THE ART OF

FINGERSTYLE GUITAR

Guitar Performance DVD

For all the variety in these 14 performances, there is a unity of skill, passion and exploration.  One guitarist uses fingerpicks while another purley flesh and nails.  Some play with a semi classical right hand position and others anchor the pinky on the guitar's face.  Various tunings and styles of guitar - classical, flamenco, steel string, metal-bodied - express the musical personalities of these players.  They tell us who they are by these means.  The art of fingerstyle guitar is playing with such self-certainty that a musical phrase unfolds into something as unique and identifiable as a fingerprint.  Here are eight of the idiom's finest artist clearly telling us who they are.

Stefan Grossman
Sheebag An Sheemore
Bob Brozman
Hawaiian Greetings
Steel Guitar Stomp
John Renbourne
Medley: Lament For Owen Roe O'Neill / Mist Covered Mountains Of Home / The Orphan
Sweet Potato
Brad Jones
Funky Fingers
Martin Simpson
Medley: Lord Gregory / Bob's Song
Joe Miller
Lime Rock
Peppino D'Agostino
Grand Canyon
Ponteio
Martin Carthy
Seven Yellow Gypsies
Martin Simpson & Bob Brozman
Bentonia
Chimes Of Timbuktu
Stefan Grossman & Duck Baker
Danish Drone