Folk

In 1988, Buster Brad Jones entered Guitar Player Magazine's International Guitar Competition with his own composition Back Porch Boogie and a rendition of Limehouse Blues. He entered on a whim, at the last minute, using a $1.50 K-Mart cassette tape and a...

This 75 minute DVD traces the career of Grossman from 1971 to 1988, during the twenty years that he lived in Europe and toured worldwide. He is seen performing with John Renbourn, Duck Baker and solo.

In this DVD David performs a wide variety of his compositions and arrangements of rags by Scott Joplin, James Scott and Joseph Lamb. He talks about his musical influences, arranging and working out fingerings for these complex pieces and how in recent...

Freight Train will be a century old in the year 2005. It's author didn't quite live to become a centenarian herself, though she did win a Grammy (Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording for Elizabeth Cotten Live) when she was 93. Both the song and it's...

Featuring Mike Seeger, Elizabeth Cotten, Alice Gerard, Tommy Jarrell, Roscoe Holcomb, Sonny Terry, Denis McGee, Wallace "Cheese" Read, Canray Fontenot, Leopold Francois, Robert Jardell, Dewey Balfa, Marc Savoy, Jody Stecher and more... Homemade American...

Two of the world's premiere acoustic guitarists join forces in this concert recorded in 1982 to define and explore the parameters of American and European Folk, Blues, Jazz and Ragtime Music. Stefan Grossman and John Renbourn, play both solo and as a duo...

Acoustic guitar sales skyrocketed in the wake of the Kingson Trio's "Tom Dooley" and a new generation fo players quickly sized up the instrument's potential. It proved to be astonishing, once the secrets of fingerstyle guitar.

This DVD reveals a world of sounds - American, Hawaiian, Indian, English - vibrant with emotional nuances conjured by featured artists from a cold piece of steel. The 14 superb performances here demonstrate the slide guitar artistry of Bob Brozman,...

From swing to jazz to bottleneck blues to folk, Grammy winning acoustic guitarist Pat Donohue plays it all with a flourish of artistry and melodic inspiration. Chet Atkins called Pat one of the greatest finger pickers in the world today. As guitarist for...

John Renbourn's unique stylistic fusion of British folk music with elements of Country Blues, Modern Jazz, Ragtime, classical and pre-Renaissance music has led to his becoming one of the foremost fingerstyle guitarists performing today. John explores all...

A multi-instrumentalist, Dom plays banjo, guitar, harmonica, fife, bones, bass drum, snare drum, and quills. As a founding member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, an African-American string band, Dom was able to explore his interest in bringing...

The seven fingerstyle guitarists you are about to watch have all put their own, highly personal stamp on the instrument, not only by the way they play, but also by the music they write and interpret, and the emotions and images their music invokes. No...