Sam Mitchell - Cross Road Blues (1991)

Sam Mitchell's playing is a throw back to the simpler musical life we enjoyed in the late sixties. His clean performance of the great slide tunes of the 20th Century make this CD a classic. If you play slide guitar at all, this is a must have for your collection. Stephan Grossman, the guitar educator, has devoted almost half his Slide Guitar book directly from the tunes on this CD (tab and notation both). A new Sam Mitchell album has justed been released (Oct'00) so keep you eye out for that one also.

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• robert
• johnson
• sam
• mitchell
• cross
• road
• blues
• acoustic

[Glaeken1961]

The first picture of Sam I ever saw was because of Stefan Grossman's publishing. There he sat, full of life, intense, dressed like someone who knows what sleeping rough is all about..and in his hands that steel guitar. To hear his music all these years later confirms why Kicking Mule was interested: what a wonderful, musical player, so inventive, so reverent to the tune, and being himself...inspiring.