The Guitar of Tommy Johnson. David Evans began researching Johnson’s life and music in 1964 and interviewed, recorded, and observed the performances of over a dozen musicians who knew and learned from Johnson, including his brother Mager Johnson, Babe Stovall, Roosevelt Holts, Bubba Brown, Mott Willis, Houston Stackhouse, Isaac Youngblood, Arzo Youngblood, and Boogie Bill Webb. In this lesson Evans explains the guitar style of Tommy Johnson, with its relatively simple fingering positions but complex rhythms, interpreting the songs as he learned them from Johnson’s disciples. The selections are performed in two keys of standard tuning (E and A), dropped D tuning, and Spanish (open G) tuning.
A detailed tab/music booklet is included as a PDF file on the DVD. 7 tracks and a special bonus track of Prison Bound Blues never recorded by Johnson but performed by several of his disciples and learned from them by Evans.
Tunes include:
- Big Road Blues
- Canned Heat Blues
- Maggie Campbell Blues
- Bye Bye Blues
- Lonesome Home Blues
- Slidin' Delta
- Big Fat Mama Blues
Language: English
Running time: 118 min
Quality: DVDRip
Video: H.265 720x480 29.97fps
Audio: AAC stereo 48Khz 32bit
Booklet: Yes (PDF)
Size: 2.27 Gb
The Guitar of Tommy Johnson
