Yours truly somewhere around the One City Center Portland ,Maine Skyline

One of my favorites, my 1954 Fender Champion

 I've been in the music business for thirty years. First as a musician,then in consumer electronics. I buy and sell Hi Fidelity sound reproduction equipment,guitars, and guitar related items.Occasionally I will sell some of those,as well as other items here on E Bay. I love vintage instruments, and especially lap steel guitars from the thirties,forties,and fifties. When I start tripping over the excessive inventory of lap steels,and other guitars I've obtained,I  sell a few on E Bay.

 I studied music at Berklee in Boston in the seventies. In the later seventies I was a student at the University of Maine Augusta Jazz Music Program.This little known Jazz school was started,and is run by Chuck Winfield of Blood,Sweat&Tears fame.My teachers there included the famous jazz trombonist Roswell Rudd who taught me composition. I performed with various bands at this time, primarily country novelty,and jazzy western swing. I'd also sit in  with various blues and rock bands (which is the music I started with in my early teens); all the while composing my own country/blues/ jazz rock material .

 I've writtten several Guitar instruction books in tab form;with CDs. Every song,and example from each of the books is on its corresponding CD;so you can hear exactly how it should sound.

  Book/CD titles:

 "Vintage Lap Steel Guitar Western Swing,and Country Blues" (Now sold out, out of print, not available at this time.)

" Vintage Lap Steel Guitar Rags, Jumps, and Stomps ".(Now out of print/ sold out/ no longer available) 

"Vintage Lap Steel for Blues & Rock"_  (out of print,and no longer available)     

"Vintage Lap Steel & Slide Guitar for Blues"_  Is now  available in my E bay listings

"Vintage Lap Steel Guitar for Blues & Country" _ (Out of print, and now available in my ebay lsitings)

"Lap Steel & Slide Guitar for Blues in E tuning"" _( Out of print, and no longer available)

 These are all limited edition printings and if a title looks of interest, best purchase that title while it's still available.

  Although I am not performing live at this time,if in the future I do, I will provide that information on this page.

 For a sample of my lap steel guitar playing,and my standard electric guitar playing, just click on this link:  www.myspace.com/jdowmusic . Or www.jukeboxalive.com/dow207  Statesboro Blues is example #11,taken from my instruction book/CDR....Vintage Lap Steel & Slide Guitar for Blues. "Little Candy Hearts" is one of my originals is written out in "Western Swing,and Country Blues" as example #9. "The Broken Spoke" is my take on "Careless Love" combined with the classic blues/rockabilly number "My Babe"; also available written out in my instruction book "Western Swing,and Country Blues" as example #3. Click on the above links for other free samples. Thanks for checking them out,I hope you enjoy them.

 ( Since writing these books, and recording the music to match them, I have been in conatct with so many people all over the USA, and so many international locations; and I want to thank you all for making these limited edition releases a success for me. This project is now winding down, and my most successful title on Blues in E tuning for Slide, and Lap Steel Guitar is the last title I have copies of left at this time early Fall '09. At some future date I may possibly re-release some of these titles again, but if I do or not... THANK YOU!  for the great communications, and kind comments. I hope I have been helpful in your development of your musical abilities. Keep on slidin' the blues! )