Music-Genres & Styles-Blues

(Music Sales America). In this compact quick-reference chord-finder, Jack Long has gathered together all the most useful chords you'll ever need to play the blues ... perfect for improvising or jammingAuthor: Jack LongISBN-10: 0711977704ISBN-13: 9780711977709Publisher: Music SalesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/1999Pages: 48Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.27lbsSize: 9.68h x...

This volume explores concepts of freedom and bondage in the blues and argues that this genre of music explicitly calls for a reckoning while expressing faith in a secular justice to come. Placing blues music within its historical context of the post-Reconstruction South, Jim...

Master the blues with this comprehensive guitar tab book, featuring 50 classic blues songs simplified for easy learning.Features: 50 Classic Blues Songs: Includes legendary tracks from blues legends like Robert Johnson, Jimi Hendrix, and ZZ Top. Simplified Arrangements: Perfect for beginner and intermediate guitarists....

Master Modern Blues Guitar with Your Guitar Heroes!In the first book of its kind, 100 Modern Blues Guitar Licks is an official compilation of guitar licks from contemporary masters. This book contains 100 hand-picked licks from JTC's vast course library, meaning these licks come...

In 1977, when the Voyager deep space probes were launched on their journey into interstellar space, they each carried a gold record containing music from a wide variety of cultures. Of the four selections of American music chosen, one was a recording of Texas...

While all music genres incorporate religious imagery, the blues has its origin in the soil of the church. In its infancy, the blues was often dismissed as undermining the church's gospel songbook. The initial resistance, however, could not suppress the organic development of a...

The shades and structures of the blues had an immense impact on the poetry of Langston Hughes. Steven C. Tracy provides a cultural context for Hughes's work while revealing how Hughes mined Black oral and literary traditions to create his poetry. Comparing Hughes's poems...

At the height of the blues revival, Marina Bokelman and David Evans, young graduate students from California, made two trips to Louisiana and Mississippi and short trips in their home state to do fieldwork for their studies at UCLA. While there, they made recordings...

The first step towards experiencing the fun of playing blues music. This book & audio package will guide you through everything you need to know to begin playing blues drums. Topics include practice tips, note values, shuffle patterns, slow blues patterns, alternate cymbal patterns...

Author: David EvansISBN-10: 039953072XISBN-13: 9780399530722Publisher: Penguin Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2005Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.51lbsSize: 7.98h x 5.16w x 0.75dReview Citation(s): Ingram Advance 02/01/2005 pg. 82

In conversations on regional blues, the traditions of the Mississippi Delta, the Carolina Piedmont, Chicago, Houston, Memphis, New Orleans, and Los Angeles are frequently lauded. But until now, little attention has been paid to the Midwest, despite the presence and popularity of blues in...

(Guitar Educational). Teach yourself to play authentic blues guitar with this book and video teaching pack Each music example in the book is taught and performed on video by author and blues historian Dave Rubin. You'll also learn many tips, techniques and tools of...

Bassist and music writer Aaron Joy presents his series of music crossword puzzle books that look at the bands, albums and history, including famous and indie. This book includes 17 puzzles of some of the important contributors to the Louisiana blues scene and the...

In Segregating Sound, Karl Hagstrom Miller argues that the categories that we have inherited to think and talk about southern music bear little relation to the ways that southerners long played and heard music. Focusing on the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth,...

Volume 2 in the blues guitar book series gives you everything you need to know to play smokin' blues guitar. Packed with blues guitar licks and solos, essential blues guitar techniques, scales, and chords demonstrating some more advanced blues guitar concepts.With video lessons, backing...

"I can change during the course of a day," says Billy The Kid, the Dylan character played by Richard Gere in the wonderful, facinating biopic I'm Not There (2007). "I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep, I know for...

Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical tells the full story of the making and remaking of the most important musical in Broadway history. Drawing on exhaustive archival research and including much new information from early draft scripts and scores, this book reveals...

Terry Abrahamson parlayed his nights at the feet of MUDDY WATERS, HOWLIN' WOLF and HOUND DOG TAYLOR into a GRAMMY and life in a ROCK & ROLL DREAM. Evolving from a fan of MUDDY WATERS to "The Hoochie Coochie Man's"friend, traveling companion and songwriting...

*Includes pictures*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further readingLouis Armstrong once claimed that "Every time I close my eyes blowing that trumpet of mine-I look right in the heart of good old New Orleans...It has given me something to live for." This statement...

In a society where socialising, relaxing, and celebrating often involves knocking back a drink or two, quitting can seem impossible. In How I Quit Alcohol, trauma-informed sobriety coach Danni Carr and multi-award-winning blues musician Ash Grunwald offer a raw, honest, inspiring account of their...

The Mississippi Delta blues run as deep and mysterious as the beautiful land from where the music originates. Blues legends B.B. King, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson, and countless other greats came from this region. The Delta blues, born...

A powerful memoir of redemption from the son of blues legend John Lee HookerBorn in Detroit and exposed to the music world from an early age, John Lee Hooker Jr. began singing as a featured attraction in his father's shows as a teenager. His...

Author: Robben Ford, Tim Pettingale, Joseph AlexanderISBN-10: 1789334543ISBN-13: 9781789334548Publisher: WWW.Fundamental-Changes.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/15/2024Pages: 94Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.53lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.19d

Booker "Bukka" White (1905-1977) was one of the most important blues musicians of the twentieth century. The twelve songs he recorded in Chicago in 1940 are considered to be among the finest in country blues. In The Life and Music of Booker "Bukka" White:...

ISBN-10: 1913641198ISBN-13: 9781913641191Publisher: Supernova BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/20/2021Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.35lbsSize: 9.53h x 6.54w x 0.55d

Women have been at the dawn of the blues since Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey were singing about hard knocks and tough love in smoky bars. This book gives an overview of the early days of the blues and its development from the Mississippi...

In this innovatory new book the celebrated writer on the blues, Paul Oliver, rediscovers the wealth of neglected vocal traditions issued on Race records. When blues first reached a large audience it was through the 'Race records' issued specifically for black purchasers in the...

Unlock the Secrets of Modern Blues Slide Guitar... in Standard TuningWant to seamlessly switch between slide and regular playing without retuning? Ready to master modern blues with a unique, versatile approach?Guided by the acclaimed modern blues-fusion guitarist Allen Hinds, Modern Blues Slide Guitar presents...

"One of the greatest music writing and production teams in pop music history" - Smokey RobinsonAs the creative force behind Berry Gordy Jr.'s Motown Records in the mid-Sixties, a writing credit from Holland Dozier Holland was virtually a guarantee of chart success. From 'Stop!...

Are you a fan of folk and blues music and want to learn how to play it on the ukulele? Then "Folk and Blues for Ukulele: Easy-to-Play Songbook" is the perfect choice for you. This songbook features a carefully selected collection of classic folk...

(Guitar Educational). Major Blues for Guitar is the first in a series of studies written to give the serious musician a melodic approach to playing chords. There are hundreds of blues books out there, but none show how to put chords together melodically to...

The Story of Boogie-Woogie presents a comprehensive history of boogie-woogie from the early 20th century to the present, describing the style's appearance and development, its offshoots, and the pianists who made it famous, and studying its impact on rhythm and blues, urban blues, and...

Booker "Bukka" White (1905-1977) was one of the most important blues musicians of the twentieth century. The twelve songs he recorded in Chicago in 1940 are considered to be among the finest in country blues. In The Life and Music of Booker "Bukka" White:...

How do you create your own blues guitar voice from the licks of the iconic musicians?In Josh Smith's groundbreaking book Modern Blues Guitar Phrasing you'll learn to transform the classic licks of the musical legends into your own unique, expressive soloing language. You'll move...

(Guitar Play-Along). The Guitar Play-Along series will help you play your favorites songs quickly and easily. Just follow the tab, listen to the audio to hear how the guitar should sound, and then play along using the separate, sound-alike backing tracks Melody and lyrics...

Down On The Corner is the story of music performed on the streets, in subways, in parks, in schoolyards, on the back of flatbed trucks, and beyond, from the 1920s to the present day.One day around 1970, my father announced to me that he'd...

An innovative book that enables the student to play rhythm chords immediately to create exciting sounds on the harmonica, You Can Teach Yourself Blues Harp is designed to allow the beginning student to gain maximum results in the shortest amount of time. The student...

In conversations on regional blues, the traditions of the Mississippi Delta, the Carolina Piedmont, Chicago, Houston, Memphis, New Orleans, and Los Angeles are frequently lauded. But until now, little attention has been paid to the Midwest, despite the presence and popularity of blues in...

An idea 50 years in the making, this entertaining cookbook from a cult music legend is chock-full of stories and soul foodBefore there was Snoop Dogg, there was Swamp Dogg. Born Jerry Williams Jr., he first rose to fame as a 12-year-old soul singer...

Author: Albert MurrayISBN-10: 0679762205ISBN-13: 9780679762201Publisher: VintageLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/16/1996Pages: 112Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 8.04h x 5.28w x 0.42dReview Citation(s): Library Journal 01/01/1996 pg. 150New York Times 02/25/1996 pg. 32

For all of its apparent simplicity-a few chords, twelve bars, and a supposedly straightforward American character-blues music is a complex phenomenon with cultural significance that has varied greatly across different historical contexts. One Sound, Two Worlds examines the development of the blues in East...

A collection of studies composed for musicians who wish to extend themselves in improvisation, composition, sight reading and general musicianship skills. Each etude has a theoretical explanation, suggestions for performance and tips for practice routines. Two CDs of combo accompaniments performed by members of...

In the past, they were the Queens, strong women who took an unconventional path. They were the Blues Women, and they changed the face of music. To undertand their history is to understand not only a great deal about black history but about the...

Gig-worthy licks laid out sequentially over each chord change in the standard 12-bar blues form. Covers scales, chord voicing, chord progressions & rhythm figures, plus all regional blues styles. The disk includes MP3 files of the exercises.Author: Jesse GressISBN-10: 087930913XISBN-13: 9780879309138Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Sure to strike a chord with guitarists and blues fans, this authoritative and photo-filled volume includes over 150 of the genre's greatest players and performers from the prewar era to present. From blues pioneers like Robert Johnson, Son House, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and Memphis...

Songbook with 34 traditional Blues Songs - simply notated for the chromatic Harmonica.The tones of the melodies were prepared with simple symbols, the rhythm of the tones is given by the classical music notation.The sounds of the songs are available online in a sound...

(Music Sales America). Whether your favourite blues guitarist is Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Blind Blake, John Lee Hooker, Big Bill Broonzy, or Mississippi John Hurt, studying the basic techniques presented in this program is the first step toward being able to capture the essence...

"Everybody has to start somewhere. Businessmen start on the ground floor and try to work their way up the corporate ladder. Baseball players bide their time in the minor leagues wishing for an opportunity to move up and play in the majors. Musical compositions...

This is the definitive account of the LGBTQ trailblazers of early blues and a fascinating consideration of the intersection between music and LGBTQ history, from the award-winning Darryl W. Bullock.From the very beginning, the blues has had a close connection with the LGBTQ community....

Elmore James, Sonny Boy Williamson, Little Milton, and James Waller-all of these musical powerhouses furthered their recording careers at a little label on once-thriving Farish Street, the historic black district of Jackson, Mississippi. These blues, gospel, and R&B all-stars are featured in Trumpet Records:...