Bob Brozman In Concert MB96181VX $24.95

Bob Brozman combines world music and American styles including blues, hot jazz, slide, Hawaiian and Caribbean influences to create an unforgettable, truly live concert. Bob has a fast-paced wide-ranging laughing, marveling and participating in his infectious rhythms. Bob's mainstay is the novel mixing of American and world music styles in completely new ways, as his slide guitar explores the musical frontiers between the first and third worlds. Throughout, Bob maintains a disarming talent for humor from the zany to the sardonic. All of Bob's "special effects" come from his hands only, without electronic devices. He pounds his guitars like a full drumset, whips them up behind his head, spins them in the air, and all done between licks that leave guitarists scratching their heads! His second instrument is his voice, ranging from deep growling blues to jazz scat-singing to Hawaiian yodel to calypso to French chanson.

Merle Travis Rare Performances 1946-1981 Vol. 1 MB95243VX $24.95

This video captures 35 years of rare film and television performances by one of the all-time great American musicians. The music and guitar playing of Merle Travis have been a seminal influence on the American music scene. There is not a fingerstyle guitarist whose playing has not been touched by Merle's style and technique. He wrote over 900 songs, and some, such as "Sixteen Tons" and "Dark as a Dungeon," are so familiar that today they are thought of as "folk songs". The video includes a free instructional booklet featuring an interview, biographical essay, and many rare photographs.

Roy, the Reverend and the Devil's Music HL00641532 $24.95

This video captures the legendary Roy Book Binder performing at a sold-out concert at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tennessee. With his signature wry wit and guitar technique, Roy peppered fingerpicking blues and ragtime songs with outrageously funny stories about his life and times and the people he met along the way. Homespun's cameras were there, and the result is a thoroughly engaging and entertaining performance video by one of America's most popular folk and blues artists. Songs: Rag Mama · Candyman · Delia · CC&O Blues · Mississippi Blues · Let Us Get Together · Keep A-Knockin' · She Did You a Favor · Electricity · Anywhere You Go · Travelin' Man.

John Denver - A Portrait HL02500256 19.95

This video offers you something unique and powerful--a guitar lesson taught by CGP (Certified Guitar Player) Chet Atkins. Addressing intermediate and advanced fingerstyle guitarists, Chet performs and describes in detail, phrase by phrase, the playing of nine of his classic arrangements. Split-screen techniques allow you to carefully study both his left and right hand movements. Your teacher for this lesson is one of the foremost fingerstyle guitar masters in the histor of the guitar. Have fun! 84 minute video.

Django - A Jazz Tribute HL00320283 $19.95

Groundbreaking young guitarist Bireli Lagrene pays musical tribute to the late, great Django Reinhardt with a blistering set of guitar duets. Teaming up with Django's son Babik, Lagrene negotiates the difficult guitar-duo format with palpable energy, daring and enthusiasm. This jazz tribute to Django Reinhardt is a simultaneous testimony to the legacy of a musical genius, and the unprecedented expressive range of the guitar in jazz today.

The Ralph Stanley Story APPAL-2000-V $29.98

The Stanley sound is true old-time, mountain style bluegrass music. This film tells Ralph's story through interviews with Ralph, fellow musicians, and those who know Ralph best. "Rank Stranger," "White Dove," "Pretty Polly," "Man of Constant Sorrow," and over twenty other songs help tell the story. Ralph performs with Dwight Yoakam, Patty Loveless, Junior Brown, Larry Sparks, George Shuffler, Ricky Skaggs, and members of the Clinch Mountain Boys.