Ernie Hawkins

Rev. Gary Davis was a musical genius, bridging the gaps between blues, ragtime, folk, gospel, marching songs and tin pan alley hits. In this series of four lessons Ernie Hawkins teaches fourteen of Re...

Rev. Gary Davis is the real thing. The authentic blind-seer. He is a genius with a brightly burning spirit, enormous musical intelligence, technical brilliance, an encyclopedic memory, driving passion...

Ernie Hawkins's long experience in country blues fingerpicking establishes the path for continuing his in-depth exploration of the C-A-G-E-D Guitar System. He shows how the basic 12-bar blues progress...

Ernie Hawkins uses the amazing C-A-G-E-D System when playing his specialty - blues and ragtime tunes in alternate-thumb fingerpicking style. On his third lesson, Ernie explores blues melodies as they...

Rev. Gary Davis was an incredible ragtime guitar player. His arrangements illustrate what has become known as the Piedmont guitar style. As a young man Rev. Davis played in a string band with the lege...

The tab / music booklet is included as a PDF on the DVD. Rev. Gary Davis had an enormous repertoire that spanned from gospel to blues, rags to fok tunes and old minstrel show songs. In this double DVD...

In this lesson Ernie Hawkins teaches three Rev. Davis arrangements that will challenge your fingers. Rev. Gary Davis's tour de force in concert was his Soldiers March. This is a multipart instrumental...

For many years Ernie Hawkins has been playing concerts, clubs, festivals, colleges and museums in the United States, Canada, Europe and Japan. He has played with blues greats such as Son House, Mance...

The genius country bluesman/songwriter Mance Lipscomb, was the most accomplished of the 'dead-thumb' guitarists whose solid driving bass propelled his dance-like, spontaneous melodies through song aft...