I highly recommend Alan Lomax's "The Land Where the Blues Began" as an excellent introduction to the roots of the blues.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Links & Resources   

Pre-order my upcoming two CDs and $ave!

(If I forgot you or you'd like to be added to the list, send me an e-mail with your Interweb-tubes You-Are-Ill and I'll include you.)

Equipment, Parts & Accessories, Repairs, Recording:

• American Music - equipment & repairs (Fremont, Seattle, WA); I buy local whenever possible — and will not be caught dead in a Guitar Center store (they treat customers like thieves).
• Aaron Andrews - most excellent stringed-instrument repairman & luthier. (U-District, Seattle)
• Bard's Cathedral - the "anti-studio;" recording and CD duplication for musicians on a budget; run by accomplished polymath musician and certifiable multi-tasker, Thaddeus Spae. (West Seattle)
• Dusty Strings is the premier acoustic-instrument shop in the area; lots of beautiful—and expensive—axes to drool over. They also have a really nice, intimate performance space you can book. (Fremont)
• The Folk Store - new & used acoustic fretted instruments. (U-District)
• Just Strings - just strings, in bulk & at great prices.
• Musician's Friend - equipment catalog.
• Novax Guitars - Ralph Novak, fanned-fret pioneer and veteran custom luthier, makes some really bitchin' guitars. I'm currently drooling over a custom Serenade EL while saving my pennies to get him started on it. (Eugene, OR)
• Self Adhesive Records - full-featured digital & analog recording (Georgetown, Seattle). My next two CDs are being recorded here; owner Jon Goff (formerly guitar, bass and keyboard for the Memphis Radio Kings) is also producing.
• Shoestring Studios - recording acoustic music since 1977; Chris Glanister, Engineer/Producer, 425-218-5872. (Edmonds, WA)
• Stewart-MacDonald - parts, accessories & instrument kits.
• Trading Musician - used instruments & equipment (Ravenna, Seattle); good prices, nice people.

For Guitar Players & Performers:

• Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Collections.
• Guitar tablature; a good way for non-music readers—which is to say, most guitar players—to learn songs.
• RootsWorld is a great place to get world/folk music CDs. It's run by Cliff Furnald, a pillar of the Connecticut folk music community for decades.
• The Solo Performer is another well-constructed site, full of useful info for acoustic guitar players and songwriters.

Associations:

• The Cascade Blues Association is a good site to check out for all sorts of info including pictures and sound clips; Affiliate Member, The Blues Foundation.
• The Seattle Folklore Society's Web site contains everything you need to know about Seattle's folk music scene - where to go, where and when to set your radio dial, who's hot and where to get the CDs, and much more. Indispensable for folk-music fans.
• The South Sound Blues Association is based in blues hot spot Tacoma, WA; Affiliate Member, The Blues Foundation.
• Victory Music is an all-volunteer organization founded in 1969 to support all kinds of acoustic music in the Puget Sound area. These are the folks I hang with most of the time.
• I also belong to the Washington Blues Society, which supports blues in the Pacific Northwest; Affiliate Member, The Blues Foundation.

New CD Project: My latest project is to record two CDs' worth of songs almost simultaneously. One is all-blues for my solo work, the other will be a RooTsters CD with my new partner, Alan Kausal. Check out the great Pre-Release Offer and save money on one or both.

See you at the next gig! Bluesically Yours,
 
                       - Stan

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