Product Details

• Actors: Pat Donohue
• Directors: Pat Donohue
• Format: Color, DVD, Import, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: G (General Audience)
• Studio: Grossman's Guitar Workshop
• DVD Release Date: October 27, 2008
• Run Time: 77 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B001EIK7UK
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #124,291 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

About the Actor

Pat Donohue is "a masterful guitarist and talented singer-songwriter of blues, folk and jazz" (Los Angeles Times). His talents are displayed weekly in his appearances on public radio's A Prarie Home Companion, where his guitar playing, writing and singing are featured regularly. The 1983 National Finger Picking Guitar Champion, Donohue's style blends blues and folk in a critically acclaimed display of guitar artistry. His original songs have been recorded by Chet Atkins, Suzy Bogguss, Loose Ties and other national performers. He has been a featured performer at major music festivals including the Newport Folk Festival, Telluride Festival, and the Philadelphia Folk Festival, and performs regularly in concerts and clubs around the country. Pat Donohue's guitar skills are shared through his many teaching events. His extensive travels for A Prarie Home Companion and his solo performance engagements enable him to conduct in-person group workshops throughout the country. He participates in teaching camps, and also had three instructional videos. Although he went to college in Milwaukee and lived and performed in Denver for a number of years, Pat is a life-long resident of St. Paul, Minnesota, where he currently lives with his wife Susan and daughter Daisy.

Product Description

From swing to jazz to bottleneck blues to folk, Grammy winning acoustic guitarist Pat Donohue plays it all with a flourish of artistry and melodic inspiration. Chet Atkins called Pat one of the greatest fingerpickers in the world today; Leo Kottke called his playing "haunting." Pat is certainly one of the most listened to fingerpickers in the world. As the guitarist for the Guys All-Star Shoe Band of Minnesota Public Radio s A Prairie Home Companion, Pat gets to show off his savvy licks and distinctive original songs to millions of listeners each week. Pat's musical tastes are eclectic. Though he considers himself foremost a folk guitarist, Pat's influences are rooted in bluesmen Blind Blake, Robert Johnson, Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Muddy Waters and Miles Davis. He manages to blend jazz and blues with folk, and the mix is seamless. Over the years he has captivated audiences with his unique original compositions, dazzling instrumentals and humorous song parodies. Titles include: Road To Kingdom Come, Novacaine, Spike Driver's Blues, Shuffle Rag. West Coast Blues, Kindhearted Woman, Cypress Grove, I Never Cried , Boogie Woogie Dance, Mudslide, Stompin At The Savoy, The Mooche, The Hard Way, Stealing From Chet, The Other End Of The Mississippi, Buddy The Blues, Would You Like To Play The Guitar, My True Love and Louis Collins.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars From a guitar player about a guitar player's album..., December 27, 2008

By	Lawrence Jacobsen "LJguitar" (Cheyenne, WY USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This DVD is a great example of a mixture of the history of fingerstyle (and a bit of slide) guitar in 20th Century USA and up till now.

And finally Pat did his version of ''Would You Like to Play the Guitar'' (set to the tune of Would you like to sing on a star)...

This is a mixture of advice, pointers, history of the players and great playing - amazing playing. If you've never Pat his playing is clean, clever, never boring, and always challenging should you decide to learn what he's doing. It's not a teaching DVD but it can serve as such for accomplished players.

Pat Donohue has been the guitarist for Prairie Home Companion for years- for good reason!