Name: This Old Caravan
Description: A fantastic instrumental from a master acoustic guitar player, the inimitable Tim Sparks.

A fantastic instrumental from a master acoustic guitar player, the inimitable Tim Sparks.

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SANDOR SAZABO is a pioneer and master of the unique 16 String Acoustic Guitar. A guitar that sounds like no other guitar you have ever heard. The instrument has a resonance and harmonic depth to it that allows the guitar player to cover unchartered guitar territory. Here Sandor explains the theory and the art of 16 String guitar and his other love the rich sounding Acoustic Baritone Guitar. Visit Sandor Szabo at. AGW Artists Copyright acousticguitarworkshop.com

Song Info

Genre

Acoustic • Acoustic Guitar

Charts

Peak #85

Peak in subgenre #20

Rights

Tim Sparks

Uploaded

January 31, 2009

Track Files

MP3

MP3 4.3 MB • 128 kbps • 4:44

Story behind the song

Tim Sparks in rare form here with a gorgeous arrangement of a classic tune. 
This is part of Tim's ROOTS RAGS & BLUES 
CD ROM instruction package. 
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The collection of tunes on ROOTS RAGS & BLUES finds Tim Sparks returning to his own roots, the music he learned growing up in rural North Carolina. It was a world of tobacco fields, fire-breathing itinerant preachers, cornbread and collard greens, bluegrass and barbecue, moonshine on Saturday night and rapturous 
gospel singing on Sunday morning...and the country blues that seemed to come right up from the earth, out of the sun-baked, red clay Piedmont bottom land. 

Tim Sparks plays and explains new and original versions of three classic fingerstyle standards: Willie Brown's Mississippi Blues, Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag and The Victory Rag, made famous by Mother Maybelle Carter. In addition, he does a country gospel workout on Amazing Grace, shows some New Orleans style on the Original Jelly Roll Blues and finishes with a Klezmer classic recorded in the 1920's, Tanst Yiddlekh. 

Everything is presented using a fast-learning, cognitive approach featuring interactive video which shows both picking and fretting hand simultaneously. 

ROOTS RAGS & BLUES... 
PRODUCED BY ACOUSTIC GUITAR WORKSHOP 
The Acoustic Guitar Workshop specialises in acoustic guitar tuition, presenting packages on CDROM using computer friendly video formats, tablature, mp3... in fact everything the guitar student needs for a rewarding e-learning experience. ROOTS RAGS & BLUES is their latest production and is the fruit of much labour and collaboration with Tim Sparks, one of the leading exponents of fingerstyle guitar on the scene today. 

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