Stefan Grossman plays "Mississippi Blues" 1981

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  • Опубликовано: 7 ноя 2007
  • Stefan Grossman plays "Mississippi Blues." Filmed in the US in 1981, this clip is from the DVD "The Guitar Artistry of Stefan Grossman." More info at www.guitarvideos.com/#!/Guita...
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  • @drbogenbroom2000
    @drbogenbroom2000 15 лет назад +21

    I will say something that will sound like a cliché but the truth is that people like Stefan Grossman are the ones that are responsible for making our world a better place to live. There is such a great amount of positive energy coming from his books, cd's, dvd's... He is a beautiful person.

  • @davidskerritt9530
    @davidskerritt9530 4 месяца назад +7

    I saw him playing in 1967 (Ware, Hertford, UK). He was a complete entertainer. No words can do justice to what he could do on the guitar and the audience.

  • @danielpoissant2091
    @danielpoissant2091 5 лет назад +26

    A great guitar player, a great entertainer, a great teacher, what else? M Grossman, thanks for everything you've done for guitar players.

  • @duelenigma7732
    @duelenigma7732 Месяц назад +1

    So many blues players learned from this man . Thank you Stefan .

  • @jamescassidy3995
    @jamescassidy3995 4 года назад +20

    Just gorgeous playing - & amazing to watch the back of Stefan’s shirt & back of his head whilst his fingers are doing magical stuff.

  • @clivemorwood164
    @clivemorwood164 7 лет назад +141

    I've begun to hate any kind of social media. Everyone's a critic these days. 'this is shit' 'he can't play' 'he can only play blues' blah blah blah. Would any of these people say this to Stefan Grossman's face? No, I didn't think so. A great player. a tremendous ambassador for the guitar, and he's met many of the great blues players. I met him briefly, he is one of the nicest people I have met and was the main reason why I still play guitar after forty years. Why don't these so called guitar fans/players just watch, enjoy and if you don't like it, go somewhere else and keep your opinions to yourselves.

    • @andrealuciani3083
      @andrealuciani3083 7 лет назад +2

      I totally agree

    • @haroldsteinblatt2567
      @haroldsteinblatt2567 7 лет назад +7

      "He's not the greatest guitarist" - it's true, but who cares; he is excellent. More important to me is the fact that thanks to this man I discovered, fell in love with, and am still riveted by music that has given me more joy than I can ever describe.

    • @clivemorwood164
      @clivemorwood164 7 лет назад +3

      Bravo.

    • @Drogers8675
      @Drogers8675 7 лет назад +7

      Because most people are cruel and jealous at their core and it is easier to express their loathsome cowardly opinions from their basements on the internet.

    • @jonathanboudreault
      @jonathanboudreault 7 лет назад +3

      Thanks Clive for your comment. I totally agree, Grossman is an ambassador for the guitar.

  • @chrishartz2397
    @chrishartz2397 2 года назад +8

    Stefan Grossman is a fabulous player, musician, teacher, and great guy.

  • @RealDiaz
    @RealDiaz 5 лет назад +34

    Stefan has been my go to guy for acoustic blues for 40 yrs now.

    • @ianedmonds9191
      @ianedmonds9191 2 года назад +1

      Phenomenal on so many levels.
      A delta Blues historian and preservist.
      Crazy talented player and researcher of a largely unwritten body of work that would have been lost if he hadn't learned and performed it in the internet age.
      Top job Stefan Grossman.
      I've got a recording of one of his gigs and it's insanely entertaining. He's so personable and humorous with the audience and also has so much facility with the tunes to be able to translate them into whatever style of era he chooses.
      Truly a virtuoso picker.
      Luv and Peace.

  • @ibtm
    @ibtm 13 лет назад +3

    Stefan lives in Sparta Nj and Iived close to him----and I am pleased to say he is one fantastic person in addition to being one of the best pickers of all time---and has the deepest knowledge base and respect for all those that came before him. WORLD CLASS GUY!!!! And his wife is too!!!! Play on Stefan!!!!!

  • @joesjoes20
    @joesjoes20 13 лет назад +12

    His playing in amazing

  • @SuperOlds88
    @SuperOlds88 10 лет назад +23

    Thank God for people like Alan Lomax and Stefan Grossman so I could learn to play this stuff. Certainly a lot of other people responsible too but these two come to mind first, and Happy Traum and his wife.. Thank you for all you have done.

  • @colmonic
    @colmonic 14 лет назад +7

    If you could play all the shred, sweep picked, tapping diminshed7th arpeggio, alternate picking 300bpm stuff that has ever existed it would NEVER captivate people in the same way this does. It's just so cool and listenable.

  • @ianedmonds9191
    @ianedmonds9191 2 года назад +2

    I was introduced to Stefan Grossman from a fan of his at Uni. We're still good friends. He could cover a few of the tunes Grossman played pretty well. I was blown away.
    I'm also a guitarist but more of a van halen type guitarist.
    I love the fact that Stefan ios tracking down old American delta blues songs and preserving them.
    It truly is an amazing act of Cultural preservation. If no-one new learns them they are gone forever.
    We have a similar tradition in Scotland of Folk songs learnt by ear and 1-1 tuition. The folk tradition thrives here and I'm glad the same is happening in the states.
    Luv and Peace.

  • @Tocsin-Bang
    @Tocsin-Bang 3 года назад +2

    First heard Stefan Grossman at Maria Grey College of Education in London 1970 or 71. Sadly there were very few in the audience, but it was one of the finest concerts I ever went to. He got his first applause when he tuned his guitar.

  • @juansastre1729
    @juansastre1729 3 года назад +3

    The guy who taught me the blues! Amazing!

  • @stefanweldon
    @stefanweldon 14 лет назад +5

    this man is simply AMAZING plus he has an awesome first name

    • @bobthabuilda1525
      @bobthabuilda1525 3 года назад +3

      Its been ten years but man your comment is funny is shit when one reads your name

  • @classicalbunny
    @classicalbunny 5 лет назад +11

    What a great video! I think the first time I heard this I was maybe 14. Back in the mid 70s took guitar lessons at Elderly Instruments from a guy named Jeff Hollingsworth and he could play this song to a bloody pulp. I learned it from him with the help of the Stefan Grossman tab in a little spiral bound photocopy book from Kicking Mule, I think...can’t really remember now. But the little syncopations used to be so fascinating to me in this ditty and I would listen to Jeff play it and go home trying to remember it and it was so hard to remember all the little nuances. I’m sure that I wasn’t playing it completely right, but it made my dad think I was a guitar hero. So cool to finally watch Stefan Grossman play it on this old video. He really owned it! Gotta listen to some more of his videos. Maybe one day I can relearn to pick it and do it right.

    • @dansalmon8261
      @dansalmon8261 3 года назад +1

      To this day I have that book and I got it from kicking mule records after ordering it of off the album “How to play the blues” volume 1. There is a volume 2 also

  • @ally9904
    @ally9904 7 лет назад +6

    Stefan Grossman's Kicking Mule records in the eighties brought a wealth of fingerstyle blues, ragtime, jazz, folk, bluegrass, Irish etc. arrangements within the reach of the self taught guitarist. Wonderful. And the reason now why I can entertain myself by twanging Mississippi Blues on my own guitar. I was lucky enough to see him play it live at the Glenda Jackson Theatre in Birkenhead (now demolished along with the college)

    • @VcafeVernon
      @VcafeVernon 6 лет назад

      Alastair, I saw him in Birkenhead also, but I think I saw him at Birkenhead Town Hall with John Renbourn. I had also attended his afternoon workshop which was stunning! Would have been 1984 or 1985 - Wirral International Guitar Festival.

  • @c_farther5208
    @c_farther5208 3 года назад +3

    Enjoyed this so much! Wonderful.

  • @alexgramm5170
    @alexgramm5170 7 лет назад +7

    Right on,brother. Tremendous ambassador for guitar and blues music.

  • @JoelBiger
    @JoelBiger 9 лет назад +8

    Absolutely stunning !

  • @taildragger53
    @taildragger53 13 лет назад +5

    He was my inspiration around 1970. A superb musician. Loved his LP "Hot Dogs!!"
    I think he bears a striking resemblance here to James Lipton (The "Actors Studio" host)

  • @cliffporter5021
    @cliffporter5021 6 лет назад +3

    He inspires me because he's damn good. I would love to have a teacher with his personality one on one. He's as good as teaching as he is at performing. Makes learning easy. Five stars to you brother!

  • @seanr521
    @seanr521 5 лет назад +3

    Beautifully done. Loving the narration he does - really adds great entertainment to it.

  • @TRKTKO
    @TRKTKO 6 лет назад +2

    Man you have it going on Stefan! Burning it up! Play it brother!

  • @thomaswalz3515
    @thomaswalz3515 7 лет назад +26

    Aaahh... I learned this tunr in '77, coming down from a most wonderful acid trip, like Stephan, pulled an all-nighter. Been playing it ever since. This tune is a must-learn for anyone taking on fingerstyle guitar.
    Observation: Notice how polite the audience is. Back then, people actually listened to performers instead of talking over them. I watched this happen in the 90's, as a full-time pro musician. As computers and cell phones became prominent, the public's attention span went from digging the scene, to... "me, me, me.... let me tell you about me. .. oh... and then more about me. .. gee, wish that musician wasn't so loud, I want to talk about me, inconsiderate bastard."

    • @milovanbeljin9964
      @milovanbeljin9964 6 лет назад +4

      I was lucky to be in the audience that night. Thanks to Stefan I discovered this wonderful guitar music.

  • @richardmindemann6935
    @richardmindemann6935 6 месяцев назад

    Stefan is a great player and teacher. Big respect for him.

  • @salsageordie
    @salsageordie 6 лет назад +1

    I learned to play this by means of a CD and tab in 2010 as a new years resolution .Play it all the time as a warm up .

  • @korkars
    @korkars 16 лет назад +1

    Thanks Teacher!

  • @plankspanker145
    @plankspanker145 14 лет назад +2

    I attended Stefan's Blues workshop in Sparta,NJ and this was one of many old blues songs that I learned and love playing to this day. GREAT TIME and a great talent and teacher.

  • @babebabe3760
    @babebabe3760 2 года назад

    Maaannnnn, that's some good jams right there. Love that stuff

  • @normanwylie1530
    @normanwylie1530 2 года назад

    I have new found inspiration. A big thanx for all your sharing of know how

  • @muhrvis
    @muhrvis 10 лет назад +1

    Wonderful version of this tune!

  • @fly9wheel
    @fly9wheel 2 года назад +2

    This man's a genius.

  • @DavidG-tm1yv
    @DavidG-tm1yv 3 года назад +3

    This is my dad and none of you know how fucking great he is as a guitarists and as a dad...

    • @GlindaQuadling
      @GlindaQuadling 3 года назад

      Well, we now know what a hostile toilet-mouth YOU are . . .

  • @louis6720
    @louis6720 5 лет назад +1

    stefan is a great inspiration

  • @fdspokane
    @fdspokane 15 лет назад

    Stunningly good ! Thanks much !
    Willie Brown is nodding his approval, and Mississippi John Hurt is smiling too.

  • @trevorsneath4665
    @trevorsneath4665 5 лет назад +1

    He's never been my favourite guitar player, BUT, without his dedication to the blues and ragtime guitar my world would have been a lot poorer. And my playing too.
    I've not been a fan of his own compositions, but they are undeniably well thought out and executed. However, his dedication to bringing the blues guitar to the world is unsurpassed. His first album with Rory Block was an album I was very excited to get. It had a tab book! I had just learned to finger-pick with my first ever attempt being the relatively easy Rev Davis - Delia. I got this from a Stefan Grossman book. There were no others, not for a long while. And being in Australia, it was even harder to find learning material that was a bit off the mainstream. That first album basically became my repertoire of finger-picking music, and it taught me a lot of the signature blues passages , which then allowed me to start learning others by ear because those passages gave me 'an in' to what was being done.
    I might not like his originals, but I owe him a huge debt of gratitude for all he has done to bring the blues and ragtime guitar to us. And look at his Guitar Workshop!
    Bravo Stefan.

    • @lionelstoodley
      @lionelstoodley 4 года назад

      I agree with you entirely. I doubt I would ever have learned to play blues without him as there were no other learning resources available back in the '70s & '80s.

  • @paulcooper5748
    @paulcooper5748 9 лет назад +1

    sooo beutiful i could listen all day.

  • @adampapadam7764
    @adampapadam7764 3 года назад

    Amazing and superb!

  • @MrsMiddenfaceMcNulty
    @MrsMiddenfaceMcNulty 14 лет назад

    Mr Grossman. I salute you. Brilliant. I am trying to play Mississippi Blues - it will take me a while. Thanks for posting this.

  • @LawrieBee
    @LawrieBee 14 лет назад +1

    Rolling Stones Magazine has go to put Stefan in their top 10 guitarists list. He has taught so many and has been an inspiration to even more..

  • @judy8117
    @judy8117 5 лет назад

    NOT BLUE AFTER,HEARING YOU PLAY, FANTASTIC♥️🐾♥️🐾♥️🐾♥️

  • @IOYC
    @IOYC 14 лет назад

    Truly an inspirational guy. Thankyou Stefan! These Guitar Workshop clips are absolutely amazing.

  • @karlgreenblatt1477
    @karlgreenblatt1477 2 месяца назад

    So clean

  • @tonymiles5857
    @tonymiles5857 6 лет назад

    Why so many dislikes? Are those from people who realise they will never come close to anything like Stefan's musicianship?

  • @j.michaelnewlight2953
    @j.michaelnewlight2953 7 лет назад

    Unbelievably excellent.

  • @John8Linda
    @John8Linda 15 лет назад

    Simply awesome, and entertaining.

  • @patsyohulaghan
    @patsyohulaghan 13 лет назад

    seriously how can you dislike this..7 people dont appreciate good music...for shame..:(

  • @billybudd45
    @billybudd45 7 лет назад +3

    A TRUE MASTER.

  • @weskuo
    @weskuo 2 года назад

    Fantastic! 還好有透過攝影機錄下, 1981年,40年前的錄影,到今天來看 真是非常經典!

  • @davidtilley3849
    @davidtilley3849 3 года назад

    Really great! Love it. 😊

  • @bobwright9516
    @bobwright9516 7 лет назад

    Great stuff i've been trying to master the Acoustic Blues for ages now and learn something new all the time but the likes of Grossman, Jansch, Renbourne, Phelps ect they are just outstanding players. brilliant

  • @daveevans1410
    @daveevans1410 7 лет назад

    Brilliant performance ...

  • @TeamHash
    @TeamHash 6 лет назад

    Awesome. Love it!

  • @rinomino73
    @rinomino73 13 лет назад

    this is amazing!!!!

  • @frillisgone
    @frillisgone 2 года назад

    Wonderful!!

  • @alcore3
    @alcore3 14 лет назад

    great song and great teacher

  • @loudoniii
    @loudoniii 4 месяца назад

    I love it! 🤩

  • @thomastjb
    @thomastjb 16 лет назад

    Extraordinary. Wonderful...

  • @monkeyandcuckoo
    @monkeyandcuckoo 9 лет назад +1

    damn..how i love blues

  • @threechorder
    @threechorder 15 лет назад

    Outstanding!

  • @richardcorysghost
    @richardcorysghost 13 лет назад +1

    Don't know if you'll get to see this comment or not, Stefan, but that was BRILLIANT! Thanks for posting. I'm a student of the Fingerstyle Blues & Acoustic slide with ambitions to learn this tune myself, regardless of how long it takes me.

  • @ElMcMeen1a
    @ElMcMeen1a 5 лет назад

    Love this!

  • @KBerny63
    @KBerny63 14 лет назад

    L'ho sentito dal vivo a Milano, troppo bravo!!!

  • @edshift
    @edshift 14 лет назад

    Hats off to my esteemed friend Bil.
    Thx for that Bil.
    Eternally grateful for introducing me to Steffan Grossman.
    I think this might be the concert that you had the audio off.
    Gonna go looking for Candyman now.
    :-)))))

  • @BryceShuster
    @BryceShuster 14 лет назад

    Talent like no other

  • @undeadtrev
    @undeadtrev 11 лет назад

    It's fantastic

  • @juanchamorro9924
    @juanchamorro9924 2 года назад

    Long life Stefan Grossman!!

  • @thereagauze
    @thereagauze 16 лет назад

    beautiful

  • @josephlemko3027
    @josephlemko3027 4 года назад +1

    Been a fan since I bought a copy of "Crosscurrants" an album that he recorded with Danny Kalb.

  • @TCGUITAR
    @TCGUITAR 12 лет назад

    This is the classic rendition!

  • @DeltaJazzUK
    @DeltaJazzUK Год назад

    No one plays Mississippi Blues like Stefan...

  • @johnnyvlimki2389
    @johnnyvlimki2389 11 лет назад

    How can anyone dislike this!?

  • @Gill.L
    @Gill.L 7 месяцев назад

    Wow ❤

  • @taildragger53
    @taildragger53 13 лет назад +1

    I recall learning it from his now ancient instructional LP "Blues & Ragtime Guitar" which came with a tablature booklet(very rare for an LP back then).
    It was originally done by SG in the key of "A".
    Took me alot longer than just two nights though.

  • @talstory
    @talstory 12 лет назад

    great stuff!!

  • @anexmassorn
    @anexmassorn 9 лет назад

    Fantastic

  • @gbeck1114
    @gbeck1114 11 лет назад +1

    How lucky he was to study with the amazing Reverend Gary Davis!!!!!! Wish I could have been a fly on the wall for those sessions.

  • @Erik-Zeelie
    @Erik-Zeelie 11 лет назад

    JUST LOVE IT !!!!

  • @NandoBattiati
    @NandoBattiati 3 года назад

    Great song great player

  • @clearyourthirdeye
    @clearyourthirdeye 11 лет назад

    stellar!

  • @Labrabob
    @Labrabob 12 лет назад

    YAY!!! Stefan Grossman.

  • @carbomarcello1
    @carbomarcello1 14 лет назад +1

    thank my master. buy to Marcello in Frascati Italy.

  • @realpowerinvest
    @realpowerinvest 2 года назад

    He's my master and ever he will be

  • @s.w.9684
    @s.w.9684 5 лет назад

    Good golly,this here,to me,is glorious.This is i guess retro in a way,timeless in another.Interestingly great music and a great player of course.

  • @shade257
    @shade257 16 лет назад

    I really wanna play like this :((
    This really got me motivated to practice allot more my guitar skills.

  • @LocoPCtheoneandonly
    @LocoPCtheoneandonly 16 лет назад

    SMOOOOOOOTH LIKE BUTTER ***** stars

  • @Mntgoatsfan
    @Mntgoatsfan 12 лет назад

    His fingers never leaves his hands!!!!

  • @nemoco99
    @nemoco99 2 года назад

    Magic!

  • @jjiacobucci
    @jjiacobucci Год назад

    The one and only Stefan Grossman

  • @jamesporth6094
    @jamesporth6094 6 лет назад

    He could play then and today he still can strut his stuff!

  • @tataso
    @tataso 13 лет назад

    This is real country blues man !!

  • @seanr521
    @seanr521 13 лет назад

    love this defo

  • @JakeWilder0
    @JakeWilder0 3 года назад +3

    That's a Euphonon guitar. A very rare bird, and it sounds great...

  • @adobedirtblues1321
    @adobedirtblues1321 3 года назад

    Hi difficulty. All those walking bass lines while playing the high strings. But so smooth. No sound of a struggle, that’s the key.

  • @agustinvidalmusic
    @agustinvidalmusic 4 года назад

    master of the guitar

  • @BrettPenza
    @BrettPenza 14 лет назад

    Here's the master folk version of Mississippi Blues. This is one of the few artists I would pay to see perform. ...

  • @ruthdixon7807
    @ruthdixon7807 11 месяцев назад

    another american folk-blues legend with an astonishing picking technique.

  • @pauldockree9915
    @pauldockree9915 4 месяца назад

    Great Guitarist