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Introduction to Delta Blues Guitar
Level 1/2
Fans of Delta, or Deep South, pre-war blues guitar will get a crash course in the style, learning aspects of repertoire, artists, historical and contextual background, tunings, right and left hand technique, bottleneck slide, and other elements. Songs by such masters as Son House, Bukka White, Mississippi Fred McDowell and, of course, Robert Johnson will be taught.
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William Lee Ellis is Memphis-based guitarist/songwriter William Lee Ellis has been hailed a "wizard on steel strings" who "recalls Ry Cooder in his prime" (Blues Revue), while AllMusic Guide writes: "Not since the late John Campbell has there been a blues talent so original." The son of banjo composer Tony Ellis and the godson of bluegrass patriarch Bill Monroe, William Lee Ellis holds a Master of Music degree in classical guitar, though he has specialized for years in pre-war acoustic blues styles. In 2004, a House of Blues Radio Hour special on "New Voices of the Blues" spotlighted Ellis, and he has toured as a traditional musician in more than 20 countries from Japan to Norway. Recently, he accompanied his dad in concert in Havana, Cuba, and Minsk, Belarus, for the U.S. State Department as well as the New Yorker Festival with actor Steve Martin. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology at the University of Memphis. Among his recordings are Conqueroo, picked by Acoustic Guitar magazine as one of 2003's best albums, and his latest, the Jim Dickinson-produced God's Tattoos, called "one of the most welcome acoustic blues albums of 2006" by the Chicago Sun-Times and winner of the 2007 Bluestar award in Australia for "Best International CD Release" by a solo artist.
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