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I discovered Stefan Grossman together with Happy Traum through their Folkblues Fingerstyle Guitar tablature methods and indirectly a lot of great musicians like John Fahey, Elizabeth Cotten , Mississipi John Hurt and others. Even so I loved the books I never tried out Grossmans records. I had a couple of tracks on a Transatlantic compilation and thats it until I foud recently his 1975 record 'Bottleneck Serenade'.
Compared to other acoustic instrumental fingerstyle records this one has a pedagogical side : "let me show you folks what you can do with a steelstring guitar and a bottleneck".
12 tracks, 10 original compositions , one tracks by Ewan Mc Coll , one traditional and a little help by Mike Cooper on second guitar . All tracks have a different vibe : only fingerpicking, only slide , mix of fingerpicking and slide , open and standard tunings , different guitars (one track with electric guitar , not the best one btw) and a couple of overdubs. Nothing spectular , but a good overview of fingertstyle/ slide folk blues guitar.
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