Tampa Red
Information about bottleneck blues guitarist Tampa Red including brief biography, selected discography, and guitar lessons to study his playing style.
Brief Bio
Hudson Woodbridge was born in 1908 or earlier (he claimed to have been born on Christmas day, 1908) in Smithville, Georgia.
He was one of the prime purveyors of a popular music style of the time called "hokum", a precursor of the Chicago blues with lyrical themes that tended to revolve around the subjects of bootlegging and sexual promiscuity. Some of his most well-known songs are "It's Tight Like That" and "Can't Get That Stuff No More", and "When Things Go Wrong For You (It Hurts Me Too)".
His instrument of choice was a National resonator guitar, but he did use electric guitars as well in his later years.
Other famous guitarists who were strongly influenced by Tampa Red's playing style include Elmore James and B.B. King.
Selected Discography
Early recordings: These were issued on now-defunct record labels but all of his recorded material has been re-released on several excellent compilations.
Don't Jive with Me - originally released in 1961, currently in print on the OBC label.
Don't Tampa with the Blues - Also originally released in 1961, also available now on the OBC label.
These and other Tampa Red CD's are available online at AMAZON.
You can download Tampa Red songs at Yahoo MUSIC UNLIMITED.
Guitar Lessons
There are currently no Tampa Red sheet music collections in print, but here is a selection of excellent instructional materials for learning how to play bottleneck blues guitar:
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Complete Country Blues Guitar Book
Complete Fingerpicking Blues Guitar Solos taught By Stefan Grossman. For Beginning to Intermediate guitar players. Book and CD Set Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
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Anyone Can Play Bottleneck Blues Guitar
Slide/Bottleneck Guitar Taught by James Van Nuys on a 60 minute DVD. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
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Play The Blues Guitar: A Dick Weissman Method
Instructional book For Guitar. Includes a high-quality printed music book, filled with explanatory text, photographs and diagrams, and a narrated compact disc featuring every exercise and composition in the method book. Published by Music Minus One.
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Learn to Play Bottleneck Blues Guitar
Instructional DVD by Bob Brozman. Published by Homespun Video.
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Legends of Bottleneck Blues Guitar
58 minute DVD Featuring Son House, Fred McDowell, Mance Lipscomb, Johnny Shines, Furry Lewis, and Jesse Fuller. For Guitar (Slide/Bottleneck). Published by Grossman's Guitar Workshop.
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Bottleneck Blues Guitar
Taught by Stefan Grossman. Fingerpicking Blues Guitar. Level: Beginner to Intermediate. Book and CD Set. Published by Grossman's Guitar Workshop.
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Acoustic Masters Series: Bob Brozman's Bottleneck Blues Guitar
By Bob Brozman. Acoustic Masters Guitar Instruction Series. Book & CD. Published by Alfred Publishing.
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Learn to Play Bottleneck Blues Guitar
DVD 1: The Basics. By Bob Brozman. Published by Homespun Video.
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