This comprehensive text covers the spectrum of fingerpicking technique and styles. Performance and stylistic notes, fingerstyle guitar solos and a listening guide are presented for each section of the book.
Sections include:
Folk Songs; Gospel Songs; Country Blues; Ragtime Blues; Rags and Dances; Appalachian Fiddle Tunes; Celtic Airs; Jigs and Reels; Classic Rags; Fingerstyle Jazz Guitar & Fingerstyle Guitar Duets. All solos are in notation and tablature and are written by noted fingerpicking guitarists Stefan Grossman, Elizabeth Cotten, Dean Sires, Ton Van Bergeyk, David Laibman, Rev. Gary Davis, Duck Baker, Seth Austen, Steve Tilston, John Morris, Sid Percy, Tom O'Farrell, Jim McLennan, Leo Wijnkamp Jr., Lasse Johansson and Claes Palmqvist.

Folk Songs
 - Death Come Creeping
 - Oh Papa
 - Sugarbabe
 - All My Friends Are Gone
 - Oh Babe, Ain't No Lie
 - Shake Sugaree
 - Delia
Gospel Songs
 - I Shall Not Be Moved
 - Nearer My God To Thee
 - Weeping and Wailing
 - Will The Circle Be Unbroken
Country Blues
 - Me O Blues
 - Bye Bye Blues
 - Careless Love
 - Future Blues
 - Mississippi Blues
 - Tickle Dew
 - County Line
 - Sitting on Top of the World
Ragtime Blues
 - See That Girl Sitting on the Fence
 - Little Boy, Little Boy, Who Made Your Britches
 - Truckin' My Blues
 - That Will Never Happen No More
 - Haag City Dance
 - Save Up Your Money
 - Slippin' Till My Gal Comes in Partner
Rags and Dances
 - Smokey Mokes
 - Dallas Rag
 - Cincinnati Flow Rag
 - Atlanta Rag
Appalaachian Fiddle Tunes
 - Boys, My Money's All Gone
 - Angeline the Baker
 - Drunken Wagoner
 - Last of Callahan
 - Black Mountain Rag
Celtic Airs, Jigs and Reels
 - Rights of Man
 - O'Carolan's Concerto
 - O'Carolan's Farewell to Music
 - Planxty Fanny Powers
 - The Fairie Queen
 - There's Beauty In Tears
 - Constantine Maguire
The Classics Rags
 - The Entertainer
 - Hilarity Rag
 - Harlem Rag
 - Fig Leaf Rag
 - American Beauty Rag
Fingerstyle Jazz Guitar
 - Sleepy Time Down South
 - Liza
 - Up A lazy River
 - Stompin' At The Savoy
 - In A Sentimental Mood
 - Sweet and Lovely
 - Goodbye Porkpie Hat
Fingerstyle Guitar Duets
 - Maple Leaf Rag
 - Kathleen Tyrell
 - Banish Misfortune
 - 'Round Midnight
 - The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife