A fascinating bio and the best songs from the Singing Brakeman including: Blue Yodel No. 1 (T for Texas) - The Brakeman's Blues - Hobo's Meditation - I'm Free from the Chain Gang Now - I'm Lonely and Blue - In the Jailhouse Now - Jimmie Rodgers' Last Blue Yodel - Memphis Yodel - My Blue Eyed Jane - My Good Gal's Gone Blues - My Rough and Rowdy Ways - Mystery of Number Five - Pistol Packin' Papa -…

How America's Original Roots Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a Century

John Jackson grew up in rural Virginia listening to the older musicians around him and the blues stars whose records he heard on his family's wind-up phonograph. For a while in his youth he played at country dances but mostly he just picked the guitar and banjo for his own amusement and his tastes ranged from the Piedmont blues of Blind Blake Josh White and Blind Boy Fuller to the hillbilly y…

Songs, Stories And History. Par WAYNE ERBSEN. Plus récent livre de Wayne Erbsen jette un regard profond sur la musique bluegrass pour découvrir ses vraies racines : ballades des premiers pionniers, écossais-irlandais fiddle tunes, spirituals noirs, mélodies de plantations, blues, meurtre ballades, chansons sentimentales parlor de styles de banjo Tin Pan Alley, en Caroline du Nord et Gospels. Le li…

An Anthology Of Western Swing-Western swing represents an explosive melting pot of styles and genres the result of which is unyieldingly listenable danceable and unique.Western music West Texas fiddle tunes Dixieland and New Orleans Jazz Big Band swing urban and rural blues Tin Pan Alley pop Spanish music Jimmie Rodgers songs polkas and much more...these together form the Western Swing s…

Explore how the traditional parlor style guitar backups used during the golden age of the Old Time Music string band performance style were further developed by guitarists during the Depression years of the 1930s.The genesis of those developments lies principally in the techniques popularized by the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers on their recordings that featured the use of the flat pick instead…

Learn fun rock and country solos to supplement your piano lessons! Rock and Country Masters for Piano is a wonderful supplement to the student-level piano repertoire. It introduces you to colorful, fun-to-play pieces in a variety of rock and country styles. Take a guided tour through the important styles of the rock and country masters. You'll learn how they get their unique sound---while progress…

Performed by Jimmie Rodgers. For voice and guitar. Format: fake book. With vocal melody, lyrics, chord names and introductory text. Traditional country. Series: Hal Leonard Fake Books. 64 pages. 9x12 inches. Published by Hal Leonard.

Performed by Jimmie Rodgers. Guitar Recorded Versions (Authentic note-for-note transcriptions). With notes and tablature. Size 9x12 inches. 112 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.

By Elton John and Leon Russell. Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook. Softcover. 88 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

Guitar. Softcover Audio Online. With guitar tablature. 80 pages. Published by Centerstream Publications

(Acoustic Guitar Private Lessons). Guitar Educational. Softcover with CD. Guitar tablature. 64 pages. Published by String Letter Publishing

A Crash Course into Bluegrass and Flatpicking Guitar Styles. By Joe Carr. For Guitar (Flatpicking/Plectrum). method. Bluegrass. Level: Beginning-Intermediate. Book/CD Set. Size 8.75x11.75. 96 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc.

SKU: HL.142754

A Scrapbook of Treasures from the World's Foremost Acoustic Guitar Maker. Book. Guitar Reference. Hardcover. 104 pages. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.142754).

ISBN 9781495013041. UPC: 888680050450. 12.0x9.0x1.121 inches.

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