Product Review

Roy Book Binder has given us another terrific look at his unique brand of fingerpicked blues guitar. On this DVD/video, he covers the basics of open tunings and the use of the bottleneck, teaching essential techniques in a way that will be easy even for newcomers to this style. Roy introduces beginning players to the slide through an exploration of open D ("Vestapol") and open G ("Spanish") tuning, demonstrating songs, licks, techniques, and the sounds of bottleneck blues. Songs: Never Drive a Stranger from Your Door * Cigarette Blues * Electricity * Palm Trees Shaking in the Night * She Did You a Favor * Baby Don't You Do It No More * Tired of Being Mistreated. 80-MIN. DVD OR VIDEO * LEVEL 2 * INCLUDES MUSIC + TAB