For voice and guitar; includes transcriptions of blues recorded in 1928. Score also includes selected alternate transcriptions from recordings made by Vanguard in the early 1960s. Each song presented as melody line with chord symbols and first verse underlaid, as words printed as text, and as full accompaniment in standard notation and tablature. Accompanied by CDs (2 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.). Alfred Pub. Co.: PP1523. Mississippi John Hurt, vocals, guitar, as originally recorded by OKeh Record Company in 1928. Publisher's no.: F3176GTA (set), BN 26187 (score).
Contents:
Introduction / by Stefan Grossman -- Mississippi John Hurt / by Jas Obrecht -- Explanation of the tab/music system -- Shake that thing -- Spike driver's blues -- Casey Jones -- Got the blues, can't be satisfied -- Turner blues -- Stocktime -- Hey baby right away -- Aint' nobody but you babe -- Make me a pallet on your floor -- Nobody's dirty business -- Richlands women blues -- Louis Collins -- Blessed be the name -- Praying on the old camp grounds -- Let the mermaids flirt with me -- Corrinna, Corrinna -- Oh Mary don't you weep -- Avalon blues -- Sliding Delta -- Coffee blues -- Monday morning blues -- Candyman -- I've had all my days -- See see rider -- Stack 'O' Lee blues -- Big leg blues.
Series:
Stefan Grossman's early masters of American blues guitar
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