I've just uploaded the Blues page on my website: www.rmguitar.info/blues.htm which is so far dedicated to Open D or E tuning. I'll add to it over time. I'm still exploring my gorgeous new guitar (the Lyn model by Brook Guitars - http://www.brookguitars.com/) and also the Nero 7 wave editing software. The reverb is very sensitive, and I'm not yet happy with the results. But any shortcomings there seem to be my fault, as the software allows fine tuning. Work in progress.
Although I've played blues guitar for (OMG!) nearly 30 years, I've not made any blues recordings, so hopefully I'll find time to add some more mp3 files in due course. In the meantime, the page includes an arrangement I made of an accompaniment guitar part to a song by Blind Boy Fuller. Like the great lute composer, John Dowland, his accompaniments are so complex, they make great solos. I've also invented a B section, to spin the piece out a bit longer. Hope you like it.
I mention Dowland, not just because he has come to the general public's consciousness of late due to Sting's recording, but I have just remembered a live broadcast I gave many years ago with a Scottish soprano (whose name I will not mention) of songs by Dowland. She was so nervous that, despite having the words and music in front of her, she froze and couldn't sing a word. I just kept playing the whole recital using Dowland's accompaniments as solos. Few people noticed!
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