Roy book binder born october 5, 1943 is an american blues guitarist, singersongwriter and storyteller. Blues celtic celtic fingerstyle christmas country and. Concerts and showcases displayed in b old print are linked to the musicians websites. Legendary bluesman and raconteur roy book binder takes you, step by step, through 10 original tunes. For the past 45 years roy book binder has traveled the globe with blues legends such as the reverend gary davis, bonnie raitt, and jorma kaukonen. He talks about how that happened and how he made friends along the way and lots and lots of great music. Book binder has the licks, and the mystery of timeless music in his fingers and is known for his slide arrangements and original compositions as much as hes known for his storytelling and dry wit. Dont hesitate to drop me a line if you have any questions about our lessons. Rambling around the blues world for the last 45 years, roy book binder has toured with arthur big boy crudup, hot tuna, jj cale, and bonnie raitt. The firm also maintains a small local practice to keep a presence and involvement in the local community. Equally at home with blues and ragtime, book shifts from open tunings to slide arrangements to original compositions with both traditional and selfstyled licks.
One of his musical heros, dave van ronk, once described himself to me as a songster. Bookbinding lesson timmy roselles teaching portfolio. If youre ready to develop your own distinctive blues style, roy book binder has assembled a complete vocabulary of licks and techniques to help you do it. The lessons, naomi aldermans second novel, is reminiscent of donna tartts famous the secret history featuring a young and naive narrator from a relatively poor background, who enrolls in at a prestigious university tartts is located in a sleepy vermont town where he falls in with a group of quirky, overly privileged and rich young people, and learns their ways by participating in the. Roy book binder learned to play the blues from rev. Facebook is showing information to help you better understand the purpose of a page. Musically, roy book binder is equally difficult to fence in or categorize. Roy book binder roy has been described as a guitar pickin hillbilly bluesman. Gary davis, he is equally at home with blues and ragtime. He speaks fondly of van ronk, who strongly influenced book binder to become a professional musician. Get roy book binder setlists view them, share them, discuss them with other roy book binder fans for free on. Roys blues book the songs and fingerstyle guitar arrangements of roy book binder. His storytelling emphasis is another characteristic that makes his style unique. A sample from blues by the book fingerpicking blues lesson 1 available as an instant download here.
Roy book binder guitar artistry of roy book binder. He is known to shift from open tunings to slide arrangements to original compositions, with both traditional and selfstyled licks. Shop for vinyl, cds and more from roy book binder at the discogs marketplace. Click on a month below to view the newsletter acrobat reader required, or rightclick to save to your computer. Cd homespun tapes, hal leonard, homespun tapes, hal leonard. His eclectic repertoire includes blues, country tunes, bluegrass, folk, and popular songs that originated on tin pan alley. An often stirring folkblues guitarist and vocalist, roy book binder has been playing country blues since the mid60s, when he began recording for blue goose. To purchase tickets please call our partners at the craftsman house gallery. Roy humbly calls this thorough breakdown of the elements of his own fingerstyle blues style some tricks about playing the guitar, but dont let his laconic delivery fool you. Back in the 60s he began his career, traveling and learning guitar from the legendary rev. The songs are fun to learn, with their bluesragtime fingerpicking, movable chord shapes and. Full subscription includes guitar both electric and acoustic, bass, mandolin, and musical theory like how to play in a band, tuning the guitar and more. Aug 23, 2004 free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Roy starts his lesson with an exploration of open d, or vestapol.
Jun 25, 2010 roy book binder stumbled on it by accident when he returned to new york city in 1966 from his volunteer stint in the navy, and heard an old black blues singer at a small club in greenwich village. He fantasizes that if he had been born 50 years earlier, he would have become a minstrel man. Fill out the form below and we will be in touch within 24hrs to take your credit card payment and confirm your lesson date. Legendary bluesman roy book binder takes you step by step through 10 of his original tunes from his latest release, the good book. Countryblues troubadour roy book binder stopped by the acoustic guitar sessions studio to perform songs from his 20 album the good book on his own label pegleg records. If i could just find a damn wifi connection up here in the mountains of connecticut, i could get some business done. Roy book binder has been on the road and playing country blues for audiences since the blues revival of the 60s, when he was a student of rev. His storytelling is another characteristic that makes his style unique. Gary davis, roy book binder is a blues guitar entertainer. Roy hession has 27 books on goodreads with 2841 ratings.
Roy book, md is an addiction psychiatry specialist in raleigh, nc and has been practicing for 20 years. Each lesson consists of a performance, explanation, and split screen segment where roy plays the composition at a slower pace. Roy hessions most popular book is the calvary road. Roy book binder biography, albums, streaming links allmusic. Book a lesson life is short, book a kiteboarding lesson with us today. But to book binder, theres only one thing that matters when he takes the stage. Always wanted to sit down with the book and learn a few tunes. Roy book binder bought his first guitar in naples, heard his first lightnin hopkins record in marseille and read his first jack kerouac novels while cruising the north atlantic. It was 1965, and after three years of sailing around the world on an aircraft carrier with the u. Countryblues troubadour roy book binder stopped by the acoustic guitar sessions studio to perform songs from his 20 album the good.
Roy book binder, legendary ragtime blues guitar playing folksinger from new york has been on the road for 50 years. Roy book binders lessons from the good book sample. Roy book binder is a treasure as a guitar teacher and if you only learn one song from this dvd, you will have learned not simply a great song, and a fun song, but more so, you will have learned to improvise and enjoy your guitar as roy encourages you to take chances, invent, and enjoy yourself. Roy book binder an introduction to open tunings and slide. Jun 20, 20 roy book binder learned blues guitar at the foot of the rev. Roy book binder has been rambling around the world for the past 45 years.
This book presents traditional and original blues tunes that have delighted his audiences for years. Oscars best picture winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comic con sundance film festival toronto intl film festival awards central festival central all events. The inestimable roy book binder has given us another terrific look at his. He graduated from mercer university school of medicine in 1996 and specializes in addiction psychiatry. Roy book binder was on his cell phone, driving his 21foot camper on the way to his next gig. He ran in greenwich village circles with the likes of dave van ronk, and he learned songs from one of his heroes pink anderson.
Roy book binder performing at the woody guthrie festival 2015. With all of that traveling and performing, hes had a lot of time to perfect his stage routine. Stream adfree or purchase cds and mp3s now on amazon. All roy book binder lyrics sorted by popularity, with video and meanings. Roy book binder blues by the book lesson 1 download.