FingerstyleBlues.com: . . . A thorough overview of Fingerstyle Blues Guitar ... videos, lessons, snippets and much more covering all the original fingerstyle artists that laid the foundation for Ragtime Guitar ... this site is truly engrossing and worth a visit! Click Here!

Ernie Hawkins: . . . for many years Ernie Hawkins has been playing concerts, clubs, blues and folk festivals, workshops, colleges, museums, parties, fist fights and millennium celebrations in the United States, Canada, Japan and Europe and at every stop in the road from A Prairie Home Companion to Antone's to the Madrid Jazz Festival. He has played with blues greats such as Son House, Mance Lipscomb, Fred McDowell, Jim Brewer, Rev. Gary Davis and many others. Visit Ernie's site to learn more! And, if interested in instructional materials authored by Ernie, Click Here!

Dale Miller: . . . a very nicely designed website focusing on all things fingerstyle guitar ... Dale happened to be Kicking Mule's best selling American-based artist. "... Guitarist's Choice and Fingerpicking Delights showcased Dale as possessor of a limitless and varied repertoire—encompassing rags, blues, jazz standards, Beatles ... reviews, enthusiastic as they were, focused on Miller the craftsman more than Miller the creator. Such divisions between interpreters and originators are thankfully, not as rigidly defined as they once were, bet there still seem to be two distinct camps of fingerpickers—with the "intellectual" school on one side of the fence and the "emotional" school on the other." (read more on Dale Miller's liner notes for "Fingers Don't Fail Me Now")

Eric Schoenberg: . . . the web site for all guitar ventures Schoenberg. We are two different enterprises run out of 106 Main Street in Tiburon, California: our own line of top quality, tradition-based Schoenberg guitars, and the store in which they, along with examples of other top builders of today and yesterday are sold and repaired. Joe Miller teaches private lessons and classes, and concerts and workshops are held. You will find details of all this in the related pages here on the site. Eric and his cousin Dave Laibman were among the first transposers of classical piano ragtime to the guitar. This resulted in their album, Contemporary Ragtime Guitar, on Folkways Records.

The Art of Ragtime Guitar: One of my all-time favorite books ever published on the topic. Long out of print, but some of the coolest original ragtime pieces ever written specifically for guitar. by Richard Saslow. Now available in PDF format ... I memorized everyone of these pieces in High School no less ...

Ragtime Guitar Arrangements by Tom Thomason: Have you been looking for guitar arrangements of rags? Then you have come to the right place! Here you'll find professional ragtime guitar tablatures, brought to you by Tom Thomason from Gothenburg, Sweden.

Ragtime Guitar Tablatures: Tabs of Steve J. McWilliam's Guitar Arrangements & Compositions (TablEdit Format)

Ragtime Guitar LPs: ... from Ben's Vinyl Basement Highly collectible, hard-to-find, fingerstyle and ragtime guitar records offered by a highly reputable dealer out of England. Highly recommended by Mickey.

Blind Blake Early Master of the Ragtime Guitar: The King Of Ragtime Guitar: Blind Blake & His Piano-Sounding Guitar ... a well-written treatise on Blind Blake ... who helped form the roots of Ragtime as an artform on guitar.

Peter Lang: One of the Masters of American Primitive Guitar. Along with John Fahey and Leo Kottke, he blazed new trails in Acoustic Steel-String Guitar ... establishing the instrument as a powerful solo medium. And, of course, many of his songs are also classified as Ragtime Guitar ... with a solid alternating bass and a full sense of melody.

John Fahey: The originator of American Primitivism ... A truly prolific artist that has left us an astounding legacy of Acoustic Steel String Guitar Recordings. He also created the label: Takoma Records ... This label has done more for Acoustic Steel String than any other in the history of music recordings. A close parallel was and is Stefan Grossman's labels: Kicking Mule Records and others.

Free Guitar Lessons: A great site that will get you started on guitar ... Excellent foundation builder for ensuring you have the fundamentals before tackling Ragtime.

Learn to play guitar like Blind Blake himself - The King of Ragtime Guitar - with Jim Bruce ... check out his latest video (fully downloadable!). CLICK HERE!

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