You can order here by check, money order, or credit card. These Steve James CDs are available for $16 per title. Sorry but Fast Texas is out of print, at least for now. We also have all three of Steve's Homespun DVDs teaching Roots and Blues Guitar and Blues Mandolin Volumes I and II. DVDs are $30 from:

Steve James c/o Hobemian Records

POB 85718

Seattle Washington 98145 USA

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Boom Chang (Burnside 0038) $16

This 2000 release includes Stack Lee's Blues, Sonny Payne, Saturday Night In Jail...11 more. Steve plays solo and accompanied by Alvin Youngblood Hart, Mark Rubin, Cindy Cashdollar, Gary Primich.

Special deal: "Boom Chang" plus "Two Track Mind", for only $20 plus shipping while supplies last. Over 90 minutes of prime Steve James for the curious first-timer or the discerning SJ fan on a budget!

Two Track Mind (Antones 0024) $16
This is the album no frills, recorded nearly 20 years ago, that brought Steve to the attention of the world outside Texas, and these "cut-outs" (the jewel boxes have a small saw mark) may be the last you'll see. Titles include: Milwaukee Blues, Rocks and Gravel, Guitar Rag, Huggin' and Chalkin', Bachelor Blues, County Line Road, 7 more. The cover art with a young, hair-farming Steve James is worth the price of the disc.

Not For Highway Use-Austin Sessions 1988-95 (Settlement 0001-2) $16 This 22-song sequence includes selected, re-mastered tracks from Two Track Mind, American Primitive, Art and Grit, Steve's albums for Antone's and Antone's/Discovery. Songs include: Milwaukee Blues, Huggin' and Chalkin', Greasy Greens, The Change, Talco Girl, Grain Alchohol, Downbound Train, Farewell the Roses . Steve plays solo and accompanied by Bad Livers, Bob Brozman, Cindy Cashdollar, Gary Primich and Ann Rabson.

Tonight (Hobemian HB009) $16

This is Steve's duet album with guitarist and ukulele-player Del Rey. Released in 2004 it includes Nadine (Is It You?) 2 Baltimore 3 Steve and Del's Precious Five 4 Tappin' That Thing 5 Truck Driver's Roll 6 Changette7 I Love My Guitar 8 Alta Vista Serenade 9 Long As I Can See You Smile 10 I Am Sailin' 11Black Stick 12 Josie Bush 13 The Real Guitar Rag 14 Little Baby

Roots and Blues Fingerstyle Guitar (String Letter 1-890490-14-8) $20

This book details twenty-five songs in accessible, authentic arrangements, with standard notation, tablature and chord diagrams, plus backgrounds and photos on the artists and songs. The included CD has all the music, played slowly and up to tempo. Includes Milwaukee Blues, Amos Johnson Rag, Stack Lee's Blues, The Guitar Rag.

Fingerstyle Blues Songbook

(String Letter press) $15

Steve's 2005 book. Learn to play country blues, ragtime blues, boogie blues, slow blues, and gospel with fingerstyle technique. The songs are: Betty and Dupree, Shortnin' Bread, "A" Blues for Ya, Raggin' the Blues, Walkin' the Basses, Slow as Lightnin', Poor Boy, Delta Thing, Dusted, Lonesome Weary Blues, Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor, Oh, Mary Don't You Weep, Skin Game Blues, Drop D Blues, and Bye Bye Baby Blues

DVD Roots and Blues Guitar (Homespun) $30

Intermediate Level Fingerpicking
80-minute DVD. Includes tab book
This lesson will add many new tricks and some wonderful songs to your guitar repertoire, and will provide rare insights into the great traditional players who originated this style.

DVD Learn To Play Blues Mandolin (Homespun) $30

60 Minute DVD includes chord diagrams, music and tab.
With John Sebastian, guitar and 6-string banjo
Steve James shows novice players how to play a number of great blues and jug band tunes and the techniques to go along with them. A must for those who want to use the mandolin for rhythmic accompaniment or as a hard-driving lead instrument for the blues.

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