Hi Stefan, I’ve been a guitar player of fairly poor standard for years with only basic and random finger picking. I heard this lesson and loved the tune so I decided to give it a try. It was very difficult for me but I gave it a go and after many many hours of practice I got the alternating base technique down along with the melody picking. This was about 3-4 years ago and now this song comes naturally. My point is that this lesson changed my guitar playing life. I can now learn many more complex picking songs quite quickly. Even some reasonably intermediate level ragtime blues stuff. Thanks Stefan, this was the big move for me in playing and also, thanks to my long suffering wife for listening to the same tune for about 150 hours,! Best wishes Stefan and thanks.

Stefan--I've always ben a slooow learner. But you've been a part of my life since even before your books had plastic records in them. We need you always!

Brilliant teacher, his dvd's are the best around.

I learned this from a girl in the student lounge at Bronx Community College in 1964. Been playing it ever since. Love it every time I play it.

Been learning from Stefan for 40 years and 4000 miles away here in England. Thanks Stefan.

Excellent---LOVE this song and first heard it back in the 60's on a LP by Reverend Davis. Simple--yet NOT so simple. I play a version on classical guitar.

The amost amazing guitar acoustic old blues player in the world 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Stefan--our aspirational god! A friend saw you at Wilson Library in Chapel Hill a few years back. Sorry I missed you.

thank's stefan grossman, still got some of your cassette tapes from 1986 and still get back to them when in need, again thank you so much

Man the F part then the C with the G on the always trips me up lol. Ive been at it for a few days. Maybe in a few weeks ill be able to play this through

This is fantastic , thanks . I picked up a Stefan Grosman album in my early teens from local library ,without knowing what I would find ,opened me up to a whole new world of music , great respect for the man .

You've been an inspiration to many followers of the Reverend's music, probably more than you realize. Thanks from one of us!

old fashion country blues....lovely Great clip!

Top stuff - takes me back 15 yrs. Legend.

Stefan, I found a book you wrote called "Country Blues Guitar" printed in 1971, and it has the best, easiest to understand guitar tablature in it. I'm a professional musician and I'm teaching myself to play "old style", Delta type blues on the guitar and your tab is making it immeasurably easier to learn. I can't thank you enough for carrying on the tradition of teaching others what you have learned of the different blues styles. I am doing my best to do the same with what I learn. You rock.

The guy is a legend. I shared student halls of residences with a guy that had been taught by a Grossman enthusiast. I was an out and out shredder at the time. I was 17. It expanded my horizons hugely. Top bloke Stephan. Great sense of humour too.

Remember first hearing Stefan in a concert at my college at Maria Grey College in West London in 1971, he even got applause when he was tuning!

For those who want tabs try stefans website he has a good deal of DVD lessons with tab now for the important part Stefan THANK YOU so very much for keeping this music alive I know the reverend and many others are thrilled to hear you play

Thx for the lesson- I have been listening to him for about 40yrs. My friend jim used to help him around and took me to say hello just before he died. Annie gave us one of his harps each.I think of him a lot and always will How about another lesson?

Muireann Bradley inspired me to learn this

grabbin the country blues DVD for christmas and i am SO EXCITED its hard to wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!can't wait you roK stefan grossman!

Awesome lesson. Thanks for posting it Stefan!

Masterpiece performance

Thank you Stefan...

Thanks for showing us such a great tune, nice picking and so catchy,Thank You.

Wonderful, been waiting for this video for a while. The Hot Tuna version hooked me 15 years ago and it's been somewhere in the back of my mind ever since.

WOW !!! Listen to Stefan Make that Guitar SING.!!!

I heard Stefan at Maria Grey College of Education in 1971, I did the lighting. Sadly the audience was very small, but you even got applause for tuning your guitar.

Thanks for this song

stefan, you truly are a god.

Awesome video. Just realised the version of the Reverend's Candyman i've been listening to for about a year was recorded by Stefan. This is the next best thing to Gary showing you the song himself. Sterling work!

thank you

COOL 👍

This is wonderful, great music and so well explained. Four people are the product of the spoilt generation that likes to tell you how much they don't like something, instead of just moving quietly on.

Thank you, Stefan. I played this song in the sixties when I learned it from Donovan's version. I knew there was much more behind it (guitar wise), but could never lay my hand on a decent video. Thanks to internet I found your excellent instruction. It was some hassle to find out your exact picking, but I think I got it now. I am inclined to buy your complete DVD, but in the first place to learn some odd pickings. If you explain those it would be an enrichment for me. Charlie (Netherlands)

haha this is awesome

My guitar is in standard tuning but sounds nothing like this. What tuning is he using??

Davis' recording from Pure Religion doesn't include the extra beat when F is "rolled into." If you try listening the his arrangement from Pure Religion, using the first bass note as the & of 4, the entire tune is turned around, and the F part makes more sense. I tried counting the bass note as the down beat for a long time, and could never reconcile this. If you put the bass notes on &, the whole thing makes more sense. However both ways are awesome =D. Good lesson

This "Baby" runs and gets his own beer.

Can some one explain why he mentions that the second finger should keep going 'home' to the E of the C chord (2nd fret fourth string) even though he doesn't seem to play this note in the pattern ? Or is the note played and i'm missing something ? Just good technique? I find myself simply removing the finger on and off the A on G-string. Thanks !

Dave Van Ronk used to do this song, but he always gave credit to Gary Davis.

I would like to see the right hand at 2:18 so I can play the melody. I know what left hand does, that is no secret. Later on the right hand is shown, but it goes too fast.

I want that shirt so bad

I was wondering if anyone knew where I could get the tab or the music to rev gary Davis ...I saw the light .& I am the true vine

just started on this one. the middle finger does a lot of fingering positions that are not played?

The Candy Man "canned" on Cannery Row

Really enjoy playing this song and great lesson, but 1:07 creeps me the fuck out!

Hello Stefan.....could you advise me on gauge of strings for this style of playing please?

anyone wanna provide the actual tabs?

I wanna be in a band with you

Sportin right hand, 😆

I couldn't find the woman who was singing lol

Davis uses his left hand thumb.

i meant to ask you wot imitate means

Rest assured world, this would take me too long to accomplish. I really want to try again but...maybe I should just stick to harmonica. I understand it. It makes sense. Guitar confuses the shit out of me, the left hand, the right hand, the finges, the dam strings and the frets and the chords and the bars and the...basicly all of that. I wish I could just pick it up like I picked up playing harmonica but it seems impossible.

If I was a woman, my desire would be to marry Stefan Gossman. Right now its to marry Anne Briggs. However shes a wee bit older than I, so its a time machine first.

Er, I don't think so!

Had to LEAVE EARLY, THAT WOMANS IMITATION VOICE WAS CREEPY

Your a great player please dont sing its awful

funny woman singing