Roots and Blues Fingerstyle Guitar Explorations: Waltz, Breakdown, and the Blues – An American Guitar Story

The first part of “Spanish Fandango,” a 19th-century American guitar classic, was included in the first Roots and Blues Fingerstyle Guitar book, where it was contrasted with a slide guitar version adapted from the playing of West Virginia songster Frank Hutchison. This time the original, composed by Henry Worrall, is paired with an even more variant canticle from a man who was literally a giant in old- time country music—John Dilleshaw, the Georgia string band leader who recorded this complex hillbilly symphony, was known as Seven Foot Dilly