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This comprehensive book has 260 pages and over 50 fingerpicking guitar solos in notation and tablature in country blues, Delta blues, ragtime blues, Texas blues and bottleneck styles. An extremely comprehensive blues solo collection.

Eric Thompson's strong, melodic picking has set a benchmark for taste and tone for nearly four decades. Eric teaches 16 of his favorite old-time fiddle tunes, which are the bedrock upon which acoustic guitar flatpicking is built. They are all included in the 32-page book and three companion CDs of note-by-note, phrase-by-phrase instruction. Some of the classics included are 'Blackberry Blossom', 'Ragtime Annie', 'Texas Gals', 'Billy in the Lowland', and many more.

We've updated this fake book for a fourth edition to ensure that it remains the best ever! Features melody lines, lyrics and chords for 1000+ essential songs: Amazed • At the Hop • Autumn Leaves • Bohemian Rhapsody • Cabaret • California Girls • Centerfold • Chariots of Fire • Crazy • Dust in the Wind • Earth Angel • Eleanor Rigby • Fever • Fire and Rain • From a Distance • Hello, Dolly! • Hey Jude • I Am Woman • Imagine • Joy to the World • Kansas City • La Bamba • Lady • Linus and Lucy • Longer • Me and Bobby McGee • Meditation • Misty • More • More Than Words • My Way • Oye Como Va • Peggy Sue • The Rainbow Connection • Respect • Route 66 • Shout • Spanish Eyes • Stormy Weather • Take Five • Thriller • Time in a Bottle • Unchained Melody • Wave • The Way We Were • Wonderful Tonight • Y.M.C.A. • You've Got a Friend • and hundreds more! Editions also available in B-flat and E-flat.

Two dozen songs are presented in this centennial edition saluting jazz musician and singer/songwriter Billie Holiday. It includes piano/vocal/guitar arrangements of: Billie's Blues (I Love My Man) • Crazy He Calls Me • Don't Explain • Easy Living • God Bless' the Child • Good Morning Heartache • I'll Be Seeing You • Lady Sings the Blues • Now or Never • Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time) • Strange Fruit • Them There Eyes • and more.