John Miller – St. Louis Blues Guitar

Salepage : John Miller – St. Louis Blues Guitar

In the 1920s and 1930s, the city of St. Louis hosted one of the most vital and distinctive blues scenes on record. St. Louis was a sort of magnet, attracting musicians from the surrounding hinterlands and providing performance opportunities that were not available out in the country. Many of the St. Louis musicians, like Charley Jordan, were transplants from Mississippi. The various early influences that the music of these players displayed ended up coalescing into something that might be called the St. Louis sound.

There are recordings of the songs of Teddy Darby, where the guitar and voice track each other closely, and there are recordings of the songs of Charley Jordan, with his acrobatic thumbwork and occasionally raggy sound. The songs selected for inclusion in the lesson have been chosen to introduce you to a variety of different tunings and playing positions, and employ different right hand approaches that will expand your ability to utilize techniques like thumb lead and brush strokes.

A PDF file is included which can be printed out into a booklet that is easy to read. The original recordings from which the transcriptions were made are included.

Teddy Lawdy Worried Blues is one of the titles.