Freddie King Biography Where was he born? In autumn 1949, he and his family moved from Dallas to the South Side of Chicago. Did he have any siblings? I don't know.
when did he learn to play the guitar?
When did Freddie King learn to play the guitar?
According to his birth certificate he was named Fred King, and his parents were Ella Mae King and J. T. Christian. When Freddie was six years old, his mother and his uncle began teaching him to play the guitar. In autumn 1949, he and his family moved from Dallas to the South Side of Chicago.  In 1952 King started working in a steel mill. In the same year he married another Texas native, Jessie Burnett. They had seven children.  Almost as soon as he had moved to Chicago, King started sneaking into South Side nightclubs, where he heard blues performed by Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, T-Bone Walker, Elmore James, and Sonny Boy Williamson. King formed his first band, the Every Hour Blues Boys, with the guitarist Jimmie Lee Robinson and the drummer Frank "Sonny" Scott. In 1952, while employed at a steel mill, the eighteen-year-old King occasionally worked as a sideman with such bands as the Little Sonny Cooper Band and Earl Payton's Blues Cats. In 1953 he recorded with the latter for Parrot Records, but these recordings were never released. As the 1950s progressed, King played with several of Muddy Waters's sidemen and other Chicago mainstays, including the guitarists Jimmy Rogers, Robert Lockwood Jr., Eddie Taylor, and Hound Dog Taylor; the bassist Willie Dixon; the pianist Memphis Slim; and the harmonicist Little Walter.  In 1956 he cut his first record as a leader, for El-Bee Records. The A-side was "Country Boy", a duet with Margaret Whitfield. The B-side was a King vocal. Both tracks feature the guitar of Robert Lockwood, Jr., who during these years was also adding rhythm backing and fills to Little Walter's records.  King was repeatedly rejected in auditions for the South Side's Chess Records, the premier blues label, which was the home of Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter. The complaint was that King sang too much like B.B. King. A newer blues scene, lively with nightclubs and upstart record companies, was burgeoning on the West Side, though. The bassist and producer Willie Dixon, during a period of estrangement from Chess in the late 1950s, asked King to come to Cobra Records for a session, but the results have never been heard. Meanwhile, King established himself as perhaps the biggest musical force on the West Side. He played along with Magic Sam and reputedly played backing guitar, uncredited, on some of Sam's tracks for Mel London's Chief and Age labels, though King does not stand out on them. CANNOTANSWER
When Freddie was six years old, his mother and his uncle began teaching him to play the guitar.
Freddie King (September 3, 1934December 28, 1976) was an American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. He is considered one of the "Three Kings of the Blues Guitar" (along with Albert King and B.B. King, none of whom were blood related). Mostly known for his soulful and powerful voice and distinctive guitar playing, King had a major influence on electric blues music and on many later blues guitarists.

Born in Gilmer, Texas, King became acquainted with the guitar at the age of six. He started learning the guitar from his mother and his uncle. King moved to Chicago when he was a teenager; there he formed his first band the Every Hour Blues Boys with guitarist Jimmie Lee Robinson and drummer Frank "Sonny" Scott. As he was repeatedly being rejected by Chess Records, he got signed to Federal Records, and got his break with single "Have You Ever Loved a Woman" and instrumental "Hide Away", which reached number five on the Billboard magazine's rhythm and blues chart in 1961. It later became a blues standard. King based his guitar style on Texas blues and Chicago blues influences. The album Freddy King Sings showcased his singing talents and included the record chart hits "You've Got to Love Her with a Feeling" and "I'm Tore Down". He later became involved with more rhythm and blues and rock oriented producers and was one of the first bluesmen to have a multiracial backing band at live performances.
 
He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by ZZ Top in 2012 and into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1982. His instrumental "Hide Away" was included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's list of "500 Songs that Shaped Rock". He was ranked 25th in the Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 edition of "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and 15th in the 2011 edition.

Biography

1934–1952: Early life
According to his birth certificate he was named Fred King, and his parents were Ella Mae King and J. T. Christian. When Freddie was six years old, his mother and his uncle began teaching him to play the guitar. In autumn 1949, he and his family moved from Dallas to the South Side of Chicago.

In 1952 King started working in a steel mill. In the same year he married another Texas native, Jessie Burnett. They had seven children.

1952–1959: Move to Chicago and early works
Almost as soon as he had moved to Chicago, King started sneaking into South Side nightclubs, where he heard blues performed by Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, T-Bone Walker, Elmore James, and Sonny Boy Williamson. King formed his first band, the Every Hour Blues Boys, with the guitarist Jimmie Lee Robinson and the drummer Frank "Sonny" Scott. In 1952, while employed at a steel mill, the eighteen-year-old King occasionally worked as a sideman with such bands as the Little Sonny Cooper Band and Earl Payton's Blues Cats. In 1953 he recorded with the latter for Parrot Records, but these recordings were never released. As the 1950s progressed, King played with several of Muddy Waters's sidemen and other Chicago mainstays, including the guitarists Jimmy Rogers, Robert Lockwood Jr., Eddie Taylor, and Hound Dog Taylor; the bassist Willie Dixon; the pianist Memphis Slim; and the harmonicist Little Walter.

In 1956 he cut his first record as a leader, for El-Bee Records. The A-side was "Country Boy", a duet with Margaret Whitfield. The B-side was a King vocal. Both tracks feature the guitar of Robert Lockwood, Jr., who during these years was also adding rhythm backing and fills to Little Walter's records.

King was repeatedly rejected in auditions for the South Side's Chess Records, the premier blues label, which was the home of Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter. The complaint was that King sang too much like B.B. King. A newer blues scene, lively with nightclubs and upstart record companies, was burgeoning on the West Side, though. The bassist and producer Willie Dixon, during a period of estrangement from Chess in the late 1950s, asked King to come to Cobra Records for a session, but the results have never been heard. Meanwhile, King established himself as perhaps the biggest musical force on the West Side. He played along with Magic Sam and reputedly played backing guitar, uncredited, on some of Sam's tracks for Mel London's Chief and Age labels, though King does not stand out on them.

1959–1962: Federal Records
In 1959 King got to know Sonny Thompson, a pianist, producer, and A&R man for Cincinnati's King Records. King Records' owner, Syd Nathan, signed King to the subsidiary Federal Records in 1960. King recorded his debut single for the label on August 26, 1960: "Have You Ever Loved a Woman" backed with "You've Got to Love Her with a Feeling" (again credited as "Freddy" King). From the same recording session at the King Studios in Cincinnati, Ohio, King cut the instrumental "Hide Away", which the next year reached number five on the R&B chart and number 29 on the Pop chart, an unprecedented accomplishment for a blues instrumental at a time when the genre was still largely unknown to white audiences. It was originally released as the B-side of "I Love the Woman". "Hide Away" was King's melange of a theme by Hound Dog Taylor and parts by others, such as "The Walk", by Jimmy McCracklin, and "Peter Gunn", as credited by King. The title of the tune refers to Mel's Hide Away Lounge, a popular blues club on the West Side of Chicago. Willie Dixon later claimed that he had recorded King performing "Hide Away" for Cobra Records in the late 1950s, but such a version has never surfaced. "Hide Away" became a blues standard.

After their success with "Hide Away", King and Thompson recorded thirty instrumentals, including "The Stumble", "Just Pickin'", "Sen-Sa-Shun", "Side Tracked", "San-Ho-Zay", "High Rise", and "The Sad Nite Owl". They recorded vocal tracks throughout this period but often released the tunes as instrumentals on albums.

During the Federal period, King toured with many notable R&B artists of the day, including Sam Cooke, Jackie Wilson, and James Brown.

1966–1974: Cotillion, Shelter, RSO Records

King's contract with Federal expired in 1966, and his first overseas tour followed in 1967. His availability was noticed by the producer and saxophonist King Curtis, who had recorded a cover of "Hide Away", with Cornell Dupree on guitar, in 1962. Curtis signed King to Atlantic in 1968, which resulted in two LPs, Freddie King Is a Blues Master (1969) and My Feeling for the Blues (1970), produced by Curtis for the Atlantic subsidiary Cotillion Records.

In 1969 King hired Jack Calmes as his manager, who secured him an appearance at the 1969 Texas Pop Festival, alongside Led Zeppelin and others, and this led to King's signing a recording contract with Shelter Records, a new label established by the rock pianist Leon Russell and the record producer Denny Cordell and recorded at their studio, The Church Studio in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The company treated King as an important artist, flying him to Chicago to the former Chess studios to record the album Getting Ready and providing a lineup of top session musicians, including Russell. Three albums were made during this period, including blues classics and new songs, such as "Going Down", written by Don Nix.

King performed alongside the big rock acts of the day, such as Eric Clapton and Grand Funk Railroad (whose song "We're an American Band" mentions King in its lyrics), and for a young, mainly white audience, along with the white tour drummer Gary Carnes, for three years, before signing with RSO Records. In 1974 he recorded Burglar, for which Tom Dowd produced the track "Sugar Sweet" at Criteria Studios in Miami, with the guitarists Clapton and George Terry, the drummer Jamie Oldaker and the bassist Carl Radle. Mike Vernon produced the other tracks. Vernon also produced a second album for King, Larger than Life,
for the same label. Vernon brought in other notable musicians for both albums, such as Bobby Tench of the Jeff Beck Group, to complement King.

Death
Nearly constant touring took its toll on King—he was on the road almost 300 days out of the year. In 1976 he began suffering from stomach ulcers. His health quickly deteriorated, and he died on December 28 of complications from this illness and acute pancreatitis, at the age of 42.

According to those who knew him, King's untimely death was due to stress, a legendary "hard-partying lifestyle", and a poor diet of consuming Bloody Marys because as he told a journalist, "they've got food in them."

Musical style
King had an intuitive style, often creating guitar parts with vocal nuances. He achieved this by using the open-string sound associated with Texas blues and the raw, screaming tones of West Side, Chicago blues. King's combination of the Texas and Chicago sounds gave his music a more contemporary feel than that of many Chicago bands who were still performing 1950s-style music, and he befriended the younger generation of blues musicians. In his early career he played a solid-body gold-top Gibson Les Paul with P-90 pickups. He later played several slimline semi-hollow body Gibson electric guitars, including an ES-335, ES-345, and ES-355.  He used a plastic thumb pick and a metal index-finger pick.

Legacy
By proclamation of the governor of Texas, Ann Richards, September 3, 1993, was declared Freddie King Day, an honor reserved for Texas legends, such as Bob Wills and Buddy Holly.  He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012, and placed 15th in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time.

Several of King's early 1960s instrumentals found their way into the repertoire of surf music bands: "Those instrumental hits Freddy King had – 'Hideaway', 'San-Ho-Zay', 'The Stumble' – [t]he way white kids were relating to it was like surf guitar in a way; instrumental music that you could dance to."  One band that mixed R&B and surf instrumentals occasionally included Jerry Garcia. He later explained: "When I started playing electric guitar the second time, with the Warlocks, it was a Freddie King album that I got almost all my ideas off of, his phrasing really. That first one, Here's Freddie King, later it came out as Freddie King Plays Surfin' Music or something like that, it has 'San-Ho-Zay' on it and 'Sensation" and all those instrumentals" (King's 1961 instrumental album, Let's Hide Away and Dance Away with Freddy King, was retitled Freddy King Goes Surfin'  for a 1963 re-release).

According to music critic Cub Koda, King has influenced guitarists such as Eric Clapton, Mick Taylor, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Lonnie Mack. In Michael Corcoran's words, King "merged the most vibrant characteristics of both [Chicago and Texas] regional styles and became the biggest guitar hero of the mid-sixties British blues revivalists, who included Eric Clapton, Savoy Brown, Chicken Shack, and Peter Green-era Fleetwood Mac". Clapton said in 1985 that King's 1961 song "I Love the Woman" was "the first time I heard that electric lead-guitar style, with the bent notes ... [it] started me on my path." He later added in an interview with Dan Forte of Guitar World that King's guitar playing on his rendition of "I Got a Woman": "That just sent me into a complete kind of ecstasy, and it scared the shit of me.  I'd never heard anything like it, and I thought I'd never get anywhere near it.  And I know now that I never will, but it was what immediately made me want to carry on."  As Rolling Stone later wrote, "Clapton shared his love of King with fellow British guitar heroes Peter Green, Jeff Beck and Mick Taylor, all of whom were profoundly influenced by King's sharpened-treble tone and curt melodic hooks on iconic singles such as 'The Stumble,' 'I'm Tore Down' and 'Someday, After Awhile.'"

King was among many pioneering African-American blues musicians to embrace the British blues scene and tour its club circuit in the late 1960s. Robert Christgau credited King's embrace of Britain with creating his renown as a pioneer of electric blues guitar. In Gary Graff's MusicHound Rock (1996), the entry on King states: "Although his reputation rests with his guitar, King also sang with an underrated, powerful style. His lasting influence has insured Freddie King's recognition as one of the great postwar blues masters."

Appraisal of recording work 
Recommending what albums of King's music to hear, MusicHound Rock cited the 1993 Rhino compilation The Best of Freddie King, for focusing on "the fruitful abundance" of his recordings for King Records (1961–66), and the 1995 Black Top CD Live at the Electric Ballroom, 1974, for its "blasting, ripping concert" recording along with "a rare pair of acoustic" performances; Freddie King Is a Blues Master (1969) and My Feeling for the Blues (1970) were named records to avoid, as they "both suffer from thin accompaniment, too little guitar and reedy vocals". John Swenson, writing in The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Guide (1999), also recommended the Electric Ballroom recording, along with "Home Cooking's Live at the Texas Opry House (documenting a 1976 show in Houston)", saying they are "the best antidotes to King's lackluster studio work from these years".

In his only review of a King album, The Best of Freddie King (1975) by Shelter Records, Christgau wrote in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981) that the 1971–73 recordings are "a bunch of Leon Russell and Don Nix boogies, [King's] voice blurred, his guitar all fake and roll." He added that, while the guitarist had recorded some "acute R&B" singles early in his career, he later "coast[ed] for years". However, in a review of King's 1974 album Burglar for AllMusic, Joe Viglione called it "entertaining and concise" and believed the album "stands as a solid representation of an important musician which is as enjoyable as it is historic".

Discography

Studio albums
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|rowspan="2"|1961
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! scope="row" | Bossa Nova and Blues
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|rowspan="1"|1965
! scope="row" | Gives You a Bonanza of Instrumentals| King (928)
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! scope="row" | Larger Than Life| RSO (SO4811)
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Selected compilation albums
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! scope="row" | The Best of Freddie King| Shelter (SR-2140)
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| 1986
! scope="row" | Just Pickin'| Modern Blues (MB2LP-721)
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| 1992
! scope="row" | Blues Guitar Hero: The Influential Early Sessions| Ace (CDCHD 454)
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! scope="row" | Hide Away: The Best of Freddie King| Rhino (R2 71510)
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| 2000
! scope="row" | The Best of Freddie King: The Shelter Records Years| The Right Stuff (72435-27245-2-9)
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! scope="row" | Blues Guitar Hero Volume 2| Ace (CDCHD 861)
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! scope="row" | Texas Flyer 1974–1976| Bear Family (BCD 16778 EK)
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Charting singles

References

Bibliography
Busby, Mark (2004). The Southwest. Greenwood Publishing Group. .
Clapton, Eric (2007). Clapton: The Autobiography. Broadway Books. Digitized September 4, 2008. .
Corcoran, Michael (2005). All Over the Map: True Heroes of Texas Music. University of Texas Press. .
Forte, Dan (2000). "Freddie King". In Rollin' and Tumblin': The Postwar Blues Guitarists. Jas Obrecht, ed. San Francisco: Miller Freeman Books. pp. 275–280. , 978-0-87930-613-7.
Hardy, Phil; Laing, Dave; Stephen, Barnard; Perretta, Don (1988). Encyclopedia of Rock. 2nd ed., rev. Schirmer Books. Digitized December 21, 2006. .
Koster, Rick (2000). Texas Music. St. Martin's Press. .
Lawrence, Robb (2008). The Early Years of the Les Paul Legacy 1915–1963. Hal Leonard. .
O'Neal, Jim; Van Singel, Amy (2002). The Voice of the Blues: Classic Interviews from Living Blues Magazine. 10th ed. Routledge. .
Pruter, Robert (1992). Chicago Soul''. 5th ed., reprint. University of Illinois Press. .

External links 
 Official website
 
 
 Freddy King at 45cat.com

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People from Longview, Texas
RSO Records artists
Burials at Sparkman-Hillcrest Memorial Park Cemetery
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John Frederick McCarthy is a musician, author, educator and creator of the Rock House Method system of learning. Since 2001, The Rock House Method has sold more than three million instructional programs of which McCarthy writes, composes, and demonstrates in. In the past McCarthy has written columns for Guitar School magazine and in June 2009 began writing a monthly column titled "Metal Rising" in Guitar Player magazine. As owner of the Rock House School of Music since 1981, McCarthy has developed a curriculum for learning to play music that covers guitar, piano, ukulele, drums, bass guitar, singing, children's early music development and music theory. His awards and accolades include CTNOW "Best Place to Learn Music" award 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, Music & Sound Retailer award for "Best Tools for Schools", Music Merchandise Review "Best Instructional Product of the Year" 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012.

Educator 

John McCarthy began providing music lessons at the age of 15 and created the first complete rock guitar instruction series on video in 1986.  In 2000, John designed the Rock House Method accelerated learning system that combined instruction in video and book form with an on-line support system. In 2001 John began the mission to take "The Rock House Method" to masses.

John currently has authored over 60 instructional method books, 58 instructional DVDs and 1 instructional DVD rom. John designed and developed a Disney Learn Guitar method featuring the songs of Hannah Montana and High School Musical released in 2009 on DVD-ROM.  In addition to his own instructional books and programs John has worked with many of the greatest musicians in the world creating personal instruction programs featuring the Rock House Method, Alexi Laiho, Alex Skolnick, Kiko Loureiro, Jeff Loomis, Bernie Worrell, Oli Herbert, Michael Paget, Rusty Cooley, Dan Jacobs, Rob Arnold, Doug Wimbish, Leo Nocentelli and Dave Ellefson are some of the collaborating artists.

John owns and has been running the Rock House School of Music currently with two locations, West Haven and Wallingford CT. Rock House School of Music is a full service music school offering instruction for guitar, bass, piano, drums, singing and ukulele. In March 2019 the school won the CTNOW award for "Best Place to Take Music Lessons in CT" they also won previously in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018. The school also won first place for the Readers' Choice Award's "Best Music Instruction" in 2020 and 2021.

Musician 

John began playing guitar at the age of 6 inspired by listening to the vast album collection of his older brother and sisters and states this as the reason he has a wide range of music genres in his vocabulary. When John turned 8 he already had a band playing local camps and parties and at 15 was playing across the tri-state area in clubs. At 15 John opened his first music school called Rock House School of Music. He stayed motivated to further his music studies learning to play Piano, drums, bass guitar, ukulele and sing.

In 2006 John recorded his first solo release "Drive" a full length guitar centered instrumental album. Doug Wimbish of Living Colour fame produced and played bass on the album. Other players on the album include Will Calhoun (Living Colour) on drums, Bernie Worrell (P-Funk and Talking Heads) on keyboards, Leo Nocentelli (The Meters) on guitar, and Jordan Gengreco on keyboards.

KeyTab Patent 
In 2020 John McCarthy was awarded a patent for his revolutionary new way to read piano music called KeyTab.

Every once in a while, a new invention emerges that changes the way people learn. For guitar, bass guitar and all stringed instruments it was “Tablature.” Tablature didn’t eliminate the need for standard music notation reading but it enhanced the learning process helping players learn quickly and more effective. In the same fashion as tablature John McCathy created “KeyTab” to help piano players learn chords, progressions and complete songs quickly while getting the feel for the instrument in a positive manner.

McCarthy was awarded a US Patent in March of 2020 for this unique way to learn piano. The KeyTab system comes with a “KeyTab Note Strip”, on this strip every note is labeled and each octave is color coded. The note strip fits perfectly behind the keys on any piano or electronic keyboard. You simply line up the black keys and you are ready to rock. 

KeyTab is a great way for a casual piano player to learn to play songs quickly. McCarthy explains: “There are so many people that have a piano in their home but never learn to play it. With KeyTab you can learn songs quickly and easily. Many people want to play piano but don’t want to be a classical player or take years to go through piano methods. KeyTab is a perfect solution to help people wipe the dust off the piano keys and start learning songs.” 

Rock House Method plan to have the first Piano KeyTab Songbook ready to release by January 2022. This book will include 30 popular hit songs and the KeyTab Note Strip. People will also be able to access full videos that walk players through each song.

Future 
John McCarthy continues to write instructional books for his Rock House Method brand. The Rock House School of Music is expanding and adding locations and John McCarthy plans to franchise his award-winning schools around the world. John McCarthy launched an interactive online learning platform called Rock House U. RockHouseU.com is an interactive learning platform that contains video, audio, text and graphic images along with interactive learning tools to make a complete learning system geared for the future.

Body of work

Instructional books 

 The Rock House Method Learn Guitar Level 1
 The Rock House Method Learn Guitar Level 2
 The Rock House Method Learn Guitar Level 3
The Rock House Method Reading Music for Guitar
 The Rock House Method Learn Piano Level 1
 The Rock House Method Learn Piano Level 2
 The Rock House Method Learn Piano Level 3
 The Rock House Method Learn Bass Level 1
 The Rock House Method Learn Bass Level 2
 The Rock House Method Learn Bass Master Edition
 The Rock House Method Learn Guitar Mater Edition
 The Rock House Method Learn Piano Mater Edition
 The Rock House Method Learn Ukulele a Complete Course
 The Rock House Method Master Rock Guitar a Complete Course
 The Rock House Method Master Blues Guitar a Complete Course
 The Rock House Method Lead Singer From Start to Stage
 The Rock House Method Littler Rockers - Your Childs First Musical Steps
 The Rock House Method Modes Demystified
 The Rock House Method Guitar for Kids
 The Rock House Method Piano for Kids
Rock House Learn Rock Guitar Beginner
Rock House Learn Rock Guitar Intermediate
Rock House Learn Rock Guitar Advanced
Rock House Learn Rock Guitar Course
Rock House Learn Rock Acoustic Beginner
Rock House Learn Rock Acoustic Intermediate
Rock House Children's Guitar Method
Rock House Clap, Tap, Sing & Swing
Rock House The Only Chord Book You'll Ever Need – Guitar
Rock House The Only Chord Book You'll Ever Need – Keyboard
So Easy Ultimate Guitar Acoustic Guitar Course
So Easy Ultimate Guitar Electric Guitar Course
House of Blues Acoustic Guitar Beginner
House of Blues Electric Guitar Beginner
House of Blues Acoustic Guitar Course
House of Blues Electric Guitar Course
House of Blues Blues Guitar Course
House of Blues Blues Guitar Level 1
House of Blues Blues Guitar Level 2
House of Blues Guitar Master Edition

Instructional videos / DVD 

Rock House Learn Rock Guitar Beginner
Rock House Learn Rock Guitar Intermediate
Rock House Learn Rock Guitar Advanced
Rock House Learn Rock Guitar Course
Rock House Learn Rock Acoustic Beginner
Rock House Learn Rock Acoustic Intermediate
Rock House Blues Riffs, Rhythms & Secrets
Rock House Hands of Steel
Rock House Advanced Metal
Rock House Modes Demystified
Rock House Learn Metal Guitar Beginner
Rock House Learn Metal Guitar Intermediate
Rock House Learn Metal Guitar Advanced
Rock House Learn Blues Guitar Beginner
Rock House Learn Blues Guitar Intermediate
Rock House Learn Blues Guitar Advanced
Rock House Lead Guitar
Rock House Learn to Play Ukulele
Rock House Modern Classical Guitar
So Easy Electric Guitar Level 1
So Easy Electric Guitar Level 2
So Easy Acoustic Guitar Level 1
So Easy Acoustic Guitar Level 2
House of Blues Acoustic Guitar Beginner
House of Blues Electric Guitar Beginner
House of Blues Blues Guitar Level 1
House of Blues Learn Metal Guitar Beginner
House of Blues Blues Guitar Level 2
Peavey Play It All Acoustic Guitar
Peavey Play It All Electric Guitar

CD/DVD ROM interactive programs 

Disney Learn Guitar Method – featuring the songs of Hannah Montana & High School Musical

Branded instructional videos / DVD (featured in guitar packs) 

Washburn/Lyon Acoustic and Electric Guitar
Peavey Acoustic Guitar
Peavey Electric Guitar
Silvertone Acoustic Guitar
Silvertone Electric Guitar
Burswood Acoustic and Electric Guitar
SX Acoustic Guitar
SX Electric Guitar
Valencia Classical Guitar
Gypsy Rose Acoustic, Electric and Bass Guitar
Mahalo Ukulele
Ashton Acoustic and Electric Guitar
Spectrum Acoustic Guitar
Spectrum Electric Guitar
Spectrum Keyboard
Behringer Acoustic and Electric Guitar
Jim Deacan Acoustic and Electric Guitar
Switch Acoustic and Electric Guitar

Custom Artist Programs 

Leo Nocentelli (The Meters)
Doug Wimbish (Living Colour)
Rob Arnold (Chimaira)
Marc Rizzo (Soul Fly, Solo Artist)
Dan Jacobs (Atreyu)
Alexi Laiho (Children of Bodom)
David Ellefson (Megadeth)
Bernie Worrell (P-Funk, Talking Heads)
Oli Herbert (All That Remains)
Michael "Padge" Paget (Bullet for My Valentine)
Bobby Thomson (Job for a Cowboy)
Kiko Loureiro (Solo Artist, Angra)
Alex Skolnick (Testament, Alex Skolnick Trio, Trans Siberian Orchestra)
Gary Hoey (Solo Artist)
Jeff Loomis (Nevermore, Solo Artist)
Buz McGrath (Unearth)
Rusty Cooley (Solo Artist)
Freekbass Rock House Funk Bass (Solo artist)
Alex Bach – Guitar for Girls (Solo Artist)

John McCarthy CD releases 

13 O’clock – independent release (1999)
Drive – solo instrumental guitar (2006)

References 

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American rock guitarists
American male guitarists Brij Bhushan Kabra (1937 – 12 April 2018) was an Indian musician who popularized the guitar as an instrument in Indian classical music.

Kabra was born in 1937 to Goverdhanlal Kabra in Jodhpur where he spent his youth. He was interested in sports and listened to Indian classical music but did not intend to become a musician and trained as a geologist. During a visit to Kolkata he discovered the Hawaiian lap slide guitar and convinced his father to let him learn it by promising to only play classical music. Kabra then lived in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, learnt the instrument by imitating records, and later studied under Ali Akbar Khan. He modified the guitar by adding sympathetic and drone strings.

Kabra became the first Indian musician to play raga on the guitar, performed publicly, and recorded the successful album Call of the Valley (1967) with bansuri player Hariprasad Chaurasia and santoor player Shivkumar Sharma. The guitar was seldom used in Indian classical music, and his guitar playing gained popularity in the 1970s hippie culture. Kabra recorded solo albums and concentrated on teaching since the 1990s but continued to perform.

He was awarded the Rajasthan Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for 1983–84, was made a fellow of the Rajasthan Sangeet Natak Akademi for 1995–96, and received the national Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for 2005.

Kabra died on 12 April 2018 in Ahmedabad at age 81.

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1937 births
2018 deaths
Hindustani instrumentalists
Indian guitarists
Rajasthani people
People from Jodhpur
Recipients of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
Slide guitarists