Book with online audio. The East Coast, from Florida up to Virginia, gave birth to a vibrant fingerstyle blues tradition, documented on recordings from the mid-1920s up into the 1970s and 1980s. In this book, John Miller has selected some of the most interesting and exciting recorded performances from that period, with transcriptions, lyrics, playing tips, and links to the original recorded performances.

A particular focus of the book is the repertoire of three of the strongest practitioners of East Coast Blues: Buddy Moss, Blind Willie McTell and Blind Boy Fuller. You’ll also find two songs each by Luke Jordan and William Moore, a Blind Blake tune and a host of songs from artists deserving wider recognition: Peg Leg Howell, Carl Martin, Floyd Council, Virgil Childers, Sonny Jones, Gabriel Brown, Ralph Willis, Willie Trice and Henry Johnson, many of whose songs are being made available for the first time.

If you’re looking for fingerstyle guitar pieces with a great range of feeling, musical variety and depth of expression, you need look no further. Note/tab. 144 pp.