Blues category: 910 books

Cover of Guide to the Blues,Janis Joplin, Billie Holiday, Big Mama Thornton, Little Miss Cornshucks, Bessie Smith, T-Bone Walker, Jimmy Rushing Blues dance,

Guide to the Blues,Janis Joplin, Billie Holiday, Big Mama Thornton, Little Miss Cornshucks, Bessie Smith, T-Bone Walker, Jimmy Rushing Blues dance,

Blues Singer: List of blues musicians, blues albums, films about blues music,Blues guitar playing, British blues musicians

by Heinz Duthel
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013

Blues Singer: List of blues musicians, blues albums, films about blues music,Blues guitar playing, British blues musicians, Guide to the Blues,Janis Joplin, Billie Holiday, Big Mama Thornton, Little Miss Cornshucks, Bessie Smith, T-Bone Walker, Jimmy Rushing, Blues dance, The Influence Of...
Cover of Your Personal Book of Solo Fingerstyle Blues Guitar 1 : Fundamental
by Scott Su
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016

This book is the fundamental chapter of solo fingerstyle blues guitar.  This first book introduces basic elements of Blues music, specifically on chord, scale, rhythm, expressions and etc to do simple practices and trials.  And integrated melodic demo practices are designed in a later section, allowing...
Cover of Your Personal Book of Solo Fingerstyle Blues Guitar 2 : Advanced & Improvisation
by Scott Su
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016

This book TWO is a separate enhancement on  "Your Personal Book of Solo Fingerstyle Blues Guitar 1 : Fundamental". Book TWO is comprised of 2 big chapters. Chapter TWO includes different variations in rhythmic styles, fret positions of chord and changes in applications, integrated...
Cover of Country Blues Songbook
by Stefan Grossman
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1973

The shellac of the 20's, 30's and 40's caught the fleeting moment, the spirit of the times; the raunchy ragtime, barrelhouse boogie and the country blues. Some of those records will never be replaced. Some, never will be heard again. Many of those songs are here in printed form for the first time,...
Cover of Piano Playbook: Blues & Soul
by Wise Publications
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013

Piano Playbook: Blues & Soul includes superb new piano arrangements of 45 blues and soul classics, complete with vocal line and guitar chords, designed for intermediate to advanced players. These songs have been chosen to reflect the moods at the heart each genre. This allows Robert Johnson...
Cover of Strutture armoniche del Blues 2a Edizione
by Francesco Piccolo
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 5, 2015

Il libro prende in rassegna le strutture del blues e come queste si sono evolute a partire dagli inizi del secolo scorso fino ai giorni nostri. Viene prima analizzata la progressione standard, così come definita nella sua forma primordiale del Country Blues, cristallizzatasi nel periodo del Blues...
Cover of Blues Traveling

Blues Traveling

The Holy Sites of Delta Blues, Third Edition

by Steve Cheseborough
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2008

At a crossroads in the Mississippi Delta, Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the Devil so that he could become a guitar virtuoso and King of the Delta Blues. Blues Traveling: The Holy Sites of Delta Blues will tell you where that legendary deal was supposed to have been made and guide...
Cover of I'm Feeling the Blues Right Now

I'm Feeling the Blues Right Now

Blues Tourism in the Mississippi Delta

by Stephen A. King
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011

In I'm Feeling the Blues Right Now: Blues Tourism and the Mississippi Delta, Stephen A. King reveals the strategies used by blues promoters and organizers in Mississippi, both African American and white, local and state, to attract the attention of tourists. In the process, he reveals how promotional...
Cover of Nobody Knows Where the Blues Come From
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007

Musicians and music scholars rightly focus on the sounds of the blues and the colorful life stories of blues performers. Equally important and, until now, inadequately studied are the lyrics. The international contributors to Nobody Knows Where the Blues Come From explore this aspect of the blues...
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Broadcasting the Blues

Black Blues in the Segregation Era

by Paul Oliver
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014

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...
Cover of Listen to the Blues! Exploring a Musical Genre
by James E. Perone
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019

Unlike other books on the blues, which tend to focus on musician biographies, Listen to the Blues! devotes time to the compositions, recordings, and musical legacies of blues musicians from the early 20th century to the present. Although the author references musical structure, harmony, form, and...
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Early Blues

The First Stars of Blues Guitar

by Jas Obrecht
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015

Since the early 1900s, blues and the guitar have traveled side by side. This book tells the story of their pairing from the first reported sightings of blues musicians, to the rise of nationally known stars, to the onset of the Great Depression, when blues recording virtually came to a halt. Like...
Cover of Understanding Blues Progressions
by Francesco Piccolo
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016

The book reviews the blues structures and how these have evolved from the beginning of the last century to present day. The book first analyzes the standard progression. This progression, as defined in its primordial form of the Country Blues, crystallized in the Classic Blues period and was used...
Cover of 100 Books Every Blues Fan Should Own
by Edward Komara, Greg Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014

Search the Internet for the 100 best songs or best albums. Dozens of lists will appear from aficionados to major music personalities. But what if you not only love listening to the blues or country music or jazz or rock, you love reading about it, too. How do you separate what matters from what doesn’t...
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