HOMESPUNTaught By Rory Block.
Level 4
CD plus 32-page music + tab book
W.C. Handy award-winner Rory Block is one of the most knowledgeable and talented exponents of Delta blues styles, and here she teaches the authentic techniques of the original blues masters -- the tunings, the right-hand pounding, the string bending, the complex fingerpicking, the syncopation -- breaking down and then performing her instrumental and vocal versions of eight timeless fingerstyle pieces in accurate detail.
As Rory plays through each piece she slows down the more difficult passages, highlighting the subtleties of each tune. You'll learn regular and open tunings, treble melodies, bass runs, slides, harmonics, strumming styles and a variety of intros, solos and endings.
You'll add these classic blues tunes to your repertoire: "Old Country Rock" (Willie Moore), "Statesboro Blues" (Blind Willie McTell), "Big Road Blues" (Tommy Johnson), "Canned Heat" (Tommy Johnson), "Future Blues" (Willie Brown), "Devil Got My Man" (Skip James), "Police Dog Blues" (Blind Blake), "Mississippi Blues" (Willie Brown).
*Edited version of the six-cd series, "Classics
Of Country Blues Guitar.
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