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Features classic blues artwork from the 1920s as well as a 19 track CD of pre-war blues songs Includes 19 track CD featuring songs from such artists as: Blind Lemon Jefferson, Skip James, Charley Patton, Ma Rainey, Mississippi Sheiks, Tommy Johnson, Furry Lewis and more!!
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The 2012 Classic Blues Artwork Calendar with 19-track CD is available now! Features classic blues artwork from the 1920s as well as a 19-track CD of pre-war blues songs from Charley Patton, Blind Blake, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Ida Cox, Charley Spand, Blind Joe Taggart, Lane Hardin, and Jenny Pope.
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Designed for devoted blues lovers and newcomers alike, this comprehensive, easy-to-use guide identifies thousands of topnotch CDs, albums, and tapes in all styles of the blues.
More than 935 blues artists are listed alphabetically, each with a brief biographical profile. These performers' best recordings—more than 6,100 in all—are then concisely reviewed as well as rated by noted music critics and journalists. Thirty historical essays plus supplemental "music maps" chart the roots and evol...
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Blues with a Feeling explores the life, times, and musical creations of a founder of the Chicago Blues style. Little Walter revolutionized blues harmonica playing, and is generally recognized as the greatest innovator in modern blues. Beginning in the early '50s as a sideman with the legendary Muddy Waters, Walter appeared on many of Muddy's classic recordings through the mid-'60s, even after striking out on his own. Walter had several hits, including the #1 R&B songs, "Juke" and "My Babe," and ...
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Black Blues In The Segregation Era by Paul Oliver
Broadcasting the Blues: Black Blues in the Segregation Era is based on Paul Oliver's award-winning radio broadcasts from the BBC that were created over several decades. It traces the social history of the blues in America, from its birth in the rural South through the heyday of sound recordings. Noted blues scholar Paul Oliver draws on decades of research and personal interviews with performers -- some of whom...
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The epic, rollicking, up-and-down life of Muddy Waters, who went from Mississippi farmhand to musical legend, who invented electric blues and created the template for the rock-and-roll band and its wild lifestyle, is brought into sharp focus in this widely acclaimed biography. photos.
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Chicago has always had a reputation as a ”wide open town” with a high tolerance for gangsters, illegal liquor, and crooked politicians. It has also been the home for countless black musicians and the birthplace of a distinctly urban blues—more sophisticated, cynical, and street-smart than the anguished songs of the Mississippi delta—a music called the Chicago blues. This is the history of that music and the dozens of black artists who congregated on the South and Near West Sides. Muddy Waters, B...
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By Art Tipaldi
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This book of postcards features thirty reproductions of album covers from classic blues recordings housed in the enviable vaults of the Concord Music Group. Including albums by Albert King, Willie Dixon, Odetta, the Reverand Gary Davis, and Memphis Slim, this collection concentrates (although not exclusively) on music made during the 1950s and 1960s, a prolific period that produced many classic and collectible blues recordings.
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Peter Guralnick's writings on music and musicians are unique in the literature of American popular culture. His first three books, Feel Like Going Home, Lost Highway, and Sweet Soul Music-which together form a sort of trilogy trace twentieth-century American popular music to its roots by bringing to life the people, the songs, and the performances that forever changed not only the American music scene but America itself. This vivid celebration of the building blocks of blues and early rock 'n'...
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These are just a few of Willie Dixon's contributions to blues, R&B, and rock'n'roll—songs performed by artists as varied as the Rolling Stones, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, ZZ Top, the Doors, Sonny Boy Williamson, the Grateful Dead, Van Morrison, Megadeth, Eric Clapton, Let Zepplin, Tesla, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Jeff Healey. I Am the Blues captures Willie Dixon's inimitable voice and character as he tells his life story: the segregation of Visksburg Mississippi, where...
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Living Blues Magazine Is Now Available Here! Cover feature story on Alligator's very own Joe Louis Walker. Plus Lee Gates, Kirk Fletcher, Roscoe Chenier, the 2012 Blues Festival Guide and much more.
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Peter Guralnick's writings on music an musicians are unique in the literature of American popular culture. His first three books, Feel Like Going Home, Lost Highway, and Sweet Soul Music-which together form a sort of trilogy that has achieved classic status-trace twentieth-century American popular music to its roots by bringing to life the people, the songs, and the performances that forever changed not only the American music scene but America itself.
This stirring tribute to American roo...
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On February 15, 1981, Michael Bloomfield’s lifeless body was found locked inside a car on a side street in San Francisco. The police were called in, and the body lay unclaimed in the morgue until its identity could be ascertained. Thus ended the troubled life of a world-class bluesman who changed an entire generation of music lovers and guitar players. This book traces the rise and fall of one of the most talented, charismatic, and influential guitarists of the 1960s. Born into a wealthy family,...
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One of the greatest artists the blues ever produced, Howlin' Wolf was a musical giant in every way. He stood six foot three, weighed almost three hundred pounds, wore size sixteen shoes, and poured out his darkest sorrows onstage in a voice that captured all the pain of growing up black and poor in Jim Crow Mississippi. Half a century after his first hits, his sound still terrifies and inspires.
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This 432 page book takes you through a complete history of the blues with hundred of photos and memorabillia. By far the best complete book of the blues to date. At root, the blues is rich in its simplicity, but it has flowered across the years in a variety of rare complexity. Perhaps no form of popular art is more immediately appealing than the blues, yet so rewards a thorough knowledge of its finer points. In eleven authoritative essays commissioned especially for the book, Nothing But the Blu...
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by Mary Lou Sullivan w/foreword by Johnny Winter
"I love this book..it's exactly what happened. The good stuff was great and the bad stuff was horrible. Some of the memories were painful, but I'm glad they're in here. This book is perfect--there isn't anything left out." Johnny Winter
Johnny Winter is one of the greatest guitar players of all time. This is the story that made him a legend. From toughing it out in Texas to his histo...
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by Hugh Gregory
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Roy Buchanan left home in 1956 with his guitar and a dream, as rock 'n' roll grabbed America. For the next 30 years he traveled the country, soaking up influences and melding blues, country, jazz, and rock like no player before or since. He preferred to play clubs, yet he reached Carnegie Hall. He is said to have spurned an offer to play for the Rolling Stones. He rebuffed Bob Dylan, John Lennon, and Paul McCartney. Hailed as the genius to succeed Jimi Hendrix, he seemed disinterested. A contrad...
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From The Pages Of Guitar World Magazine
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1965-1970 foreword by John Mayall By Christopher Hjort.
This definitive look at the British blues explosion centers around three guitarists: Peter Green, Mick Taylor, and especially Eric Clapton. Describing the groups they played in from 1965 to 1970 – including John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Cream, Fleetwood Mac, Blind Faith and the Rolling Stones – the book is presented in an engaging day-by-day format. With a wealth of illustrations and never-before-published details...
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by Peter Guralnick
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Photos, Mementos & Music From B.B. King's Collection by B.B. King & Dick Waterman
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Francis Davis's The History of the Blues is a groundbreaking rethinking of the blues that fearlessly examines how race relations have altered perceptions of the music. Tracing its origins from the Mississippi Delta to its amplification in Chicago right after World War II, Davis argues for an examination of the blues in its own right, not just as a precursor to jazz and rock 'n' roll. The lives of major figures such as Robert Johnson, Charlie Patton, and Leadbelly, in addition to contemporary art...
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Where did Charlie Parker first play with Dizzy Gillespie? What are the coolest clubs in Chicago? Which city has the largest jazz museum? Where is Howlin’ Wolf buried? The answers can be found in The Da Capo Jazz and Blues Lover's Guide to the U.S., an insiders look at all the places where jazz and blues live, from national clubs to unmarked holes in the wall, in twenty-five cities and the Mississippi Delta. With the most up-to-date listings for festivals, historic theaters, record stores, and ra...
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By Karen Hanson.
More blues musicians live and work in the city of Chicago than in any other city in the world, and more clubs devoted entirely to the blues thrive here than in any other metropolitan area. A more in-depth look at the city's blues scene than typical guidebooks offer, this up-to-date resource offers both newcomers and longtime devotees a handy and informative way to enrich their experience of this celebrated musical genre and city.
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A quiz deck by Cary Wolfson (aka the Red Rooster). This deck of 48 cards explores the blues in a question and answer format that is equally satisfying as a raucous test of multiple players' blues knowledge or as a quiet solitary read. Combining solid scholarship with wry, informal prose, What Do You Know About the Blues? does its subject proud and is a fun little informative way to learn more about this wonderful music. Most cards include tips for recommended listening. A perfect little gift fo...
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Universally recognized as one of the greatest blues artists, Memphis Minnie (1897–1973) wrote and recorded hundreds of songs, among them the famous "Bumble Bee Blues," "I'm Talking About You," and "What's the Matter with the Mill?" Blues people as diverse as Muddy Waters, Johnny Shines, Big Mama Thornton, and Chuck Berry have acknowledged her as a major influence. At a time when most female vocalists sang Tin Pan Alley material, Minnie write her own lyrics and accompanied her singing with magnif...
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James Fraher's photographs have graced numerous books, magazines and CD covers, and have been exhibited in museums and galleries in the US and Europe. This soulful calendar showcases twelve of his portraits: Lonnie Pitchford, Lightnin' Hopkins, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Lester Davenport, Beverly "Guitar" Watkins, Joe Louis Walker, Muddy Waters, Luther Allison, Michael Roach, Shemekia Copeland, Jimmie Lee Robinson, & Junior Wells. Each photograph is accompanied by a concise biography; birthdays ...
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