Country Blues Guitar: Rare Archival Recordings 1963-1971

I am very happy with this purchase. I put it on my little bedside Sony CD player, select "repeat", and let it play all night.

Great CD with many fine tunes and a PDF file with tab for some but not all songs. :(Even so plenty of good ones to learn.Happy scales to you until we jam again!

Really good selection of slide tunes to learn early Rory Block and Stefan Grossman’s playing styles. Be careful that you don’t get a bootleg or bad copy. The bad copies don’t include the tab booklet. Had to send the first one back. Glad I used Amazon vs eBay for this one.

DO NOT BUY IT FROM THIS PARTICULAR SELLER, whoever that may be. The music on this CD is great but if that's all you want, it's on Spotify and available elsewhere. I bought it because the description said it had a .pdf of the sheet music, tablature, on the disc. IT DOES NOT. Also, there is no metadata which means that this is quite possibly a bootleg. I would strongly suggest either buying it direct from Stefan Grossman's site, where I believe it is still available.I would like to return it but don't have the time to go find a Kohl's or whatever to drop it off and it's more trouble than it's worth. This is absolutely NOT what it says it is. I am pretty disappointed and feel somewhat cheated because I really wanted to have the songs and the tab to learn and play along and now I have to buy it again somewhere else.

This illustrates the wonderful talent of this gifted musician. Her voice and guitar playing shows the future promise that we now know was completely fulfilled.

This is a rare opportunity to hear young Rory Block, and hear her talent at a young age as she plays the older country blues. Rory Block is today's Guitar Queen of the blues. She plays with the heart of the Delta in her soul.

The CD I purchased doesn't have PDF. I was so disappointed.

A very nice collection of music. Reminds me of days spent in Washington Square back in the day.

The core of this album is "How to Play Blues Guitar" by Stefan Grossman and Rory Block (Sunshine Kate) , an "LP" which was released in the 1970's and has attained legendary status (amongst us old fogies) as instructional country blues guitar. The novel (at the time) addition of tablature for the tracks on the LP is also on the cd. Fourteen additional tracks by Grossman and Block are also on the cd. The packaging and accompanying information are, as is usual with Stefan Grossman, excellent.This makes a perfect companion to "How to Play Ragtime Guitar" by Stefan Grossman and Ton Van Bergeyk now also available on cd for the first time.

Quick delivery and fair price.

Pour ceux qui aiment le blues, country blues, picking etc dans le style traditionnel, et qui plus est voudraient s'y essayer à la guitare, ce cd (32 chansons en tout) est une aubaine! D'un côté il reprend l'intégralité du fameux vinyl "How to play blues guitar" sorti en 1964 (avec les "tablatures" permettant à tout guitariste en herbe d'étudier les morceaux proposés) - Ce livret de tablatures est (très heureusement) présent dans cette édition cd sous forme d'un fichier PDF sur le cd même- rien que pour cela ce cd vaut le coup car le vinyl "How to play blues guitar" même s'il peut se trouver çà et là en occasion sur internet n'est quasiment jamais accompagné de ces fameuse tablatures, et la réédition cd tel quel de ce vinyl n'existe apparemment pas (https://www.amazon.fr/Stefan-Grossman-Rory-Block-Guitar/dp/B00L81EWOK/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&qid=1462890015&sr=8-13&keywords=How+to+play+blues+guitar+stefan+grossman) . En bonus 14 chansons dans le même style sont présentes sur le cd (pas de tablatures par contre pour ces chansons). Acheté chez le vendeur "Musique pour vous" pour moins de 14 euros, ce cd devrait ravir les amateurs du genre.

There have been a couple of excellent releases in this Stefan Grossman series. When Stefan visited England in the 1970s, there were already some fine British Blues musicians and bands on the scene - to mention just a couple that I personally knew, Jo Ann and Dave Kelly, Tony McPhee, and so on- and Grossman was so impressed by Jo Ann Kelly that he actually asked her to record with him. Unfortunately, compared with the other discs, the "Country Blues Guitar" album, recorded between 1963 and 1971, is, like the proverbial parson's egg, only excellent in parts. If, like me, you can still vividly remember the shock and excitement of hearing the original Skip James' brilliant and eerie "I'm so Glad", then I'm afraid you can only be disappointed with Rory Block's rather anaemic version. The same applies to her "Walking Blues". Several white musicians have made very credible copies of R.Johnson's classic Delta Blues, but in my personal opinion, Ms Block cannot be numbered among them. Listen, on this CD, to the tracks by Son House (who strongly influenced Johnson) to hear how the Blues should really be played and sung. Another potential drawback for people considering purchasing this CD is that tracks 15 to 32 (more than half the total tracks) are from the original "How To Play Blues Guitar" record. If you want to learn these songs, the CD plus the accompanying PDF file (which you can download free) will be of interest. Otherwise, you may think it a waste of money to have 16 tracks which are designed as samples and all less than two minutes long. Overall, if you don't mind spending your money for just the remaining 14 tracks, then there IS some very good guitar on here.