Book with online video. An essential guide for playing fingerstyle blues in open tunings, with and without a bottleneck slide. Acoustic Guitar magazine contributing writer Pete Madsen shares the secrets behind the styles of 12 great guitarists, both prewar and postwar. Each lesson demonstrates key licks and phrases of a particular artist and ends with a short new piece that puts everything in a typical blues context. Borrow from these masters to add authenticity to your own music: Charley Patton, Elizabeth Cotten, Memphis Minnie, Son House, Skip James, Tampa Red, Booker White, Robert Johnson, R.L. Burnside, Jimmy Page, Kelly Joe Phelps, and Alvin Youngblood Hart. Note/tab. 83 pp.