Guitar Workshops – 3 CD Combo – Various

Contemporary Guitar Workshop:

Featuring Dave Evans, Duck Baker, Jim McLennan & Leo Wijnkamp Jr.

This album was original released in 1975. I was very interested in trying to put together a project that would illustrate some of the approaches that fingerpicking guitar is taking. I asked for the help of four guitarists whom I admire greatly and whom I thought would each compliment the other as each has a distinct style and feel. On looking back on this project I am glad to see that it has taken on a certain “international” aspect as each musician comes from a different part of the world. Perhaps this has affected their unique approaches though I tend to think that the development of an artist is more personal than regional characteristics.

This project attempts to present many different forms of music, i.e. classic rags, fiddle tunes, original compositions and old pop standards. Yet somehow there is a strong bonding element throughout the music. It is not only the instrument – the guitar – but also a certain quality that transcends into each selection.

Track Listing: (click on tracks for mp3 sound samples)

1. Silver Bells* Duck Baker

2. Jessica* Dave Evans

3. Flopped Ear Mule* Leo Wijnkamp Jr.

4. Walking My Baby Back Home Duck Baker

5. Dickie’s Blues No. 2* Jim McLennan

6. Cold Feet* Dave Evans

7. The Chrysanthemum* Jim McLennan

8. Grey Hills* Dave Evans

9. Mardi Gras Dance* Duck Baker

10. The Elephant March Leo Wijnkamp Jr.

11. Fisher’s Hornpipe* Duck Baker

12. Ugly Duckling* Dave Evans

13. The Easy Winners* Jim McLennan

14. Charles O’Connor* Duck Baker

15. Jolymont* Dave Evans

Those tunes marked with a star * are included in the tab/music PDF booklet on this CD.

Women’s Guitar Workshop:

Originally released in the 1970s by Kicking Mule Records.

Enhanced CD containing a pdf tab/music booklet on the CD

Track Listing: (click on tracks for mp3 sound samples)

Gill Burns:

1. Medley: Off She Goes & Lily Boleiro

2. Roxborough Castle

3. Give Me Your Hand

4. Gillespie’s Hornpipe

5. Fairies’ Hornpipe

Janet Smith:

6. Green, Green Rocky Road

7. Piano Mover’s Rag

8. If I’d Have Known

9. Curried Sunflower Seeds

Wendy Grossman:

10. Kemp’s Gigue

11. Atholl Highlanders

Margo Random:

12. Little Creature

13. Top Of The Hill

14. Mosquito Song

15. Rapid Pips

Lynn Clayton:

16. Lord and Lady Fitzwater

17. Cat and Mouse

Blues Guitar Workshop:

Featuring Davey Graham, Duck Baker, Sam Mitchell, Tom Paley, Mike Cooper

Originally released in the 1970s by Kicking Mule Records.

Track Listing: (click on tracks for mp3 sound samples)

Davey Graham:

1. How Come You Do Me Like You Do

2. I Just Want To Make Love To You

3. When I’ve Been Drinking

4. Panic Room Blues

Duck Baker:

5. Black Monk,

6. Always

7. Turnaround

8. The Clown

9. Forty Ton Parachute

10. The Stroll

Sam Mitchell:

11. Cat’s Squirrel

12. Keep A Bootin’

Tom Paley:

13. Blake’s Rag

14. Buck Dance

Mike Cooper:

15. Morning Star Blues