Genre: West Coast Blues
More piano-based and jazz-influenced than anything else, West Coast Blues is -- in actuality -- the California style, with all of the genre's main practitioners coming to prominence there, if not actual natives of the state in particular. In fact, the state and the style played host to a great many post-war Texas guitar expatriates, and their jazzy, T-Bone Walker style of soloing would become an earmark of the genre. (read more)
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Guitar Shorty: The Long And Short Of It: The Best Of Guitar Shorty
2006 Shout Factory
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