Guitar - Intermediate
SKU: MB.31008M
Perfect binding. Blues.
Book and online audio.
160 pages. Mel Bay
Publications, Inc
#31008M. Published by Mel
Bay Publications, Inc
(MB.31008M).
ISBN
9781513467016. 8.75x11.75
inches.
Blind Lemon
Jefferson was a trail
blazer, both as a singer
and guitarist, but also
as a commercial
phenomenon, for he was
the first blues musician
to establish the
tremendous appeal that
blues, as played and sung
by rural African American
folk, had for the
record-buying public. It
is no exaggeration to say
that the sales of
Lemon’s records
paved the way for a host
of other solo rural blues
musicians to record in
his wake and made the
record companies more
willing to give other
musicians a chance, in
the hopes of achieving
similar
success.Â
Lemon
’s record sales
weren’t what made
him a great musician,
though - that could only
be attributed to his
startlingly virtuosic
guitar - playing and
soulful singing,
developed over years of
busking, building on his
natural gifts with a
great deal of practice
and work. In the Guitar
of Blind Lemon Jefferson
author John Miller
presents transcriptions,
in standard notation and
tablature, of 22 of
Lemon’s greatest
performances, with an
additional essay
examining Lemon’s
senses of time and
phrasing and his picking
techniques. Also included
is a download link to all
the original
recordings.Â
To
present a picture of
Lemon the man, noted
blues researchers Alan
Governar and Kip Lornell
have contributed an essay
focusing on
Lemon’s early
life, the origins of his
music, and his time spent
in a musical partnership
with Lead Belly. Links
are provided to
downloadable performances
of the songs in the book
from which the
transcriptions were made,
so that you can have
Lemon’s sound in
your head as you learn to
play his
songs.
Blind Lemon
Jefferson was remarkable,
even in a style that
abounded in great
musicians, and some
measure of his influence
can be seen in the fact
that musicians recorded
in the 1960s, more than
thirty years after his
death, were still
covering his songs and
stealing guitar licks
from him. The Guitar of
Blind Lemon Jefferson
gives you the resources
needed to learn what was
so special about
Lemon’s music, and
to experience his musical
excellence from inside
the music
itself.
Titles
include: One Dime Blues,
Got The Blues, Dry
Southern Blues, Big Night
Blues, Rabbit Foot Blues,
Shuckin' Sugar Blues,
Where Shall I Be, Wartime
Blues, Black Horse Blues,
Prison Cell Blues, Piney
Woods Money Mama, See
That My Grave Is Kept
Clean, He Arose From The
Dead, Beggin' Back, Broke
And Hungry, Bad Luck
Blues, Matchbox Blues,
Lemon's Worried Blues,
That Crawlin' Baby Blues,
Easy Rider Blues,
Stocking Feet Blues and
Right of Way
Blues
Level 2/3
• 160 pages •
Direct download link to
audio
files.Â
