Mike Bloomfield - The Root Of Blues (1976) [CD Rip]

An instructional blues LP released by Guitar Player magazine in 1976, The Root of the Blues pays tribute to Bloomfield's influences and favorites: acoustic and electric, solo and with a band. Standout tracks include "Death in My Family," played in the style of Guitar Slim, "WDIA," a tribute to B.B. King, "City Girl," dedicated to T-Bone Walker, and an acoustic version of "Kansas City," played, in Bloomfield's words, "in a style I would call 'Travis Picking'," after Merle Travis. It seems an anomaly to use a modern style for such an old song, but the method of syncopated contrapuntal fingerpicking is well suited to the song because the key of E has so many open strings." ~Jan Mark Wolkin