BLUES ROOTS GUITAR DVD
Fingerpicking and Slide from the Delta to New Orleans

Steve James, a favorite performer on the contemporary acoustic blues circuit, details five pieces in different blues styles for the learning guitar student. He covers Texas and Delta-style fingerpicking, a New Orleans jazz-blues tune, and bottleneck pieces in open G and Open D tunings. Includes invaluable insights into the use of chord inversions, finding ?blue? notes, use of dominant 7th, diminished chords and scales, and much more. Songs: Sugar Babe Wet Laundry Blues Buddy Bolden's Blues Stack Lee's Blues Hot Time on the Old Town Tonight. 80 minutes.