Bill Malone is one of the most successful and hardest working performers in magic. But, unlike most in his category he is also highly skilled and hysterically funny. This four-volume set of DVDs is full of the magic Malone uses to earn a living. You get to see him perform the routines for a live audience and then he walks you step by step through everything you need to know to learn them. Also includes some of the routines he used during his television appearances. Besides the routines you will also learn about the business side of magic.
Bill Malone is one of the most successful and hardest working performers in magic. But, unlike most in his category he is also highly skilled and hysterically funny. This four-volume set of DVDs is full of the magic Malone uses to earn a living. You get to see him perform the routines for a live audience and then he walks you step by step through everything you need to know to learn them. Also includes some of the routines he used during his television appearances. Besides the routines you will also learn about the business side of magic.
Strictly judging from the lyrical sentiment of his recordings, it might be wise not to make Chicago guitarist Byther Smith angry. Smitty's uncompromising songs are filled with threats of violence and ominous menace (the way blues used to be before the age of political correctness), sometimes to the point where his words don't even rhyme. They don't have to, either you're transfixed by the sheer intensity of his music.
Jill, a teenager, feels misunderstood by her neglectful selfish parents, Frank and Alice. Following a misunderstanding with Frank and trouble with her boyfriend she attempts suicide. Jill's guilt-ridden father tries at last to help her and to cheer her up but new problems ensue…
The amazing artistry of Darol Anger propels this powerful and enlightening exploration of blues fiddle. His deep knowledge of the violin, along with his relaxed good humor and encouraging manner, will help bring your fiddle playing to a whole new level. Using a "call and response" interactive teaching method, you’ll trade licks with Darol as you learn tunes, riffs and styles from the Mississippi Delta to blues-inflected bluegrass, bebop, jazz and even rock and roll.
Virtuoso piano player who first recorded in his late seventies, on this compilation collected from concerts on different venues in Austria during "Stars of Boogie Woogie" tour in 1987, Booker T. Laury covers sides by Roosevelt Sykes, Sunnyland Slim, Little Walter, Jimmy Rogers and Chuck Berry listening of which makes discussion about authenticity nonessential since covers sound as authentic and original as his own compositions. Unique and distinctive, lowdown, bone deep playing style with accentuated left hand lines if ocean is waiving, whisky soaked voice, self-confident personality whose recorded musical legacy is small but rich and influential, is Mr. Booker T. Laury.
German harmonica master and singer Chris Kramer fulfilled a blues dream of his. A must have for all Blues lovers.
Blues on the South Side is probably the best album slide guitarist Homesick James ever laid down (originally for Prestige in 1964). The stylistic similarities to his cousin, the great Elmore James, are obvious, but Homesick deviates repeatedly from the form…