About Red Dog Music BooksRed Dog Music Books is a family music company managed by Larry and Becky McCabe (husband and wife) in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of southwestern Virginia.
Larry's credentials include an education degree from the University of Arizona, more than thirty years of music teaching experience, eighty published music books, columns for
Living Blues Magazine and
Fingerstyle Guitar Magazine, and authorship of the
Roy Clark Fiddle Magic Method and
Roy Clark Bluegrass Banjo Bible.His music education includes correspondence study with the acclaimed Grove School of Music, Los Angeles; private guitar lessons from Western Swing great Eldon Shamblin; music theory lessons from renowned FAMU jazzmaster Lindsey Sarjeant; and additional study via correspondence with New York jazz guitar guru Alan DeMause.
Larry has played in many bands including blues, classic country, rockabilly, traditional Irish, and Cajun, and served on the prestigious W.C. Handy Blues Awards nominating committee for many years.
In the 1990s, he taught
History of Jazz Music and
History of Popular Music in America courses to adult education students at Florida State University. As an amateur WWII historian, Larry collected and edited 160 interviews for his book
Pearl Harbor and the American Spirit.
Becky's background includes a Master's Degree in instructional systems design (Florida State University), and an extensive career in that field. Among her hobbies and special interests are art, photography, and music; she has played bass and guitar in blues, Irish, and Cajun bands.
Becky manages our website and designs many of our Red Dog Music Book covers.
Together we handle all the production duties for our original books, including concept, research, instructional design, computer engraving, recording and mastering, cover design, printing, and distribution.
Red Dog Music Books are created "one at a time," the old-fashioned way. We feel that this attention to detail provides quality, function, and value for our customers.
In addition to our Red Dog books, we offer several popular books that Larry wrote for other music publishers.
Red Dog is our friendly redbone coonhound, Rufus, who lives with us and his coonhound sidekick, Abner, at our country property in southern Appalachia.
To contact us by standard mail:Red Dog Music Books
Post Office Box 13341
Roanoke, Virginia 24033
Larry@Reddogmusicbooks.com