Dan Crary & Thunderation (Steve Spurgin & Keith Little)
Now Available on DVD!
 Happily, once in a while, something actually works out. Case in point, long-time collaborators Dan and Steve, were looking for an additional partner for a new music ensemble. ‘Turns out, the perfect guy for the job lives just half an hour away, over in the next valley.
So pioneer flatpicker Dan Crary, and longtime singer/songwriter Steve Spurgin found their man: he ?s multi-instrumentalist and singer Keith Little, and he ?s a neighbor up here in the Sierra foothills. But if good geography got them together the first time, a shared passion for the music itself created the ensemble: Dan Crary & Thunderation.
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Appearances
July 2-4, 2010
Wheeler County Bluegrass Festival
Fossil, Oregon
With Dale Adkins
Nov 14, 2010 - 6:30pm
Black Bart Theater
Murphys, California
Dan Crary & Thunderation
Steve Spurgin, Keith Little
Info & Tickets: 209.736.0210
February 5, 2011
Marv's Music
Winlock, Washington
Dan Crary & Thunderation
Steve Spurgin, Keith Little
One-Day Festival
Workshop & Concert
Info & Tickets: winlockpickers.com
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The Dan Crary Capo
DCC-1 | $79.95
The design of this capo looks the same as a century of crossbar-type screw-tightened brass capos, but it's not. This capo comes directly out of Dan Crary's using, thinking about, and occasionally cussing at capos. It is designed to be different in about seven or eight ways, avoid some of the problems these strange but useful little tools create, and most of all, to make your guitar sound better than ever.
 Solid brass Fine-tune adjustable
Holds tight with less tension
Distorts tuning less Avoids capo-pressure neck damage Looks, feels, and works like serious pro equipment
"It's the best capo out ever made as far as I'm concerned." - D. Bolger
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Renaissance of the
Steel String Guitar
Dan Crary
TM-039 | $16.95
Renaissance of the Steel String Guitar will take you on a journey into the past and recent history of the instrument, with performances of the music that has punctuated its rise.
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Synergia
(Formerly Live On Tour)
TM-037 | $15.00
Synergia
Gambetta & Crary
Recorded live in Europe, this first full-length collaboration between Italian guitar virtuoso Beppe Gambetta and flatpicking legend Dan Crary ranges over a widely entertaining range of music: Italian and American traditions, world music themes, blues, and classical.
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Watch for Primal Twang on
your local PBS station!
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Primal Twang
DCPT-001 | $24.00
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Primal Twang: The Legacy of the Guitar
Available on DVD!
VIEW TRAILER 
Requires QuickTime
In September 2006 San Diego hosted the world premiere of Primal Twang: The Legacy of the Guitar — the first definitive theatrical journey through the guitar’s colorful and surprisingly controversial 3500-year history. The story of the "instrument of the gods" was told through a combination of onstage narration, video projections of rare historical footage and electrifying live performances by world music legend, Dan Crary and an all-star ensemble of international guitar greats including Grammy Award winners Eric Johnson, Albert Lee, Doc Watson, Mason Williams ("Classical Gas"), Andrew York (Los Angeles Guitar Quartet),) as well as Richard Watson, harp-guitarists John Doan and Beppe Gambetta, Brazilian jazz master Peter Sprague, and Grand Old Opry star Doyle Dykes. The program debuted to enthusiastic sold-out audiences at the lavishly renovated, palatial Birch North Park Theatre.
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ThunderShots® Flatpicking
Guitar Series
Dan Crary | DVD
Soldier's Joy
TM-DVD-DC203
$19.95
Forked Deer
TM-DVD-DC202
$19.95
Billy in the Low Ground
TM-DVD-DC201
$19.95
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The ThunderShots® Flatpicking Guitar Series
Dan Crary
In these ThunderShots® Flatpicking Guitar Series lessons, Dan Crary shows you how to move ahead with your playing faster and more effectively by, among other things, listening more effectively to the music you want to play.
In addition, Dan will guide you through both beginner and advanced arrangements, suggest beautiful and powerful accompaniment ideas, and show you how to create your own original variations.
We think we have found a way you can learn guitar techniques, songs, and tunes that is faster and more effective, and keeps on teaching you because it emphasizes how you can continue to teach yourself to play and stay excited about your progress.
 I bought BILLY IN THE LOW GROUND Thunderation DVD at a Taylor Guitars Workshop with Dan Crary . . . . I have loved learning to play it. As one who is comfortable reading tablature, I then purchased the Flatpickers Guide. I really appreciate the CD that is with that. The Thunderation DVD is good in that while I was learning the song I played it a lot of times. And I really KNOW that song now! Deep thanks for all the work that has gone into these DVDs.
— P. Dunn, Maine
You're a teacher, Dan, so I'm going to tell you something you probably already know: the simple approach, the one that yields results best and fastest with the least amount of effort, is usually the approach that gets overlooked. You didn't overlook it. You cultivated it on the Soldier's Joy DVD, and I've finally got a tune down well.
I've struggled with learning tab arrangements for years. I believe your simple approach--getting the melody bit by bit in your head (and heart)--is the one that works. You know, it worked for centuries, for people who couldn't read. Thanks, Dan!
— R. Boyle
The DVD has finally arrived and it was worth the wait! The lesson is excellent and will keep me busy for a while. I see that the DVD has been completely repackaged, nice job. Once I get through 'Soldier's Joy' I plan to order more of Dan's DVD series. Thanks again.
— J. Finn, New Jersey
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