A Master Class In Acoustic Guitar Making

Household names like Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson, Otis Span, Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon feature alongside lesser stars such as Billy Stepney, Victoria Spivey, Matt 'Guitar' Murphy and Big Joe Williams. To use the DVD package notes, the 1960' European tours by American Blues artists were legendary. They introduced a music that had only been previously available on hard-to-find discs to a new generation of young people and changed the face of our popular music forever. Blues fans finally got a chance to see theirs idols in the flesh with many of them caught on film.

As 2006 nears its end, no one can argue that the world of country music isn't, at this moment, the most adventurous in the mainstream pop music industry and that Nash Vegas is taking more chances on its acts as the rest of the biz relies more on narrowing things into smaller and smaller niches that can easily be hyped and digested. Sure, as always, artist's images and many recordings are calculated to score big as in any pop industry. The difference is in approach. The country-listening audience/demographic has widened considerably; therefore, there is a need – as well as an opportunity – for experimentation to see what sticks. This is the most exciting the music's been since Willie and Waylon hit the charts in the '70s, or perhaps to be a bit more fair, when Garth Brooks turned them upside down in the early '90s…