This is part one of a acoustic blues guitar lesson on the song "Poor Boy is a long ways from home" also called Po Boy or just Poor Boy. This is in a Open D tuning : D A D F# A D
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GUITAR INSTRUCTION: Delta Blues is a musical genre, which helped create a musical identity for America. Until the late 1800s, American music consisted of recycled European music. When African-American slaves carried the rhythms and music from their homeland in West Africa to the southern plantations of America the Blues was born. Older posts accessed by link at lower right of the page.