HOMESPUNTaught By Rory Block.
Level 4
Six CDs plus music and tab book
Learn to play some of the greatest Delta blues guitar solos of all time, taught in accurate detail by a contemporary master of the genre. Rory Block breaks down these fingerstyle pieces phrase-by-phrase, providing the details of how to play them with all the nuances and subtleties of the originals. At the same time, you’ll acquire the technical skills you’ll need to discover and play other classic blues tunes.
Robert Johnson is the best known of the intensely powerful musicians who created these songs in the early part of the Twentieth Century, but he was by no means the only outstanding player. You’ll also learn the sounds and styles of great artists such as Willie Moore, Tommy Johnson, Mississippi John Hurt, Willie Brown, Skip James, Blind Blake and the Reverend Robert Wilkins.
The instruction on these CDs will help you develop technical skills using standard and open tunings, treble melodies, bass runs, slides, string bends, harmonics and dynamic strumming styles. Rory also gets you started on improvisation by providing a number of variations on the intros, solos and endings of the pieces.
Here are the classic tunes you’ll soon be playing: "Old Country Rock," "Statesboro
Blues," "Big Road Blues," "Canned Heat," "Walkin’
Blues," "Cross Road Blues," "Frankie and Albert," "Future
Blues," "M&O Blues," "Police Dog Blues," "Devil
Got My Man," "Mississippi Blues," "Ain’t No Way for Me to
Get Along."
World renowned for her mastery of country blues, Rory Block
has won the W.C. Handy award for “Traditional Blues Female Artist of the Year”
in 1997 and 1998 and “Acoustic Blues Album of the Year” in 1996 & 1999. Add
to these laurels her latest award, the French “Trophees France Blues 98 -- International
Guitarist Acoustique ‘98” -- and one can see that Rory Block has become one of
the all-time highest regarded blues artists in the world. Block plays regularly to devoted, enthusiastic audiences throughout America and Europe. She’s performed and recorded with an such luminaries as Bonnie Raitt, Stevie Wonder, Mark Knopfler, Taj Mahal, Keb’ Mo, Jorma Kaukonen, the Band, Mary Chapin Carpenter and many others. She is an esteemed presence as a songwriter, having garnered not only a gold record in Europe for her album, Best Blues And Originals, but has also won three INDIE awards for “Best Adult Contemporary Album of the Year.”
She is beloved for the power and honesty of her songwriting and for the unique directness and passion of her performances.
"Rory Block has been an inspiration to me since we started out years
ago. Her guitar playing, singing and songwriting are some of the most soulful
in traditional and modern blues." Bonnie Raitt