The Roots of Slide Guitar

By Fred Sokolow

This book/CD pack is a complete survey of slide guitar, its pioneers, and how it developed. It includes: 6 note-for-note transcriptions of famous slide tunes - Come On in My Kitchen (Robert Johnson) * Motherless Children (Mance Lipscomb) * Roll and Tumble Blues (Hambone Willie Newbern) * You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had (Muddy Waters) * You Gotta Move (Mississippi Fred McDowell) * You Shook Me (Earl Hooker with Muddy Waters).; instruction in the essential playing styles; the history and the development of slide guitar; biographies of its representative artists; and recordings on CD of the songs, exercises and licks.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0793577357
• ISBN13: 9780793577354
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 12.0" x 0.2" x 9.0"