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Every year a new circle.... "and his dreams have lost some grandeur coming true"....

"Skylark" is a lovely song written by Hoagy Carmichael in 1941. It fits nicely under the guitar fingers in G, so I've transposed it into that key f...

A classic 1931 tune from the pen of Herman Hupfield - sung famously by Dooley Wilson in the 1942 film "Casablanca". I'm playing it here in F. The r...

Tom Feldmann kicks things off Sunday at the LumberJam Americana Music Festival with some nifty guitar work on some Muddy Water's classics.

A little song that I played a few years ago that I thought I'd record just to 'lighten the mood'.. ok wrong choice...

I'm fortunate to be a member of the Board of the United Way of Quinte. Back in Septemebr 2011 I made the rash promise that if we made our campaign ...

SOPA and PIPA are two examples of recent legislation that is lethal to the internet as we know it. The internet rose up and is on its way to succes...

This is the classic blues from 1928 by Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell, played fairly simply on solo acoustic guitar. I play it in A - twice thro...

Richard Matteson gives you the chords with an easy solo for the song, Bury Me Beneath the Willow. To read his article published in Bluegrass Now in...

In der St.-Katharinen-Kirche Kirchbarkau am 28.07.2011 im Rahmen des 12. KulturSommer im Barkauer Land.

Great song by Rev. Gary Davis from an arrangement by Stefan Grossman

My first ever post to Youtube.

I recorded a mandolin/guitar instrumental version of this as my last video of 2011. Going through the words in the sheet music afterwards, I felt I...

This tune was written in 1928 by Carroll Gibbons, an American who made his fame and fortune in England, becoming the leader of the Savoy Orpheans O...

In 1809 Nathaniel Gow printed a four-page foolscap sheet called "Largo's Fairy Dance", a suite of two tunes: The Fairies Advancing - a slow march ...

This is a fingerstyle version of the title song - music by Harry Warren - from the 1933 film "42nd Street" directed by Lloyd Bacon. I've transcribe...

Having been born on an island ie Britain, I have always held a romantasied view of early life in the vast prairies and the difficulties and determi...

1979 Martin D-45 で Hey Hey をPlay してみました。

Steve on his classic train song

Steve from a concert performance on 1st July 1982 on the song he wrote with John Prine and was a hit for David Alan Coe.

"In the squares of the city - In the shadow of the steeple

Near the relief office - I saw the people

And some are grumbling and some are wondering

...

Careless Love Blues. One of my favorite songs.

Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out (1929)

Bessie Smith (Vocal)

Ed Allen (Cornet)

Garvin Bushell (as)

Greely Walton or Arville Harris (ts)

C...

The Fats Waller classic, composed - I think - by Waller, Andy Razaf and Harry Brooks. Played here with a Big Bill Broonzy feel - what I like to cal...

This is very famous Carter Familie's tune.

I like to play this pretty tune.

Live in Italy, Sept 2005

Stefan Grossman plays "God Moves On The Water." Filmed in Sweden in 1972, this clip is from the DVD "The Guitar Artistry of Stefan Grossman." More ...

I recently recorded this Sharon Shannon tune on tenor guitar with 6-string guitar chord backing. I was so intrigued by the tune I found myself itch...

I'd been playing guitar this morning - just drifting with it and seeing what happened. Out of nowhere came the tune to Pete Seeger's "Where Have Al...

Tom Feldmann teaches Mississippi John Hurt's version of "Do Lord Remember Me." From the DVD "The Gospel Guitar of Mississippi John Hurt." More info...

Van Morrison and Lonnie Donegan, originally on "The Skiffle Sessions" album/cd.

Where would we be without the wonderful Libba Cotten? "Freight Train" - originally played left-handed by her, with the strings back to front and th...

The Prisoner's Song

Oh, I wish I had someone to love me

Someone to call me their own

Oh, I wish I had someone to live with

'Cause I'm tired of li...

the Skiffle Sessions 2000 live Belfast

Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion ~ Doc sings from the heart on "What a Friend we Have in Jesus"

Great stuff.

An instructional video on how to play Ben Bernie and Maceo Pinkard's "Sweet Georgia Brown", fingerstyle, in the key of C (inspired by the playing o...

Doc & The Dawg -- 1998

In this lesson Fred teaches you how to fingerpick the Louis Jordan version of the classic "Let The Good Times Roll." From the DVD "Beginners Finger...

In this lesson Fred teaches you how to fingerpick the Bessie Smith version of the classic "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out." From the DVD...

"Creole Belles - March and Two-Step" is a cakewalk written by composer J. Bodewalt Lampe in the year 1900. Lyrics were added to the middle section...

being a 1947 00-18 that I bought from a co-worker in 1964 for $75. It now belongs to a friend, and he sent it to me to have some much needed repai...

A tune a friend showed me from a Richard Saslow book called Ragtime Guitar.

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Denis

...everybody picks on me...

A song by the great Jimmie Rodgers.

Doc and Richard Watson singing "Milk Cow Blues"

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Doc Watson - 1991 - Blue Railroad Train.

Doc Watson and Jack Lawrence perform "Tennessee Stud." From the DVD "Legends of Flatpicking Guitar." More info at http://www.guitarvideos.com......

" Black Dog "

Chicago, 1927

The " RED HOT BLUES " (1925-1945)

Texas Alexander

Pink Anderson

Kokomo Arnold

Barbecue Bob

Scrapper Blackwell

Black Ac...

Woody Man teaches "Black Dog Blues" by Blind Blake. From the DVD "The Guitar of Blind Blake." More info at http://www.guitarvideos.com......