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Mick Martin plays "Country Blues" on acoustic guitar. The title of the CD/DVD is called, "REVELATOR". If you don't know what "Country Blues" is, listen to Mick Martin, Mick Jagger's version of "Prodigal Son". Listen to Robert Johnson, Skip James, Blind Willie McTell, Mississippi John Hurt, Rev. Gary Davis, Blind Blake, Fred McDowell and many more. This is the music played Fingerpicking style on acoustic guitar that made the electric blues and other genres of acoustic music what they are today.
Mick Martin's Fingerpicking style is very unique. That is, it's not just a 1,2 approach, but you never know where the bass is going to go. "This music is so much fun to play on acoustic guitar" says Mick Martin. "It's like having a complete band on one guitar."
Mick Martin has a "FREE GUITAR LESSON" page on his website for anyone who would like to begin to play this style of music, "Country Blues. He also has a "FREE GUITAR LESSON" page to help you get started to learn Fingerpicking.
Purchase Mick Martin's CD/DVD of "Country Blues" for only $16.85 at his "STORE" page and enjoy the finest in acoustic guitar. This is the first CD that includes an Instructional DVD to learn the songs on the music CD.
07.05.2008 Blues News- Where else can you purchase a CD/Instructional DVD for under $17.00 ?
On May 9th, 2007 Mick Martin visited world renowned sound
engineer Riccardo Schulz at his Carnegie Mellon University recording studio in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to pick up the final version of his album, Revelator. Mick has teamed up with Riccardo on this project as well as others.
Riccardo has recorded and/or produced for variety of record labels
including New Albion, Mode Records, Ocean Records, Norvard, and New World Records, and for artists such as Keith Lockhart and the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, Rachael Worby and the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra, Laura Opedisano, Aki Takahashi, Eunice Norton, Vivica Genaux, and many others.
Revelator is a solo 'Country Blues' album, and features Mick's masterful reworking of ten classic blues songs by the likes of Son House, Mississippi John Hurt and Blind Willie Mctell.
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