Blues category: 910 books
by Davide Pannozzo
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Dopo il primo volume, riservato interamente all’improvvisazione, questo secondo è dedicatoall’accompagnamento, un inesauribile e spesso inesplorato universo. Questo manuale si deve intendere come un luogo da cui attingere idee. GUITARlab nasce infatti da tale presupposto e ha lo scopo di aiutarti...
Lady Sings the Blues
The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
Originally released by Doubleday in 1956, Harlem Moon Classics celebrates the publication with the fiftieth-anniversary edition of Billie Holiday’s unforgettable and timeless memoir, updated with an insightful introduction and a revised discography, both written by celebrated music writer David...
by Adolfo de la Parra
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
Canned Heat's Story of Music Drugs Death Sex and Survival
The Original Guitar Hero and the Power of Music
The Legendary Lonnie Johnson, Music, and Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Lonnie Johnson (18941970) was a virtuoso guitarist who influenced generations of musicians from Django Reinhardt to Eric Clapton to Bill Wyman and especially B. B. King. Born in New Orleans, he began playing violin and guitar in his father’s band at an early age. When most of his family was wiped out...
Rhythm And The Blues
A Life in American Music
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
Atlantic Records partner and producer, Wexler presided over the evolution of the modern music business and made prodigious contributions through to our cultural history. Wexler has worked with the entire range of American genius: Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, and others. 75 photographs.
Fever: Little Willie John
A Fast Life, Mysterious Death, and the Birth of Soul
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Little Willie John lived for a fleeting 30 years, but his dynamic and daring sound left an indelible mark on the history of music. His deep blues, rollicking rock ‘n’ roll and swinging ballads inspired a generation of musicians, forming the basis for what we now know as soul music.
Born in...
Sweet Soul Music
Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
A gripping narrative that captures the tumult and liberating energy of a nation in transition, Sweet Soul Music is an intimate portrait of the legendary performers--Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, James Brown, Solomon Burke, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, and Al Green among them--who merged gospel and rhythm...
by Rev. Keith A. Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
The Stevie Ray Vaughan Buying Guide is an illustrated, album by album overview of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame guitarist’s too-brief career including a condensed artist biography, a discography with complete song listings, and even a select discography of bootleg albums, all compiled by the Rev....
by Mezz Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Mezz Mezzrow was a boy from Chicago who learned to play the sax in reform school and pursued a life in music and a life of crime. He moved from Chicago to New Orleans to New York, working in brothels and bars, bootlegging, dealing drugs, getting hooked, doing time, producing records, and playing...
The World Don't Owe Me Nothing
The Life and Times of Delta Bluesman Honeyboy Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2000
This vivid oral snapshot of an America that planted the blues is full of rhythmic grace. From the son of a sharecropper to an itinerant bluesman, Honeyboy’s stories of good friends Charlie Patton, Big Walter Horton, Little Walter Jacobs, and Robert Johnson are a godsend to blues fans. History buffs...
The Power of Black Music
Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 1996
When Jimi Hendrix transfixed the crowds of Woodstock with his gripping version of "The Star Spangled Banner," he was building on a foundation reaching back, in part, to the revolutionary guitar playing of Howlin' Wolf and the other great Chicago bluesmen, and to the Delta blues tradition...
Murray Talks Music
Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
The year 2016 will mark the centennial of the birth of Albert Murray (1916–2013), who in thirteen books was by turns a lyrical novelist, a keen and iconoclastic social critic, and a formidable interpreter of jazz and blues. Not only did his prizewinning study Stomping the Blues (1976) influence...
The Story of Boogie-Woogie
A Left Hand Like God
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
The Story of Boogie-Woogie: A Left Hand Like God examines the socio-historical background of the boogie-woogie piano style, from its early appearances in the barrelhouses of lumber, turpentine, and railroad camps in the southern United States, to its emergence at rent parties in Chicago and St. Louis,...
Love in Vain
A Vision of Robert Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
Robert Johnson was undoubtedly the most outstanding of the Mississippi Delta blues musicians and also one of the first inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but his short life remains steeped in mystery and wrapped in some of the most enduring legends of modern music. Love in Vain is Alan Greenberg’s...