American
Roots Music
by Robert Santelli (Editor), et al
Hardcover: 240 pages
Harry N Abrams; ISBN: 0810914328; (September 2001)
The
Blues Highway: New Orleans to Chicago, a Travel and Music Guide
by Richard Knight, Emma Longhurst (Contributor)
Follows Highway 61 from New Orleans to Nashville and Chicago's South
Side with biographical notes and traveller's tips. Db.
Paperback: 304 pages
Trail Blazer Pubns; ISBN: 1873756437; (October 2001)
The B.B. King Companion: Five Decades of Commentary
by Richard Kostelanetz
Listed under B.B. King
Blues
People : Negro Music in White America
Imamu Amiri Baraka, et al
"The path the slave took to 'citizenship' is what I want to look at.
And I make my analogy through the slave citizen's music -- through the
music that is most closely associated with him: blues and a later, but
parallel development, jazz... [If] the Negro represents, or is symbolic
of, something in and about the nature of American culture, this certainly
should be revealed by his characteristic music." So says Amiri Baraka in
the Introduction to Blues People, his classic work on the place of jazz...
Paperback / Published 1983 |
Bill
Wyman's Blues Odyssey: A Journey to Music's Heart & Soul
by Bill Wyman, Richard Havers
Hardcover: 400 pages
DK Publishing; ISBN: 0789480468; 1st edition (September
1, 2001)
Blues All around Me: The Autobiography of B. B. King
by B. B. King, David Ritz (Contributor)
Listed under B.B. King
Blues
Legacies and Black Feminism : Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie
Holiday
by Angela Y. Davis
Paperback - 427 pages 1 Vintage edition (February 1999)
Random House; ISBN: 0679771263
Blues Harmonica Collection
by Mekelvy Harmonica Collection, David McKelvy
Listed under Harmonica
Chasin'
That Devil Music: Searching for the Blues
by Gayle Dean Wardlow, Edward Komara (Editor)
Chasin' That Devil Music has the feel of a documentary about the making
of a thrilling motion picture. The main focus is on the Delta blues singers
of the early 20th century--artists such as Charley Patton, Tommy Johnson,
Son House, and Blind Lemon Jefferson who've achieved near-mythic status
in blues circles. In addition, many of the articles gathered in this splendidly
illustrated volume capture the process and people involved in tracking
long-lost recordings nearly as elusive as the performers who made them.
Here, for example, is the story of author/blues scholar Gayle Dean Wardlow's
three-year hunt for the death certificate of Robert Johnson, the celebrated
Mississippi bluesman and a figure whose legend has grown greater with each
year since his much-debated death in 1938. The text here is nearly as raw
in spots as the music that sparked it, but, as with those sounds (which
can be heard on a terrific CD sampler included with the book), enthusiasts
will find Chasin' That Devil Music riveting. --Steven Stolder - Amazon.com
Paperback: 271 pages
Backbeat Books; ISBN: 0879305525; Book & Cd edition
(1998)
Children
of the Blues: 40 Musicians Shaping a New Generation of Blues Tradition
by Art Tipaldi
(Paperback -- February 9, 2002)
Conversation
With the Blues
Paul Oliver (Editor)
Blues singers, guitarists and pianists speak of their lives and of
surviving their experiences of poverty and discrimination by singing and
playing the blues. Copiously illustrated with Paul Oliver's photographs,
the book provides a rare glimpse of African American music at a time when
the South was still segregated, while the accompanying CD captures in sound
the voices of the singers themselves.
Hardcover / Published 1997 |
The
Complete Book of Doo-Wop
by Anthony J. Gribin, et al
(Paperback -- March 2000)
Blues Saxophone: An In-Depth Look at the Styles of the Masters
by Dennis Taylor
Demonstrates the work of 16 sax masters from Chicago blues players
through to modern jazz.
Listed under Saxophone
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Deep
Blues
by Robert Palmer
Paperback: Viking Press
ISBN: 0140062238; Reprint edition (May 1995) |
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Forever
Faithful! A Study of Florence Ballard and the Supremes
by Randall Wilson, et al
(Paperback -- February 1, 1999)
Give the Drummers Some!: The Great Drummers of R&B, Funk &
Soul
by Jim Payne, Harry Weinger (Editor)
Listed under Percussion
Can't Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters
by Robert Gordon, Keith Richards
Listed under Muddy Waters
The
Hero and the Blues
by Albert Murray
Paperback:
Vintage Books; ISBN: 0679762205; Reprint edition (January
1996)
Marvin Gaye: What's Going On and the Last Days of the Motown Sound
by Ben Edmunds, Ben Edmonds
Listed under Marvin Gaye
Peter Green -- Founder of Fleetwood Mac
by Martin Celmins, B. B. King
Listed under Fleetwood Mac
Joel
Whitburn Presents Top R & B Singles, 1942-1999
by Joel Whitburn
(Hardcover -- February 2000)
John
Lee Hooker- A Blues Legend : With Notes & Tablature
by John Lee Hooker
Book Description: A classic collection of 20 songs from this
legendary blues guitarist, including: Boom Boom * It Serves Me Right To
Suffer * Louise * One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer * and many more.
Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation; (April
1991)
Only
the Strong Survive: Memoirs of a Soul Survivor (Black Music and Expressive
Culture)
by Jerry Butler, Earl Smith (Contributor)
(Hardcover -- October 2000)
Michael
Bloomfield: If You Love These Blues
by Jan Mark Wolkin, et al
Hardcover: 272 pages
Backbeat Books; ISBN: 0879306173; (October 30, 2000)
T-Bone
Walker Collection
This terrific collection features 20 tunes from wildly influential
(B.B. King, Chuck Berry, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Jimi Hendrix, to name
but a few) blues legend T-Bone Walker, to whom electric blues and rock
music owe their existence. Songs include: Call It Stormy Monday - DonÕt
Leave Me Baby - I Got a Break Baby - ItÕs a Low Down Dirty Deal
- Mean Old World - So Blue Blues - T-Bone Boogie - The Time Seems So Long
- Vida Lee - and more. Includes an introduction by Dave Rubin and a selected
discography.
Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation; (August
1999)
Stormy
Monday: The T-Bone Walker Story
by Helen Oakley Dance, B. B. King
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press; (December
1987)
Stevie Ray Vaughan: Caught in the Crossfire
by Joe Nick Patoski, et al
Listed under Stevie Ray Vaughan
Lost
Highway: Journeys & Arrivals of American Musicians
by Peter Guralnick
(Paperback -- July 1999)
Boogie Man : The Adventures of John Lee Hooker in the American Twentieth
Century
by Charles Shaar Murray, Shaar Charles Murray
Out of Print - Try Used
Books
The Very Best of John Lee Hooker : Eighteen Note-For-Note Transcriptions
from the Original Recording
by Richard Devinck
Out of Print - Try Used
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