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The Dao of Acoustic Jerry Garcia: The Grateful Dead leader’s guitar playing traveled a long and complex road that begins in the dusty fields of American music. Here’s your guide to Jerry’s acoustic side, from the Black Mountain Boys to Workman’s Dead to Dawg.
For guitarists, ragtime can be a joyful excursion filled with fun and quirky moves. I’ve taken inspiration from Blind Blake, Blind Boy Fuller, and the Reverend Gary Davis to piece together a composition I call “Pete’s Barrelhouse Rag.”
In the folk music boom in New York in the 1960s, the music of guitarist Mississippi John Hurt was a huge influence on players like Happy Traum, John Sebastian, and others.