Lone Cone Library

A step by step method for learning this rich and powerful style. Graded exercises take you from the fundamentals of fingerpicking to five authentic blues tunes. Each technique is carefully explained and illustrated in the book. All music is presented in both standard notation and tablature. (cassette lost)

To escape an abusive master, a junkyard dog named Flats runs away and makes a name for himself from Mississippi to New York City playing blues on his guitar.

Clayton feels most alive when he's with his grandfather, Cool Papa Byrd, and the band of Bluesmen - he can't wait to join them, just as soon as he has a blues song of his own. But then the unthinkable happens. Cool Papa Byrd dies, and Clayton's mother forbids Clayton from playing the blues. And Clayton knows that's no way to live. Armed with his grandfather's brown porkpie hat and his harmonica, he runs away from home in search of the Bluesmen, hoping...

The African experience in America is brought to life in a poem that uses a call and response singing form common to the blues.

"Descriptive analysis and musical transcriptions, in standard notation and tablature" of the works of various blues guitarists.

Lyrical text explores how Blues have been part of everyday life throughout history, from its origins in the sounds of the earth, through slaves' voices singing of freedom, to today's greatest performers--and listeners

The Blues brothers: After the release of Jake Blues from prison, he and brother Elwood take their blues band back on the road in an attempt to raise money for the orphanage where they were raised. Havoc ensues as the brothers seek redemption on their "mission from God." Blues brothers 2000: 18 years after the Brother's original "mission to God," Elwood Blues gets out of prison and discovers that much has changed in the time he's been away. His partner,...