When Mississippi John Hurt and the Reverend Gary Davis were sitting alone in their rooms in the 1920s figuring out how to make their guitars sing like pianos, no one could have anticipated that their efforts, emerging from a haze of poverty, would influence generations of guitarists thereafter. Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones and The Grateful Dead are some of the current-day legends who discovered the blues genre of these pioneers and adapted it to their own covers. Another contemporary who as a kid also recognized the genius in the blues fingerpicking of Hurt and Davis was Chicagoan Eric Lugosch, who likewise sat alone in his formative years in his room figuring out the puzzles of how it was all done. Lugosch, though, unlike the Stones and Dead, was intent on successfully duplicating the virtuosity and difficulty of the art of solo guitar. Fast forward several years later, and already a resident of the blues capital of the world in Chicago, Eric Lugosch found his place of residence to be fortuitous in helping him to claim his own bit of legend as a guitar instructor at the renowned Old Town School of Folk.