Piedmont Style Country Blues Guitar Basics - This guitar instruction book, written by Valerie Turner, focuses on the Piedmont style of fingerpicking in the context of early blues and traditional pieces. Songs in this book span a variety of keys, tunings, and timings, and are represented using a combination of chord charts, tablature, and standard notation. The audio download files that accompany the book are an invaluable tool when tackling the timing for difficult passages. (Read Review)

Song Titles: Buck Dance, Candy Man, Coffee Blues, Do Lord Remember Me, Freight Train, Going Down the Road Feeling Bad, Goodnight Irene, I Shall Not Be Moved, I've Got the Blues and I Can't Be Satisfied, I Will Turn Your Money Green, Just As Well Get Ready You Got to Die, Key to the Highway, Louis Collins, My Creole Belle, Nobody Cares for Me, Railroad Bill, Richland Women Blues, Shake That Thing, Spike Driver Blues, Stagolee, Sugar Babe It's All Over Now, Walkin' Blues, and When Death Come Creeping in Your Room.

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