These were incredible lessons.  Thanks a lot, Rick!

Compare and contrast John Mayall's Another Man (Done Gone)

John Mayall (solo (from The Bluesbreakers album) -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ-f--xfbj4

John Mayall (solo)  (in which he mentions Sonny Boy) -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ9ipTAjUNg

NICE.

Thanks.

You mentioned "Bye  Bye Bird" in your introduction.  Here is a 1963 video of Sonny Boy II performing that piece:

Thanks, Jerry.  These little 'History of the Blues Harp' mini-lectures that pop up occasionally (like with Sonny Boy I and Big Walter) in the course of a lesson are really nice.

Maybe you could put together a couple of lessons that cover that, along with some signature riffs from the people you discuss.

Here's something interesting I came across: "Blue Midnight: The Film Biography of Little Walter", an upcoming film biography, which some of you might be interested in viewing.

Here is a video of Big Walter performing Easy:

Here is that version by Jimmy Rogers with Little Walter that Jerry mentions:

This was really, really nice.  This could be the most "soulful" piece that's been posted.  Is this sort of "feeling" because this is a minor key?  Is that what minor keys do in general?

Thanks.

Very nice.  Thanks.

Elmore James: Dust My Broom (harmonica accompaniment by Sonny Boy Williamson (II):

Hi Jerry.  Thanks for this song and the lessons. 

Could you briefly discuss the different structure for 12-bars and this tune (8-bar, right?)?

Thanks for all these lessons and the fine music.

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That was very nice, and these lessons are great. 

In a few of the older ones, there were download-able MP3s of Jerry and Rick performing the tunes.  Listening to them repeatedly on iPod/iTunes is a great help in internalizing the music.  Would it be possible to make more of them available that way?

Thanks.

This is great!  Thanks a lot for this one.

This seems to me to be a eight-bar blues with two verses (?) of 12-bar blues where the harp solo goes, then back to eight-bar.

Could you please do a bit of discussion of the eight-bar progression?

Thanks.

Oh, thanks for this, Jerry!  I've been waiting for this for some time.

How about some Howlin' Wolf riffs too?  (Smokestack Lightnin' and Forty-Four for a couple of examples.)  I think I've got the basics of the them figured out, somewhat.  (Your 'Sing the notes and they will come out naturally' really does work after some time.)

Thanks.

Mike -- 

"If you use Google Chrome, IE9 or Safari as your browser, you will see a menu at the top of the video for slowing down the videos" -- Thanks.  Yes.  That does the trick.  Will you be doing that with Firefox?

At about 4:40 into the video, Jerry mentions clicking on the "75%" or "50%" buttons to slow down the playback.  I see no such buttons.  What is he referring to?

Thanks.

Very, very nice.  (How about an MP3 of that?)

Here's a version by the Peter Green Splinter Group.

(Peter Green replaced Eric Clapton in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, and was the founder of Fleetwood Mac.)