Best Eric Dickey Podcasts (2024)

In this lesson I want to show you how to play 3 Beginner Billy Gibbons/Warren Haynes style blues rock licks in the key of G. The entire solo uses 4 positions from the Minor Pentatonic Scale.By info@learningguitarnow.com (John W. Tuggle)

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Video Podcast 107 Acoustic Blues Lesson in G

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In this lesson you’ll learn an Acoustic Blues piece in the key of G that has a lot of different elements played with a pick. Little bit of Robert Johnson style in this one as well.By info@learningguitarnow.com (John W. Tuggle)

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Video Podcast 104 Acoustic Blues Fingerstyle Style Lesson

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In this lesson I want to show you how to play an Acoustic Blues Lead Solo in the key of E.By info@learningguitarnow.com (John W. Tuggle)

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Video Podcast 105 Freddie King Style Lesson

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In this lesson I want to show you how to play a Freddie King Love Her With a Feeling style solo.By info@learningguitarnow.com (John W. Tuggle)

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Video Podcast 103 Dickey Betts Melissa Style Lesson

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In this lesson I want to show you how to play a Dickey Betts inspired major pentatonic solo. You’ll hear him using this type of phrasing on tunes such as Melissa and Blue Sky.By info@learningguitarnow.com (John W. Tuggle)

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Video Podcast 102 Acoustic Blues in E

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In this lesson you'll learn an Acoustic Blues Exercise for switching between Rhythm and Lead in the key of E.By info@learningguitarnow.com (John W. Tuggle)

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Video Podcast 101 Using Rests and Repeats in a Slow Blues

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In this lesson I’ll be demonstrating two Concepts you can use in a slow blues. They are the placement of rests and repeating notes or phrases.By info@learningguitarnow.com (John W. Tuggle)

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Video Podcast 100 Allman, Green style 8 Bar Blues Blues Lesson.

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In this lesson I want to show you how to play a Duane Allman, Peter Green style 8 Bar Blues solo in the key of a.By info@learningguitarnow.com (John W. Tuggle)

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Video Podcast 98 Clapton Three O Clock Blues Lesson.

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In this lesson I want to show you how to play an Eric Clapton style slow blues solo in the key of B.By info@learningguitarnow.com (John W. Tuggle)

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Video Podcast 95 Minor Blues Lesson.

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In this lesson I want to show you how to play a minor blues solo using chords in the key of B.By info@learningguitarnow.com (John W. Tuggle)

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149 The Tormented Rise of Abolition in Andrew Jackson's America with J.D. Dickey 1:02:56

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The 1830s were the most violent time in American history outside of war. Men battled each other in the streets in ethnic and religious conflicts, gangs of party henchmen rioted at the ballot box, and assault and murder were common enough as to seem unremarkable. The president who presided over the era, Andrew Jackson, was himself a duelist and carr…

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148 William Hunter, A British Soldier's Son Who Became an Early American with Eugene A. Procknow 51:45

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In June 1798, President John Adams signed the now infamous Alien & Sedition Acts to suppress political dissent. Facing imminent personal risks, a gutsy Kentucky newspaper editor ran the first editorial denouncing the law's attempt to stifle the freedom of the press. Almost immediately, government lawyers recommended his arrest and prosecution.That …

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Video Podcast 91 ZZ Top Style Minor Blues Lesson.

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In this lesson I want to show you how to play a Blue Jean Blues Style solo in the key of B.By info@learningguitarnow.com (John W. Tuggle)

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147 John Leland: A Jeffersonian Baptist in Early America with Eric C. Smith 59:13

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John Leland (1754-1841) was one of the most influential and entertaining religious figures in early America. As an itinerant revivalist, he demonstrated an uncanny ability to connect with a popular audience, and contributed to the rise of a "democratized" Christianity in America. A tireless activist for the rights of conscience, Leland also waged a…

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146 The Evolution of American Equality with Michael A. Bellesiles 1:00:18

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The evolution of the battle for true equality in America seen through the men, ideas, and politics behind the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments passed at the end of the Civil War. On July 4, 1852, Frederick Douglass stood in front of a crowd in Rochester, New York, and asked, “What to the slave is the Fourth of July?” The audience had invited him to …

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Video Podcast 88 ZZ Top Style Blues Lesson.

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In this lesson I want to show you how to play a ZZ Top inspired blues solo in the key of C. This lesson was inspired by the tunes Nationwide and Gimme All Your Lovin’, a great rockin’ blues track.By info@learningguitarnow.com (John W. Tuggle)

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Video Podcast 89 Peter Green Minor Style Blues Lesson.

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In this lesson I want to show you how to play a Peter Green style blues solo in the key of G.By info@learningguitarnow.com (John W. Tuggle)

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145 Cronyism in Early America with Patrick Newman 55:24

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Cronyism: Liberty versus Power in America 1607-1849 describes the evolution of political favor seeking in early American history, from the colonial era to the Mexican War. Newman argues that cronyism emerged from the perennial clash between the forces of liberty and power. When the interventionist Federalists, National Republicans, and Whigs contro…

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144 The Young America Movement and the Transformation of the Democratic Party with Yonatan Eyal 1:13:54

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The phrase 'Young America' connoted territorial and commercial expansion in the antebellum United States. During the years leading up to the Civil War, it permeated various parts of the Democratic party, producing new perspectives in the realms of economics, foreign policy, and constitutionalism. Led by figures such as Senator Stephen A. Douglas of…

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143 The Bible, the Constitution, and Historical Consciousness in Antebellum America with Jordan T. Watkins 1:11:50

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In the decades before the Civil War, Americans appealed to the nation's sacred religious and legal texts - the Bible and the Constitution - to address the slavery crisis. The ensuing political debates over slavery deepened interpreters' emphasis on historical readings of the sacred texts, and in turn, these readings began to highlight the unbridgea…

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142 Free People of Color in the South with Warren E. Milteer Jr. 1:02:37

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On the eve of the Civil War, most people of color in the United States toiled in bondage. Yet nearly half a million of these individuals, including over 250,000 in the South, were free. In Beyond Slavery's Shadow, Warren Eugene Milteer Jr. draws from a wide array of sources to demonstrate that from the colonial period through the Civil War, the gro…

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141 Elijah Lovejoy and the Fight for a Free Press in the Age of Slavery with Ken Ellingwood 1:08:33

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The history of the fight for free press has never been more vital in our own time, when journalists are targeted as “enemies of the people.” In this brilliant and rigorously researched history, award-winning journalist and author Ken Ellingwood animates the life and times of abolitionist newspaper editor Elijah Lovejoy. First to Fall illuminates th…

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140 Constitutionalism in the American Revolution with Gordon S. Wood 57:35

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The half century extending from the imperial crisis between Britain and its colonies in the 1760s to the early decades of the new republic of the United States was the greatest and most creative era of constitutionalism in American history, and perhaps in the world. During these decades, Americans explored and debated all aspects of politics and co…

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Video Podcast 87 SRV/Albet King Style Blues Lesson.

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In this lesson I want to show you how to play an SRV/Albert King Matchbox style rhythm and lead in the key of Ab.By info@learningguitarnow.com (John W. Tuggle)

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139 Israelite Indians and Religious Nationalism in Early America with Matthew W. Dougherty 1:09:01

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The belief that Native Americans might belong to the fabled “lost tribes of Israel”—Israelites driven from their homeland around 740 BCE—took hold among Anglo-Americans and Indigenous peoples in the United States during its first half century. In Lost Tribes Found, Matthew W. Dougherty explores what this idea can tell us about religious nationalism…

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138 Sarah Josepha Hale and the Making of the Modern American Woman with Melanie Kirkpatrick 51:05

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For half a century Sarah Josepha Hale was the most influential woman in America. As editor of Godey’s Lady’s Book, Hale was the leading cultural arbiter for the growing nation. Women (and many men) turned to her for advice on what to read, what to cook, how to behave, and―most important―what to think. Twenty years before the declaration of women’s …

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137 Identities of Sexual Restraint in Early America with Kara M. French 1:00:19

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How much sex should a person have? With whom? What do we make of people who choose not to have sex at all? As present as these questions are today, they were subjects of intense debate in the early American republic. In this richly textured history, Kara French investigates ideas about, and practices of, sexual restraint to better understand the se…

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Video Podcast 86 ZZ Top Left Chicago Style Blues Lesson.

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In this lesson, you'll learn how to play a ZZ Top inspired blues solo in the key of G.By info@learningguitarnow.com (John W. Tuggle)

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136 C-SPAN's Presidential Historians Survey with Thomas Balcerski 1:07:19

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When C-SPAN conducted our first Historians Survey of Presidential Leadership in 2000, we worked with a team of nationally recognized historians to establish the survey's framework: Douglas Brinkley, Edna Greene Medford and Richard Norton Smith. They recommended the 10 qualities of presidential leadership and guided us on the survey's organization, …

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Video Podcast 85 Cream Strange Brew Style Blues Lesson.

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In this lesson, you'll learn how to play a Cream inspired blues solo in the key of A.By info@learningguitarnow.com (John W. Tuggle)

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Video Podcast 84 Eric Clapton 335 Slow Blues Lesson.

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In this lesson, you'll learn how to play an Eric Clapton 335 style Slow Blues in the key of C.By info@learningguitarnow.com (John W. Tuggle)

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135 The Science of Abolition with Eric Herschthal 1:01:10

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In the context of slavery, science is usually associated with slaveholders’ scientific justifications of racism. But abolitionists were equally adept at using scientific ideas to discredit slaveholders. Looking beyond the science of race, The Science of Abolition shows how Black and white scientists and abolitionists drew upon a host of scientific …

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134 Nativists, Catholics, and Citizen-Soldiers in the Philadelphia 1844 Riots with Zachary M. Schrag 56:12

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America is in a state of deep unrest, grappling with xenophobia, racial, and ethnic tension a national scale that feels singular to our time. But it also echoes the earliest anti-immigrant sentiments of the country. In 1844, Philadelphia was set aflame by a group of Protestant ideologues—avowed nativists—who were seeking social and political power …

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133 Joseph Smith for President in the Election of 1844 with Spencer W. McBride 1:02:08

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By the election year of 1844, Joseph Smith, the controversial founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, had amassed a national following of some 25,000 believers. Nearly half of them lived in the city of Nauvoo, Illinois, where Smith was not only their religious leader but also the mayor and the commander-in-chief of a militia of …

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132 American Republics, A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850 with Alan Taylor 59:02

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From a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, the powerful story of a fragile nation as it expands across a contested continent. In this beautifully written history of America’s formative period, a preeminent historian upends the traditional story of a young nation confidently marching to its continent-spanning destiny. The newly constituted United Stat…

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131 The War of 1812 in the West with David Kirkpatrick 1:01:17

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The spring of 1812 found the young American republic on edge. The British Navy was impressing American seamen with impunity at an alarming rate while vicious attacks on frontier settlements by American Indians armed with British weapons had left a trail of fear and outrage. As calls for a military response increased, Kentucky, the first state west …

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Video Podcast 83 12 Bar Minor Slow Blues Lesson.

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In this lesson, you'll learn how to play a 12 Bar Minor Slow Blues in the key of B.By info@learningguitarnow.com (John W. Tuggle)

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130 Earthquakes, Prophecy, and the Remaking of Early America with Jonathan Todd Hancock 1:07:33

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The New Madrid earthquakes of 1811–12 were the strongest temblors in the North American interior in at least the past five centuries. From the Great Plains to the Atlantic Coast and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, a broad cast of thinkers struggled to explain these seemingly unprecedented natural phenomena. They summoned a range of trad…

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129 How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America with Joshua D. Rothman 1:22:28

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Slave traders are peripheral figures in most histories of American slavery. But these men—who trafficked and sold over half a million enslaved people from the Upper South to the Deep South—were essential to slavery's expansion and fueled the growth and prosperity of the United States. In The Ledger and the Chain, acclaimed historian Joshua D. Rothm…

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128 America's First Civil Rights Movement with Kate Masur 1:06:02

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The half-century before the Civil War was beset with conflict over equality as well as freedom. Beginning in 1803, many free states enacted laws that discouraged free African Americans from settling within their boundaries and restricted their rights to testify in court, move freely from place to place, work, vote, and attend public school. But ove…

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127 John C. Fremont and the Violent Election Of 1856 with John Bicknell 47:19

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The 1856 presidential race was the most violent peacetime election in American history. War between proslavery and antislavery settlers raged in Kansas; a congressman shot an Irish immigrant at a Washington hotel; and another congressman beat a US senator senseless on the floor of the Senate. But amid all the violence, the campaign of the new Repub…

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126 The Radical Significance of the Free Exercise of Religion with Jack N. Rakove 58:36

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Today, Americans believe that the early colonists came to the New World in search of religious liberty. What we often forget is that they wanted religious liberty for themselves, not for those who held other views that they rejected and detested. Yet, by the mid-18th century, the colonists agreed that everyone possessed a sovereign right of conscie…

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125 The Reverse Underground Railroad Toward Slavery with Richard Bell 1:06:39

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Philadelphia, 1825: five young, free black boys fall into the clutches of the most fearsome gang of kidnappers and slavers in the United States. Lured onto a small ship with the promise of food and pay, they are instead met with blindfolds, ropes, and knives. Over four long months, their kidnappers drive them overland into the Cotton Kingdom to be …

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124 Abraham Lincoln and the Anti-Slavery Constitution with James Oakes 44:40

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The long and turning path to the abolition of American slavery has often been attributed to the equivocations and inconsistencies of antislavery leaders, including Lincoln himself. But James Oakes’s brilliant history of Lincoln’s antislavery strategies reveals a striking consistency and commitment extending over many years. The linchpin of antislav…

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