Great Choices Jason! Yes, Robert Nighthalk and Houston Stackhouse is amazing! How about that Peck Curtis on drums, pots and pans! Eddie Taylor from that same series and also Big...

If I had to name one, I think it would be Masters of the Modern Blues: Robert Nighthawk and Houston Stackhouse. If I could get away with bringing 9 more, they would be The...

Hi Duke, Your lessons are great! Any chance of posting the backing track at the original tempo? Thanks so much. Regards, Mario

Duke, would it be possible for you to recommend a good jazz fake book? I've been researching it and honestly there are so many and reviews say they are inaccurate. Its confusing...

OK I'm going to have to say 10 desert island records. Not in any order of importance. they are all the best!    Best of Muddy Waters  T-Bone walker complete imperial or B&W...

OK TODAY my desert island choice would be Kenny Burrell's "Midnight Blue" but tomorrow it maybe "The Best of Muddy Waters!" Ha Ha Ha! I really is an impossible question Mike, shame...

Geez.  That's impossible, but-either Solo Flight by Charlie Christian, or the Complete Basement Tapes by Bob Dylan and the Band.  The Charlie Christian is the wellspring for all...

1 million dollar question!!!!! At first I'd rather say....Robert Johnson "The complete recordings" or maybe...."Legend" of Bob Marley!!! :DDD

I guess I'd like a short lesson on singing. How you approach it? What keys are best for your voice? How and when you capo etc. Thanks for it all, bc

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Thanks for the tip, Duke - I just bought one off Ebay - 10 bucks delivered, NM condition....any album by the Crusaders up to and including Royal Jam would be excellent...

I agree, that's really an unfair question. Today I will say it would have to be Freddie King's Just Pickin'. That album is just one great Blues guitar instrumental after another...

hmmmm.....can I have my Peerless 175 copy instead????    one album....Kenny Burrell's "'Round Midnight" or "God Bless the Child"...or a double Phil Upchurch's "Darkness...

That's nearly imposible and definately not a fair question. It should be 10 desert island discs. Seeing it's just one disc i think my choice would differ every day but today I'd...

Just one? Probably one of those old R&B Stripper songs albums or an album that was made of something edible. LOL I'd smuggle a box of the following the original Roomful album...

Hard to choose but if I was shipwrecked today it would be Savane by Ali Farka Toure.  I dig how he makes the guitar sound like another instrument, the arrangements, the...

Wow Mike. It's very hard to choose just one. But if I had to choose just one (right now) it would be Wes Montgomery Smokin' at the Half Note. One of the all time great guitarists...

Only the Lonely--  just kidding...  do double albums count?  Then Electric Ladyland--  otherwise Axis Bold as Love--  because Hendrix was/is...  well, you know--  Thanks for the...

thank you duke. yea, i sort of got the amp without knowing what it does. took me years to figure out how to use the amp properly. to me amp, great amp is as much important as...

@Corey....Thanks for introducing me to this concept of dynamics because I've never heard of it before!!!! Pretty ignorant about it!!! It's something that really makes the...

I have a 1972 (silverface) Fender Pro reverb amp that I bought in New Orleans years ago that I really dig.  Probably my favorite sounding amp, when it is working that is!

Your lucky Rwijaya, it's the hardest thing to find a great amp. I had to have a 65 Deluxe Reverb modded to get the sound I needed.

@Alex.  I used to use a thumb pick years ago, but I like you I was breaking strings a lot.  I still use a metal thumb pick and fingerpick when I play resonator and I want a louder...

I would say its my fender tweed deluxe 5e3 circuit clone amp i have. I just seems can't makes that amp sounds bad!anything i play through sounds excelent,  and its my to go amp for...

20 years!?!?!?! wow...I can see the reason why it sounds so good!!!^_^ I almost always use a thumbpick and I'm starting now to play without nothing but my fingers...It's harder and...

@Mike....yes, playing the chords and bass builds a good foundation.  Like building a house.  Learn the song by layers and you will get there.  Also listen to the original about...

Hey Guys ... thanks for the encouragement and thoughts!  Corey .. I will try a lighter touch and also focus on the bass.  Now I'm going to move to playing the whole song through...

"Fine and Mellow", a 1939 release from Commodore Records with "Strange Fruit" on the flipside. . .

Wow.  Never saw this clip before .. it is GREAT.  I always loved Ben Websters playing .. and seeing all the different views and approaches each of the Artist took was really cool.