Finger picking

[Paddy de Klerk]

Anyone else have the good fortune to have been in the company of a fine finger picker? Stefan Grossman by name. Up there with the best he is.

[sheeny]

Guitar I assume?

Al.

[Regulus]

I have never seen him in concert but he was a big influence on my playing in the 1970's. The first album he made with Rory (Aurora) Block and the tablature book that it came with got me started on finger-picking and I haven't stopped since.
The first piece I leaned was Gary Davis' 'Delia' and then Dallas Rag (see below) was the first sophisticated piece I learned soon after.
Right now I am transcribing the music of Blind Boy Fuller and Big Bill Broonzy as a current project for a bit of musical fun. My ability to take that on is in large part thanks to SG's teaching efforts while the rest was down to a good friend who let me sit and watch (memorise and steal) his finger-picking rags and blues.
Have you seen this? SG from his younger days playing Dallas Rag.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMICKJQMldA

[Andy Walters]

He was one of my big influences. Great guitarist.
Andy.:)

[Paddy de Klerk]

Nice guy too.Humble achiever to boot. Speaks dearly of his early days making a nuisance of himself in the presence of legends like Rev. Gary Davis ,Mississippi John Hurt & a top dog in Son House .Influential to the blues for sure.
As a PS just taken delivery of a 'blues bible' viz "Blues Who's Who" (Sydney Sheldon ) Fits neatly on the shelf along with the others. Love the stuff i do.

[Regulus]

Have you seen Debra Devi's book: The Language of the Blues: From Alcorub to Zuzu?

She is an excellent guitarist (her band is called Devi) and she interviewed the living blues players like BB King Albert Collins etc to create a dictionary of definitions of all those slang terms that turn up in blues songs. It's worth having on the shelf too.
Her FB page or search on Amazon
https://www.facebook.com/thelanguageoftheblues?ref=ts&fref=ts

[PCH]

Trevor et al,

I only wish I had a fraction of the talent you guys probably have.

I was wondering Trevor, - do you have any Youtube vids up showing you playing any of this stuff? I'm especially interested in any SG renditions as well as older blues stuff.

Cheers buddy,

[Regulus]

Sorry Paul. No I have never bothered to Video my playing.
If you search youtube for Stefan Grossman you will find vids of him playing.
You can find lessons as well by SG and a stable of great guitarists teaching old blues (he sells them here at http://www.guitarvideos.com/ and you can pay a very reasonable price and download them)

This is the address to his Guitar Workshop site on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/user/GtrWorkShp/videos?view=0&flow=grid
And as a teaser this is him playing Tightrope
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1aUizaS19o

Hope that helps Paul. :thumbsup:

[Miaplacidus]

Isn't he coming to Sydney soon for a couple of shows?