This lesson captures a fascinating musical exchange between two icons of American folk music as they reminisce, sing songs, and talk about the various influences on Jack’s singular guitar style.

Jack and Arlo discuss Jack’s formative days and the first songs he learned when he ran away from home to join a rodeo. Then they proceed through many of the blues, ballads and cowboy songs that form his rich repertoire. Jack and Arlo play songs of Jack’s many musical heroes, including Arlo’s dad Woody Guthrie (his major influence), Cisco Houston, Lead Belly, Rev. Gary Davis, Brownie McGhee, Tim Hardin, Libba Cotton, Johnny Cash and others.

Our split-screen cameras are there to capture Jack’s guitar technique as he plays through some of his best-known songs, allowing you to see up-close how he creates the guitar arrangements that make up his unique style. Jack demonstrates several traditional guitar standards, fingerpicking Railroad Bill, Freight Train, Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out and Candy Man, and using country-style flatpicking on Take Me Back and Try Me One More Time, Cup of Coffee, The Cuckoo and Hard Travelin’. Jack adds flatpicking blues licks to San Francisco Bay Blues, Poor Howard, Blind Lemon and Black Snake Moan, while Woody’s Talking Sailor utilizes a rolling three-finger strum. Jack tunes his guitar to double dropped D tuning (DBGDAD) for his fingerstyle arrangement of Tim Hardin’s If I Were a Carpenter.

DISCS:	1 DVD
DVD REGION:	ALL
FORMAT:	NTSC
DURATION:	80 mins
BOOKLET:	YES