Fingerstyle guitar is one of the most personal of styles and we’ll hear some great players the next two weeks. A couple of recordings served as inspiration for these episodes of The Sing Out! Radio Magazine. Awhile back, Tompkins Square released a collection of demos and outtakes from the great guitarist Duck Baker on a recording called Les Blues Du Richmond, with a wide variety of tunes in many styles. Craft Records has a collection called The Thousand Incarnations of the Rose, featuring guitar and banjo from some great American primitive guitarists and banjo players including John Fahey, Robbie Basho and Peter Lang. We’ll focus this recording next week. Fingerstyle guitar … this week and next on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.

LISTEN:

Artist/”Song”/CD/Label

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” (excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian
              Folkways
Duck Baker / “Maple Leaf Rag” / Les Blues Du Richmond / Tompkins Square
Bruce Molsky / “The Brass Band Ruchenitsa” / Soon Be Time / Compass
Lauren Sheehan / “Weepin’ Willow Blues” / Some Old Lonesome Day / Wilson River
Ryley Walker / “Primrose Green” / Primrose Green / Dead Oceans

Blind Blake / “Wabash Rag” / Guitar Wizards 1926-1935 / Yazoo
Bruce Cockburn / “3 Al Purdys’” / Bone On Bone / True North
Chris Smither / “Maybelline” / Call Me Lucky / Signature Sounds
Duck Baker / “Homage to Leadbelly” / Les Blues Du Richmond / Tompkins Square

Mitch Greenhill & Mayne Smith / “Evolution of Blind Joe Turtle” / Friends of Fahey Tribute
               / Slacktone Records
Joan Baez / “The Lily of the West” / Vol.2 / Vanguard /John Renbourn / “Three Pieces by O’Carolan” / The Hermit / Transatlantic
Guy Van Duser / “Alligator Crawl” / Stride Guitar / Rounder

Rory Block / “Need a Little Sugar in my Bowl” / A Woman’s Soul / Stony Plain
Ry Cooder / “Coming in on a Wing and a Prayer” / Boomer’s Story / Reprise
Wayne Henderson / “Cannonball Blues” / Rugby Guitar / Flying Fish
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” (excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian
              Folkways