category: instrumental country / gospel

When I was a teenager, I spent a great deal of time reading the liner notes to my LPs. With the dawn of the CD age, liner notes pretty much went out the window, unless they were tucked away inside the CD booklet, written in very small print that is getting harder and harder to read every year . . . But, I digress. For those who are interested in such things, I thought I would share some background information on my Fingerpickin' CD.

The enhanced CD plays in your home, portable, or car system just like a regular CD. Pop the CD in your computer (it's both Mac and PC compatible) to view or print the music (pdf format). It's like a performance CD and an instructional book on one CD!

The first ten tracks ("That's My Boy" thru "The Crawl") are from my 1994 cassette Fingerpickin' Guitar Solos. "Appalachian Lullaby" and "Sand Mountain Sleigh Ride" are from my Christmas Time CD and Acoustic Christmas book/CD set (Warner/Alfred Publications). "Summer Walks", "Au contraire", "Just Takin' My Time", "Headin' Home", and "Walkin' Shoes" are from the Down Home Picking book/CD set (Mel Bay Publications). The second version of "Au contraire" is from the Remembering Marcel book/CD set (Mel Bay Publications; out-of-print). The rest first appeared in various issues of Acoustic Guitar Workshop.

I dedicate this collection to my favorite fingerpickers, Chet Atkins, Jerry Reed, and Paul Yandell. Also my Dad, who first put a guitar in my hands." -- Craig Dobbins, May 2006

CD Track Listing

All compositions by Craig B. Dobbins

  1. THAT'S MY BOY (2:08)
  2. STREETWISE (2:33)
  3. JULIE (2:45)
  4. CHESTER (2:45)
  5. THE WAVULAR SIDESTEP (1:16)
  6. HANG LOOSE (2:48)
  7. ONCE AGAIN (1:28)
  8. THE BALLAD OF FRED SMITH (2:19)
  9. THROUGH THE TEARS (1:37)
10. THE CRAWL (2:33)
11. LUAYNE (2:56)
12. SUMMER WALKS (1:26)
13. JUST TAKIN' MY TIME (2:37)
14. AU CONTRAIRE (solo version) (2:20)
15. HEADIN' HOME (1:49)
16. APPALACHIAN LULLABY (2:14)
17. SAND MOUNTAIN SLEIGH RIDE (1:31)
18. WALKIN' SHOES (1:59)
19. AU CONTRAIRE ("Remembering Marcel" version) (3:10)

Total timing: 42:22

Label/No: CBD-108

Release date: 2006