Jackson Blues Guitar

Jackson, Mississippi attracted a host of blues musicians in the period 1910-1940. Many players from small towns made their way to Jackson, which as the capital of Mississippi and a much larger city, held forth the promise ofmoreand better work opportunities, and the possibility of making a living playing music rather than driving a mule or chopping cotton. The Jackson Blues scene was an unusually rich one, stylistically, spanning the gap from thesophisticated Pop blues of Bo Carter to the low-down blues of Rube Lacy and a host of players working between those two extremes.

Included on this DVD are transcriptions and teaching of recorded performances fromTommyJohnson, one of the fountainheads of the Mississippi blues, Itta Bena natives Rube Lacy and Ishmon Bracey, with their distinctive vocal head tones and intense playing, the great Geeshie Wiley, a woman who played and sangasstrongly as any man, Walter Vinson, guitarist and lead singer for the Mississippi Sheiks, and Bo Carter, a player with a rich chordal vocabulary and Jazzy sound. The songs presented offer a wide range of left and righthandapproaches and ways of keeping time and will expand your your ability to play blues, moving far afield from the simple alternating bass.

A detailed tab/music booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD, and containsall of the songs' lyrics as well as transcriptions of the Guitar parts. Also included are the original source recordings from which the transcriptions taught in the lesson were taken.

Titles include: Tommy Johnson:LonesomeHome Blues Walter Vinson: Overtime Blues Geeshie Wiley: Eagles On A Half Rube Lacy: Ham Hound Crave Ishmon Bracey: Four Day Blues Bo Carter: Honey