You can get all Steve’s teaching videos in a digital copy at Homespun.

Play guitar and mandolin Steve James-style!

Get the last DVD hard copies of Roots and Blues Fingerstyle Guitar for $25 plus shipping.

Books:

Fingerstyle Blues Songbook

DVDs:

Roots and Blues Guitar

 

 

 

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Fingerstyle Blues Songbook

(String Letter press) book with CD $15

Steve’s 2005 book. Learn to play country blues, ragtime blues, boogie blues, slow blues, and gospel with fingerstyle technique. The songs are: Betty and Dupree, Shortnin’ Bread, “A” Blues for Ya, Raggin’ the Blues, Walkin’ the Basses, Slow as Lightnin’, Poor Boy, Delta Thing, Dusted, Lonesome Weary Blues, Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor, Oh, Mary Don’t You Weep, Skin Game Blues, Drop D Blues, and Bye Bye Baby Blues

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Roots and Blues Guitar DVD ON SALE

(Homespun) $25

Roots/Blues Guitar is a comprehensive 80 minute session that includes demonstrations of five complete song arrangements from the SJ repertoire plus tips on chord building, fingerstyle technique and slide guitar. Starting with the basics of thumb-and-finger picking and blues harmony, Steve demonstrates several song motifs in various keys and tunings.  Included are some of his unique melodic chord vamps and slide guitar riffs.  Accompanied by tab, this program is aimed at the beginning to intermediate player.
Learn To Play Blues Mandolin is a rollicking trip through standard and classic song arrangements plus tips on technique and chord theory from basics on up. Featured on the song performances are guitar accompaniment by John Sebastian (part 1) and Del Rey (part 2).
You can get a digital copy at Homespun here

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