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In 1971, I got a job working for Bob Baxter in Los Angeles making guitar transcriptions for his "Baxter Books" publications on how to play finger style guitar. Bob was an owner of McCabe's in Santa Monica, CA, and deeply involved in the local music scene. This piece is one of my transcriptions: The Entertainer, a Scott Joplin piano rag. The rag was orchestrated by Marvin Hamlisch and made famou...

My rendition of Mississippi John Hurt's classic. Hurt was arguably the most influential blues guitarist of my generation, and this graphic tale one of his most memorable. Played on a 1935 Gibson L-Century guitar.

I call this one "Krazy Kat Rag", named after George Harriman's famous cartoon strip character. It's short and sweet; I hope you enjoy it!

Friends, my version of Kerry Mills' "At a Georgia Camp Meeting", 1896. An early ragtime piano (and ragtime orchestra) piece. I don't repeat the sections as he did, so the piece is shorter...

My take on one of Lightnin' Hopkins' best. I had the good fortune to see him live at a small club in Los Angeles, in 1967.

My treatment of the great Willie Brown's fingerstyle standard, Mississippi Blues, which Alan Lomax recorded for the Library of Congress in 1942. Brown's guitar style is so impressive that most performers don't sing the lyrics. Enjoy.

A meditative composition first released on my 2007 CD, "Blues for the Muse".

My instrumental arrangement of the iconic Scottish ballad "The Water is Wide".

Innocence is an original composition first released on my 2011 CD "Instrumental Guitar". Enjoy!

A recent composition reminiscent of the tunes of the 50's and 60's. The melody is lyrical I wish I had a lyricist!

I hope you enjoy my New England Rag, named after my adopted home! Recorded on a 1931 Martin OM-18.

My arrangement of Rev. Gary Davis' "Please Baby", which formed the basis for Bob Dylan's "Baby Let Me Follow You Down".

A R&B classic by Jessie Mae Robinson, first recorded by T-Bone Walker. Tell it like it is, Jessie Mae!

An instrumental composition celebrating the Spanish influence of southwestern music I heard growing up in California and Texas. I wrote it when working in a second story loft in old North Side Fort Worth, TX, making cowboy boots alongside first-generation Mexican-American bootmakers and saddlemakers. Raymond and the Vasquez brothers, Clyde and Joe, this is a salute to you! Played on a 1934 Mart...

There She Goes

West Coast Blues

Going Down Slow

Deep River Blues

Bobby Brown's Blues

Holly Dark as a Dungeon

Hwy 61 Captain my Captain

That's All Right

99 Year Blues

Night Time is the Right Time

If You're Goin' to the City

Victory Rag

Worried Life Blues

Hesitation Blues

Starlight Evening