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Special Price!	At Home and Church 3 CD Collection 1962-1967 Rev. Gary Davis In 1962 I started to take guitar lessons from Rev. Gary Davis. Each weekend and school holiday I would take two trains from my home in Brooklyn up to Park Avenue in the Bronx. Rev. Davis’s home was hidden behind a worn out tenement building, down a flight of stairs where the garbage cans were kept and then up another small flight of stairs to a single dwelling that was surrounded on all four sides by apartment buildings. . . . more . . .

Special Price!	Aunt Molly's Murray Farm The Gramercy Park Sheik Stefan Grossman This CD brings together the first two solo albums I recorded. Aunt Molly’s Murray Farm was released in 1969. The Gramercy Park Sheik came out in 1970. . . . more . . .

Special Price!	Famous Fingerpicking Guitar Solos From the Golden Era of American Pop Music Ton Van Bergeyk The music on this recording represents a pinnacle in the range of fingerstyle guitar music. It contains some of the best tracks recorded by a superb musician at the exact moment of discovering his full powers of expression. The result is a feast for guitar music lovers whose tastes run to substantial fare. . . . more . . .

	Fingerpicking Delights Taught by Stefan Grossman Four original instrumentals all in standard tuning and in different keys are taught in this lesson. These are multipart compositions that should challenge the intermediate to advanced fingerstyle guitarists. Stefan has brought together blues, country and jazz ideas and themes to these solos. . . . more . . .

	Hard Luck Papa Tom Paley Tom Paley was a founding member of the New Lost City Ramblers, he shared with Mike Seeger and John Cohen the adventure of discovering the El Dorado of American country music - the wealth of songs and tunes commercially recorded in the 1920s, '30s and '40s. . . . more . . .

	Novelty Guitar Instrumentals Ton Van Bergeyk, Dick Fegy, Lasse Johansson, Tim Nicolai, Bob Evans, Tony Marcus and David Laibman This album is a collection of some of the finest guitarists playing today in the acoustic fingerpicking idiom. It was recorded over a twelve month period and in such places as England, Sweden, Canada and America. It presents a wide assortment of music from the classic rags of Joseph Lamb to Dave Laibman's arrangements of fiddle tunes to original instrumentals played by the Dutch fingerstyle wizard Ton Van Bergeyk and the Welsh two-step nylon strung hero Tim Nicolai. . . . more . . .

	The Guitar Artistry of Geoff Muldaur There are only three white blues singers and Geoff Muldaur is at least two of them." -Richard Thompson In this Guitar Artistry DVD, Geoff talks about his influences as well as his approaches to arranging music to the guitar. An intimate portrait of a great artist. . . . more . . .

Memphis Blues Guitar taught by John Miller Memphis has long been a landing place for musicians from the surrounding rural areas in Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi, and in the 1920s and 1930s, it was a wide open town with plenty of opportunities for musicians to perform their music and make a living. As a result of Memphis’ hub status, it developed a strong blues scene in the 1920s and 1930s, with a host of outstanding singers and players. Many of these musicians had successful careers as recording artists, but a surprisingly large number of similarly gifted musicians went unrecorded or only got the opportunity to record a few titles. This DVD lesson offers instruction in the music of many of the finest guitarists to record out of Memphis in the 1920s and 1930s. . . . more . . . Texas Blues Guitar taught by John Miller In this DVD lesson you’ll have an opportunity to learn from the music of the greatest of the early Country Blues singer/guitarists, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Texas sharecropper and songster Mance Lipscomb, the almost forgotten Otis Harris, ace lyricist Funny Papa Smith, the spectacular and under recorded Willie Reed, and the Post-War master Lil’ Son Jackson. This is powerful and challenging guitar music, and the technique building that will result from learning to play these songs will take your blues playing to a new level. . . . more . . . Introduction to Chord Theory & Chord Voicing (2 DVD Set) taught by John Miller In this 2-DVD set master guitarist and instructor John Miller walks you through the fundamentals of chord theory, providing you with the conceptual tools needed to understand chord structure, and then shows you how to apply that knowledge to the neck of guitar, making practical sense of the information so that you will be equipped to voice chords up and down the neck in any key. . . . more . . .

David Bromberg and his Big Band The multi-instrumentalist and musicologist has made the Count Basie Theatre a crucial pit stop in his annual tour schedule for each of the last four years ... While Bromberg may take the spotlight for an unaccompanied number or two, it’s his role as bandleader and raconteur that prompted the New York Times to brand him “electrifying.” A performance by the 12-piece David Bromberg Big Band fireballs forward like a bull in a used record shop, tracing its own musical logic — Bob Wills to Bob Dylan to Bo Diddley to Dave Dudley. . . . more . . . A Guitar Lesson With David Bromberg In this intimate DVD lesson, David presents some of his most popular arrangements. They vary from the folk blues Delia to the popular gospel song Just A Closer Walk With Thee to Bob Dylan's It Takes A Lot To Laugh It Takes a Train To Cry to Jerry Jeff Walker's Mr. Bojangles (featuring David's famous guitar solo). Nine great arrangements that will expand your repertoire as well as guitar playing skills. . . . more . . . Guitar Artistry of David Bromberg A singular performer/writer/arranger, David’s remarkable musical versatility and innovative resourcefulness have earned vast critical and popular acclaim. He is also impossible to classify: As one critic perceptively wrote, “David Bromberg fits no pigeonholes. He is part of everything contemporarily musical. He is a product of blues, country, jazz, folk, and classical music. From his early success as a guitar virtuoso, Mr. Bromberg has developed into a brilliant entertainer.” . . . more . . .

Pickin' Like Chet Chet Atkins Vintage Classics Volume One (2 DVD Set) Taught by Pat Kirtley National Fingerstyle Guitar champion Pat Kirtley has assembled a collection of favorites from Chet’s “Golden Era” -- some of the best of Chet Atkins’ vintage classic tunes -- and teaches you the secrets of how it’s done, and how to get the feel of the originals in this double DVD. . . . more . . . Pickin' Like Chet Chet Atkins Vintage Classics Volume Two (2 DVD Set) Taught by Pat Kirtley In Pat Kirtley’s second double instructional DVD on the playing of the legendary Chet Atkins he presents another six great Chet arrangments. Pat carefully dissects each tune and then puts them back together,step by step, so the student can not only learn to play each arrangement, but also gets a sense of the feel and history of each piece.. . . more . . .

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