Blues: Finger-Picked Guitar

(See a text list of all Blues: Finger-Picked Guitar albums.)

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Editor's Picks (see more)

JERRY KOSAK: Sounds Like This
In a space somewhere between blues, jazz, and ragtime; solo acoustic guitar that is a joy to hear.
CD price: $13.97 / MP3 price: $13.97
TOBY WALKER: Just Rolled In
There's a good reason why Jorma Kaukonen of Hot Tuna has Toby Walker teach fingerpicking guitar at the Fur Peace Ranch. Walker's a master at acoustic blues, rags and hot improvisational fingerpicking and this CD showcases some of his incredible style.
CD price: $14.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
PAT DONOHUE: Backroads
Acoustic guitar-based and roots-influenced original songs in the folk-blues tradition. Amazing fingerpicking style by the guitarist of "A Prairie Home Companion" radio show. Features the popular "Stealin’ from Chet" and "Road to Kingdom Come."
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
HENRY MAY: Dreamin' the Blues
Contemporary acoustic Blues guitar solos. Lots of slide and plenty of personality. Recorded just as Henry played it-- one guitar (though you won't believe it.) and no overdubbing.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
SALI OYUGI: The Return
A combination of soothing hypnotic rhythms and haunting vocal expression, beautifully complimented by her acoustic guitar and harp style, drawing from Kenyan and Tanzanian backgrounds.
CD price: $15.00
SIDESTREET RENY: Not Seen the Light of Day
Urban avant folk 'n blues trio, featuring fingerstyle resonator guitar upright bass and drums. A seemingly organic blend of the elements, sewing 100 plus years of American music into a rich tapestry of eclectic yet somehow familiar sounds all their own.
MP3 price: $12.00
TRICYCLE: Tricycle
A stellar "anything goes" acoustic jazz trio (gtr, sax, & tpt). Members have played with The Groove Collective, Tony Trischka Band, Grateful Dead big band Illuminati, Tommy Dorsey, Mel Torme, Dave Douglas, et. al.
CD price: $12.97
PAT DONOHUE: Profile
Acoustic guitar-based and roots-influenced original songs in the folk-blues tradition. Amazing fingerpicking style by the guitarist of "A Prairie Home Companion" radio show. Features the popular "Drowning" and "Jazz Names."
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
JOE MCMURRIAN: Rain of Days
CDBABY ***** rating. Joe McMurrian plays original acoustic delta blues with a modern twist. Bottleneck slide blues based fingerstyle guitar playing and songwriting at it's best, solo and with a band.
CD price: $14.95 / MP3 price: $14.95
CATFISH KEITH: Pepper in My Shoe!
"Catfish Keith is one of the best blues entertainers in the USA." -Dave Van Ronk "The new slide king of the National steel guitar." -Blueprint
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00

New Arrivals (see more)

SCOTT AINSLIE: Thunder's Mouth
A powerful, roots-oriented player and singer with strong songwriting, Ainslie's work is always informed by traditional and contemporary sources and straddles that territory with remarkable grace.
CD price: $15.00
RENZO STAIANO: El Ocho Vol 1
Eclectic acoustic guitar music, jazz, south american styles, and some blues, all on an Eight-String acoustic guitar.
CD price: $12.97
STEVE HOWELL: My Mind Gets To Ramblin'
Fingerstyle guitar country blues and soulful, heartfelt vocals.
MP3 price: $12.97
STEVE MANN: Steve Mann Live at the Ash Grove
Brilliant and innovative young guitarist in the blues tradition of the 1960's, the most treasured of his few LPs; a live recording on which he ranges from Blind Lemon Jefferson to Ray Charles to Mose Allison with an energy unmatched.
CD price: $15.00
BOB HECKLER: The Green Album
Meticulous, melodic, complex, fingerstyle guitar, likely to prompt guitarists to play and audiences to enjoy over and over. Songs are varied in rhythm, but all create the characteristic Heckler brand of inner peace.
CD price: $9.99
JOEL PATERSON: Steel is Real
a session of western swing, blues, rockabilly, and jazz featuring the pedal steel and lap steel guitar.
CD price: $12.97
DICKAPPLETON-GUITARPLAYER.COM: obmutescent!
27 pieces of incredible guitar playing described as 'strong, rhythmic and meaningful' by Stefan Grossman in an engaging variety of guitar styles and techniques.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
ANDY GRANT: Spirals
Transcendental acoustic guitar instrumentals.
CD price: $12.97
WOODEN DINOSAUR: Analune
Experimental folk music.
CD price: $7.99
EDEN & JOHN'S EAST RIVER STRING BAND: Some Cold Rainy Day
Old Time singin' & playin'. 1920's style country blues in the tradition of Memphis Minnie, Charley Patton, Mississippi John Hurt, Skip James, Lottie Kimbrough, and Blind lemon Jefferson. Beautiful old-time acoustic guitar & ukulele. Art by R. Crumb.
CD price: $12.99

Top Sellers (see more)

PAUL CURRERI: Songs for Devon Sproule
(5/03) Working real hard, this young Virginian and his shimmering guitar, to cancel everything that doesn't lend toward gut, Singing, sounds like a good day.
MP3 price: $15.00
SWAMP CABBAGE: Honk
NE Florida swamp, fatback, boogaloo-blues stirred into a gumbo of Louisiana ragtime . Walter Parks' fingerpicked electric guitar honks like a razorback hog. Jagoda drums like he's leadin' a New Orleans funeral parade and Lindsey's bass barks like a tuba t
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
STEVE TROVATO: About Time...
Virtuoso guitar playing at its best. Styles range from Blues to Country, Jazz, Rock and Classical.
CD price: $17.00
BRADLEY N. LITWIN: You Rascal You
Authentic vintage delta blues, stride and jazz; made of one part Cab Calloway Hi-Dee-Ho and one part Nat King Cole smooth-as-silk, with a generous dose of Robert Johnson down-to-the-crossroads.
CD price: $13.00 / MP3 price: $5.00
JOE MCMURRIAN: Rain of Days
CDBABY ***** rating. Joe McMurrian plays original acoustic delta blues with a modern twist. Bottleneck slide blues based fingerstyle guitar playing and songwriting at it's best, solo and with a band.
CD price: $14.95 / MP3 price: $14.95
DAVE MACKENZIE: Old, New, Borrowed & Blue
classic Delta (slide guitar) & Piedmont (fingerpicking) blues with contemporary song themes including a lot of humor
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
JAKE SPEED & THE FREDDIES: Queen City Rag
American folk, country blues, and ragtime with finger-picking guitars, old-timey melodies, and Cincinnati songs. Influences include Woody Guthrie, Mississippi John Hurt, and Jesse Fuller.
CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $14.00
TOBY WALKER: Just Rolled In
There's a good reason why Jorma Kaukonen of Hot Tuna has Toby Walker teach fingerpicking guitar at the Fur Peace Ranch. Walker's a master at acoustic blues, rags and hot improvisational fingerpicking and this CD showcases some of his incredible style.
CD price: $14.97 / MP3 price: $9.99
FILISKO & NODEN: Live
Acoustic blues featuring harmonica and guitar with the occasional old-time country tune.
CD price: $12.97
BRADLEY N. LITWIN: I'll Give You The Bus Money, Honey!
1920s Vintage Acoustic Blues, Stride, Ragtime & Jazz Pop - authentic fingerstyle guitar and honest vocals.
CD price: $13.00 / MP3 price: $5.00