Inhalt:
Perhaps more than any other state, Mississippi has long been linked with the
blues, so much so that Alan Lomax referred to it as The Land Where the Blues
Began. From the earliest days of recorded blues, and even before that,
Mississippi has always abounded with great fingerstyle blues guitarists. So
it was that Mississippi fingerstyle blues guitar was the obvious choice for
author John Millers next book, following up on his earlier releases, East
Coast Fingerstyle Blues Guitar and Texas Fingerstyle Blues Guitar. In
Mississippi Fingerstyle Blues Guitar, 1926-1959, John Miller has adopted an
approach designed to showcase a wide range of the styles of the Mississippi
blues guitarists who recorded in the period covered by the book, twenty-seven
different guitarists in all, each represented by a single song. And the songs
in the book have been selected for variety in the keys and tunings in which
the songs were played, too, with a generous helping of songs in four
different open tunings as well as songs in D, A, G, E and C in standard
tuning. And along with songs by the heavy hitters youd expect to encounter in
such a book Charlie Patton, Tommy Johnson, Son House, Skip James,
Mississippi John Hurt youll encounter pieces by more obscure, though no less
expert players, people like The Down Home Boys, Mattie Delaney, Frank Evans,
Cat-Iron, and Rosa Lee Hill. Each song in the book is preceded by a brief bio
of the person who performed it, a discussion of the song with practical
playing tips designed to help you bring the transcriptions to life, the songs
lyrics, and transcriptions presented in both standard notation and TAB. Plus
the book includes sound links to the original recorded versions of all of the
songs, so you can get the sound of the songs in your head.
1. Learning the Songs
2. Understanding the Tablature
3. THE SONGSTERS
4. Jim Jackson
5. Old Dog Blue
6. The Down Home Boys
7. Original Stack OLee Blues
8. Sam Collins
9. Graveyard Diggers Blues
10. Mississippi John Hurt
11. Blue Harvest Blues
12. LOST IN THE SANDS OF TIME
13. Bo Weavil Jackson
14. Devil And My Brown Blues
15. William Harris
16. Bull Frog Blues
17. THE HEAD TONE
18. Rube Lacy
19. Mississippi Jail House Groan
20. Ishmon Bracey
21. Suitcase Full of Blues
22. Mattie Delaney
23. Tallahatchie River Blues
24. THE HERNANDO SOUND
25. Garfield Akers
26. Dough Roller Blues
27. Joe Callicott
28. Fare Thee Well Blues
29. Robert Wilkins
30. Get Away Blues
31. THE DELTA
32. Charlie Patton
33. Pea Vine Blues
34. Tommy Johnson
35. Canned Heat Blues
36. Son House
37. The Pony Blues
38. THE BENTONIA SOUND
39. Skip James
40. Im So Glad
41. THE SOPHISTICATES
42. Bo Carter
43. Pretty Baby
44. Eugene Powell
45. Low Down
46. POWERHOUSES
47. Booker White
48. District Attorney Blues
49. Big Joe Williams
50. Meet Me Around The Corner
51. IN TRANSITION
52. Tommy McClennan
53. Whiskey Head Woman
54. Robert Petway
55. Catfish Blues
56. Arthur Big Boy Crudup
57. Mean Old Frisco Blues
58. FIELD RECORDINGS
59. Frank Evans
60. French Blues
61. Cat Iron
62. Jimmy Bell
63. Rosa Lee Hill
64. Faro
65. Fred McDowell
66. Drop Down Mama
67. AppendixDefault Chord Positions
68. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
69. GLOSSARY
70. Afterword
71. ABOUT THE AUTHOR