We begin a multiweek feature all about fingerstyle guitar. This week we focus on some of the finest blues players. We’ll hear classic tunes fro Elizabeth Cotten, Charlie Patton, Blind Willie Johnson and many more. We’ll also present contemporary players who took their inspiration from these masters from the past including Rory Block, Scott Ainslie, Paul Geremia and others. Fingerstyle Guitar with the emphasis on the Blues on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.

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Artist / “Title” / CD / Label

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways
Elizabeth Cotten / “Buck Dance” / Shake Sugaree / Smithsonian Folkways
Blind Willie McTell / “Bell Street Lightnin’” / Roots and Blues / Columbia
Charlie Patton / “Down the Dirt Road Blues” / Best of Charlie Poole / Yazoo
Blind Willie Johnson / “Keep Your Light Trimmed and Burning” / Praise God I’m Satisfied / Yazoo
Robert Johnson / “Terraplane Blues” / The Complete Robert Johnson / Columbia

Son House / “Walking Blues” / Complete Library of Congress Recordings / Travelin’ Man
Mississippi John Hurt / “Avalon Blues” / DC Blues / Fuel
Rev. Gary Davis / “If I Had My Way” / If I Had My Way / Smithsonian Folkways
Big Bill Broonzy / “Long Tall Mama” / The Young Big Bill Broonzy / Yazoo
Elizabeth Cotten / “Take Me Back to Baltimore” / Shake Sugaree / Smithsonian Folkways

Rory Block / “Candy Man” / Avalon / Stony Plain
Ry Cooder / “Diddy Wah Diddy” / Paradise & Lunch / Reprise
Scott Ainslie / “Love in Vain” / The Last Shot got Him” / Cattail

Thomas Schleiken / “Louis Collins” / Echoes / Blind Lemon
Paul Geremia / “Death Don’t Have No Mercy” / Love My Stuff / Red House
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways