Guitar Artistry of Eric Bibb

The original "Son of Leon" describes his life and plays his music.
This is another is really fine series of "Guitar Artistry of...." Videos from Stefan Grossman's Vestapol label. Grossman, a fine guitarist in his own right, and a long time student of Rev. Gary Davis, has been releasing video since back in the old VHS days. Though some contained performances, Grossman's main product was the guitar tutorial: a series of video lessons by some of the true experts in finger picking.

As a person who loves to hear good guitar playing but is "all-thumbs" when it comes to actually playing, I always look forward to a new video of performance - or, as in the case of this DVD, interview and performance. This - one of the new batch from Vestapol - is by blues guitarist Eric Bibb.

Bibb, the son of legendary folk singer Leon Bibb, grew up in Greenwich Village in New York and was always surrounded by folk music in the early 1960s. Frequent guests to the house were Pete Seeger, Dave Van Ronk and even a young Bob Dylan. But New York wasn't for...





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