.II Darling Lorraine Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes Duncan El Condor Pasa (If I Could) Everything Put Together Falls Apart Fakin' It Father And Daughter Fifty Ways To Leave Your Lover Flowers Never Bend With The Rainfall For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her Further To Fly God Bless The Absentee Gone At Last Graceland Gumboots Have A Good Time Hearts And Bones Hey Schoolgirl Hobo's Blues Homeless Homeward Bound How The Heart Approaches What It Yearns Hurricane Eye I Am A Rock I Know What I Know Jonah Kathy's Song Keep The Customer Satisfied Killer Wants To Go To College Killer Wants To Go To College 2 Kodachrome Late In The Evening Learn How To Fall Leaves That Are Green Let Me Live In Your City Long, Long Day Look At That Love Loves Me Like A Rock Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard Mother And Child Reunion Mrs Robinson My Little Town Night Game Nobody Oh, Marion Old Old Friends One Man's Ceiling Is Another Man's Floor One-trick Pony Overs Papa Hobo Paranoia Blues Patterns Peace Like A River Pigs, Sheep And Wolves Proof Punky's Dilemma Quality Quiet Red Rubber Ball Rene And Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After The War Richard Cory Run That Body Down Satin Summer Nights Save The Life Of My Child Scarborough Fair/Canticle Senorita With A Necklace Of Tears She Moves On Shelter Of Your Arms Shoplifting Clothes Silent Eyes Slip Slidin' Away So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright Some Folks Lives Roll Easy Something So Right Somewhere They Can't Find Me Song About The Moon Song For The Asking Sparrow Spirit Voices St Judy's Comet Still Crazy After All These Years Stranded In A Limousine Sunday Afternoon Take Me To The Mardi Gras Ten Years Tenderness That Was Your Mother That's Where I Belong That's Why God Made The Movies The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine The Boxer The Boy In The Bubble The Coast The Cool, Cool River The Dangling Conversation The Late Great Johnny Ace The Obvious Child The Only Living Boy In New York The Rhythm Of The Saints The Sound Of Silence The Teacher The Vampires Thelma Think Too Much (A) Think Too Much (B) Time Is An Ocean Trailways Bus Train In The Distance Under African Skies Virgil Was A Sunny Day Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. We've Got A Groovy Thing Going When Numbers Get Too Serious Why Don't You Write Me? You Can Call Me Al You Don't Know Where Your Interest Lies You're Kind You're The One