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This companion workbook to God and Gigs: Succeed as a Musician without Sacrificing your Faith provides in-depth questions, reflective exercises and action steps that will help you strenghten your faith, improve your career and enhance your most treasured relationships. By using this workbook...

A meticulous collection of recordings, square and contra dances, fiddle contests, jam sessions and individual fiddlers. This magnificent book is meant to provide a snapshot of what American fiddlers were playing and listening to in the latter part of the 20th Century. Bowings, fingerings, and guitar...

This book contains a number of easy blues solos written for the beginning blues guitarist. Many of the solos are to be played in the first position with a few in the third and higher positions. All of the solos in this collection are presented in standard notation and tab. Students should read the...

A collection of 86 classic blues songs from the 20s through to the present day, featuring pivotal songs by the leading artists that defined the genre. All the songs have been arranged in the original keys from the actual recordings including guitar chord boxes and complete lyrics.

Get a behind-the-scenes look at what it was like for a still wet-behind-the-ears young blues drummer from Seattle to move to Chicago, where he headed straight for the ghetto and became immersed and accepted in the local blues scene. Having worked with a literal who’s who of the blues over the last four decades there are plenty of great stories to tell.

I Hear a Symphony opens new territory in the study of Motown’s legacy, arguing that the music of Motown was indelibly shaped by the ideals of Detroit’s postwar black middle class; that Motown’s creative personnel participated in an African-American tradition of dialogism in rhythm and blues...

Mit seinem Tod 1980 wurde Bon Scott endgültig zu einer Ikone des Rock, und um jene kalte Februarnacht in London, in der AC/DCs charismatischer Leadsänger in einem abgestellten Auto nach einer Sauftour sein Leben aushauchte, ranken sich unzählige Legenden. Jedes Jahr gesellen sich ein paar neue...

This in-depth blues rhythm guitar text is core curriculum of the University of Southern California's Studio Guitar Department, which is part of the prestigious Flora L. Thornton School of Music, located in Los Angeles, California. It features eighteen twelve-bar blues rhythm guitar accompaniments...

Lincoln T Beauchamp, known artistically as Chicago Beau, was raised in an environment rooted in blues, literature, law, and travel.   An unlikely circumstance provided by his Great Migration, agrarian background parents. He is a musician, writer, publisher, and adventurer. He has published several...

Blues For Piano provides twenty-nine big blues numbers specially arranged for solo piano for intermediate-advanced players. Songs are taken from legends such as Thelonious Monk and Duke Ellington, and include classics like Cry Me A River and Georgia On My Mind. An accompanying Spotify playlist...

Teach yourself authentic bluegrass fiddle with this book. The book contains clear instructions on the basics: bowing and left-hand techniques, solos, backup, personal advice on performance, and much more, as well as a complete selection of the best bluegrass songs to learn from. Written by Matt Glaser, chairman of the String Department at the Berklee College of Music in Boston since 1980.

Despite rhythm and blues culture’s undeniable role in molding, reflecting, and reshaping black cultural production, consciousness, and politics, it has yet to receive the serious scholarly examination it deserves. Destructive Desires corrects this omission by analyzing how post-Civil Rights era...

A fire in a shack where Gravy Bones recorded burnt down and it was feared the master recordings were destroyed. In 2011 the masters were found stored in the attic of a former whorehouse that Gravy Bones used to "patronize".This album is regarded as "dark" by many critics due to its topics of...

Jesus is the only one in which we may receive salvation, the only foundation laid, authorized, and ordained by God when the fullness of time had come. I ask God in the name of Jesus Christ to loose the bands of wickedness, destroy yokes, strongholds, and suffocate Satan and his devices in the name...