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On this instructional DVD, blues guitarist and teacher Woody Mann reaches back to the early 20th century to discuss the techniques of blues masters like Robert Johnson, Son House, and Charley Patton. Mann works through five different songs, explaining tunings, fingerpicking, syncopation, and percussive right-hand work. The disc is appropriate for beginners and intermediate players, and is useful for any budding guitarist with an interest in roots music.

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Accomplished instructor Woody Mann shares some of his many helpful, practical tips with beginning and intermediate viewers in this fun and accessible program.

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With a new introduction by Woody Mann Jazz and blues guitarist Woody Mann learned from the legendary Rev. Gary Davis and then played and recorded with Son House, Bukka White and John Fahey. He has performed throughout the world, recorded over a dozen...

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With a new introduction by Woody Mann Jazz and blues guitarist Woody Mann learned from the legendary Rev. Gary Davis and then played and recorded with Son House, Bukka White and John Fahey. He has performed throughout the world, recorded over a dozen...

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GO FURTHER is a documentary that charts the progress of an environmental activism bus tour from Seattle to Santa Barbara, led by actor Woody Harrelson. In a biofuel bus burning hempseed oil as gas, painted with scenic and symbolic murals depicting the tour's goals, Harrelson and his crew of eclectic environmentalists--a yoga instructor, a raw foods chef, an organic living neophyte--set out to educate people about Simple Organic Living (SOL), calling their trek the SOL Tour. While some of the SOL Tour's participants ride in the bus, others bike alongside it. Stopping in various cities, Harrelson lectures about how, in the United States, the environment is being severely neglected with paper companies clear-cutting forests, farmers spraying their crops with harmful pesticides, dairies drugging their cows with growth hormones, and pollution from gasoline putting one fifth of all mammals at risk of extinction. The SOL Tour is Harrelson's plea for change. He is asking the public to be aware of these issues, to demand safer alternatives such as paper made from non-wood sources like hemp, and to eat an organic vegetarian diet that will require farmers to produce safer food. While the mission of the SOL Tour is very serious, its participants are fun, carefree, happy people who are openminded and anxious to spread the word. The tone of GO FURTHER is optimistic and about feeling good, with colorful animated sequences breaking the film into several distinct chapters. Also dividing up the action are music-video-style appearances by Natalie Merchant, Anthony Kiedis of The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bob Weir, Spearhead, and Dave Matthews, all of whom have environment-related songs in the film, contributing to an upbeat soundtrack.

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With a new introduction by Woody Mann Jazz and blues guitarist Woody Mann learned from the legendary Rev. Gary Davis and then played and recorded with Son House, Bukka White and John Fahey. He has performed throughout the world, recorded over a dozen...

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With a new introduction by Woody Mann Jazz and blues guitarist Woody Mann learned from the legendary Rev. Gary Davis and then played and recorded with Son House, Bukka White and John Fahey. He has performed throughout the world, recorded over a dozen...

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Woody Mann has made a name for himself due to his technically flawless and deeply personal style which shows the traces of many influences but is a voice uniquely his own. Mann began studying at an early age with the blues, ragtime, and gospel great Reverend Gary Davis, which forms the basis for his dazzling, impeccable, energetic style of playing, and which he has displayed while playing with such modern-day greats as John Fahey, Son House, and Jo Ann Kelly. Mann also has had an illustrious career as a teacher, graduating from Julliard and going on to found the International Guitar Seminars and serve as a member of the faculty at the New School. On this DVD, the maestro explores traditional country blues techniques within a contemporary idiom, examining the styles of such legendary figures as Blind Boy Fuller, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Scrapper Blackwell, and his own first teacher Gary Davis; included is a booklet containing song transcriptions.

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A pivotal figure in the history of the blues, Big Bill was a popular performer during the genres crossover into the mainstream, i.e., as blues music was embraced by white listeners as well as black. Born into a poor family in Mississippi, he was mostly self-taught, and didn't begin his career as a musician until relatively late. Nonetheless, he immediately became immensely popular due to his masterful ragtime and country blues guitar playing. His style was characterized by a strong alternating bass technique with melodic lead lines, which Woody Mann explains in this comprehensive tutorial of Broonzy's style material. Woody demonstrates how to play such favorites as "Moppers Blues," "Pig Meat Strut," "Long Tall Mama," "Worried Man Blues," "Saturday Night Rub," "Brownskin Shuffle," "How You Want It Done," "Mississippi River Blues," "Worrying You Off My Mind," and "Hey, Hey." Also included is a glimpse of Big Bill in the 1950s through rare archival footage.

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Blind Blake cuts an imposing figure in the canon of American music; acclaimed as one of the best blues guitarists of all time, he is also purported to be the originator of fingerstyle ragtime on the guitar. Woody Mann provides an in-depth exploration of the songs and techniques of the blues legend, demonstrating his unique alternating bass style that incorporates the dance and blues trends that were popular in the 1920s. Incorporating unique right hand thumb rolls into the complex innovations emerging from New York and Chicago jazz bands, Blind Blake developed a seminal sound and style that has yet to be equalled. The songs covered in Mann's instructional include the classic "Diddie Wa Diddie," as well as "Chump Man Blues," "Police Dog Blues," "That Will Never Happen No More," "Black Dog Blues" and "Blind Arthur's Breakdown."

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Accomplished instructor Woody Mann shows viewers of all levels the ins and outs of ragtime and blues style, from syncopated picking techniques to rhythmic bass lines, in this fun and accessible program.

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A comprehensive instruction guide to blues slide guitar styles. Contains over 25 transcriptions of authentic bottleneck blues tunes by such masters as Son House, Robert Johnson, Tampa Red, and many more.

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Here is a new approach to exploring the fretboard using techniques for "breaking down" chord blocks into smaller "pieces" and connecting them up and down the neck. Woody Mann teaches the repertoire of the masters of acoustic blues as he demonstrates how melodies and harmonies can be derived from simple, moveable chord shapes. Fretboard Logic is a method for relating the entire fretboard to the basic first-position chord shapes that we all learn as beginners and using them to create new chords, melodies, and variations in your own music. Includes music and instruction for six full blues tunes.