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  • After August: Blues, August Wilson, and American Drama by Maley, Patrick
    Patrick Maley

    After August: Blues, August Wilson, and American Drama

    Critics have long suggested that August Wilson, who called blues "the best literature we have as black Americans," appropriated blues music for his plays. After August insists instead that Wilson's work is direct blues expression. Patrick Maley argues that Wilson was not a dramatist...
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  • After August: Blues, August Wilson, and American Drama by Maley, Patrick
    Patrick Maley

    After August: Blues, August Wilson, and American Drama

    Critics have long suggested that August Wilson, who called blues "the best literature we have as black Americans," appropriated blues music for his plays. After August insists instead that Wilson's work is direct blues expression. Patrick Maley argues that Wilson was not a dramatist...
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  • Legends of the Blues [With CD (Audio)] by Stout, William
    William Stout

    Legends of the Blues [With CD (Audio)]

    Robert Johnson, Ma Rainey, Billie Holiday, Howlin' Wolf, Bessie Smith, Muddy Waters--say their names out loud and you can just hear the blues. Now, acclaimed artist William Stout visualizes these artists and their music with 100 stunning portraits. This graphically powerful collection includes profiles...
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  • Blues Piano Walking-Bass by Tyler, S. J.
    S. J. Tyler

    Blues Piano Walking-Bass

    Blues piano walking bass fill in laterAuthor: S. J. TylerISBN-10: 1919611894ISBN-13: 9781919611891Publisher: Southern House PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/16/2023Pages: 94Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.53lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.19d
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  • The Life, Aftermath, and Legacy of Elmo Lewis by Athridge, Thomas P.
    Thomas P. Athridge

    The Life, Aftermath, and Legacy of Elmo Lewis

    A 21st Century Reexamination of the Story and Contemporary Impact of Brian Jones-Brian's short life was filled with controversy, violence, misogyny, and betrayal from a wide variety of sources. Brian had a profound dark side to him that hurt him on many different levels:...
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  • Sue Foley: Guitar Woman by Foley, Sue
    Sue Foley

    Sue Foley: Guitar Woman

    Join award-winning guitarist Sue Foley as she shares her influences and teaches the techniques behind her unique blues sound. Sue Foley: Guitar Woman explores the history of women in blues music, told through Sue's live performances and candid stories. Discover Texas blues, Piedmont blues,...
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  • Elegant Soul: The Life and Music of Gene Harris by Harris, Janie
    Janie Harris

    Elegant Soul: The Life and Music of Gene Harris

    "Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press"Gene Harris, the "Blues Man From Boise," as the "Wall Street Journal" once called him, died at the start of a new millennium, but he left a legacy of music that will outlive us all....
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  • Early Downhome Blues: A Musical and Cultural Analysis by Titon, Jeff Todd
    Jeff Todd Titon

    Early Downhome Blues: A Musical and Cultural Analysis

    Early Downhome Blues: A Musical and Cultural AnalysisAuthor: Jeff Todd TitonISBN-10: 0807844829ISBN-13: 9780807844823Publisher: University of North Carolina PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/28/1995Pages: 340Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.64lbsSize: 10.01h x 7.03w x 1.03d
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  • Easiest Blues Harp Book by Phil Duncan
    Phil Duncan

    Easiest Blues Harp Book

    Mel Bay's Easiest Blues Harp Book is the ideal way to get started playing today's blues harmonica styles. First, you will learn the basic techniques needed to play blues harp, such as lip blocking, single tone, bending, the slide, tremolo, and vibrato. Then, you'll...
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  • Singing the Congregation: How Contemporary Worship Music Forms Evangelical Community by Ingalls, Monique M.
    Monique M. Ingalls

    Singing the Congregation: How Contemporary Worship Music Forms Evangelical Community

    Contemporary worship music shapes the way evangelical Christians understand worship itself. Author Monique M. Ingalls argues that participatory worship music performances have brought into being new religious social constellations, or "modes of congregating". Through exploration of five of these modes--concert, conference, church, public, and...
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  • EARLY BLUES AND JUG BAND LYRICS FROM THE 1920s!: Over 80 Party Songs for Ages 16 to 100 by Burgess, Wes
    Wes Burgess

    EARLY BLUES AND JUG BAND LYRICS FROM THE 1920s!: Over 80 Party Songs for Ages 16 to 100

    This book has plenty of early blues and jug band songs that are waiting to become your favorite music to hear, sing, and play. If you like music, don't put this down before you sample the verses and sing them in your head. If...
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  • Out of the Blue: Life on the Road with Muddy Waters by Bisesi, Brian
    Brian Bisesi

    Out of the Blue: Life on the Road with Muddy Waters

    Out of the Blue: Life on the Road with Muddy Waters begins with a moment lifted from a young musician's dreams. Brian Bisesi, a guitarist barely out of his teens, is invited on stage to fill in for a missing member of the band...
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  • The 21st Century Pro Method: Blues Guitar -- Rural, Urban, and Modern Styles, [With CD] by Latarski, Don
    Don Latarski

    The 21st Century Pro Method: Blues Guitar -- Rural, Urban, and Modern Styles, [With CD]

    The most complete method for the modern blues guitarist. This book covers basic blues techniques, soloing over the I, IV, and V chords, and the differences between authentic blues soloing, blues-rock, funk, and jazz-oriented solos. Plus it demonstrates classic blues phrases, intros, endings, and...
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  • Blues: An Anthology by Handy, W. C.
    W. C. Handy

    Blues: An Anthology

    Originally published in 1926, this classic collection of great blues songs is arranged for piano and voice. Among the first black men to write and publish blues music, Handy did more than anyone else to make blues popular and accepted. Considered the most famous...
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  • Ocarina 12/10 Songbook - 34 traditional Blues Songs: + Sounds online by Schipp, Bettina
    Bettina Schipp

    Ocarina 12/10 Songbook - 34 traditional Blues Songs: + Sounds online

    Liederbuch (in deutsch und english) mit 34 traditionelle Blues Songs - einfach notiert f? die Okarina mit 10 bzw. 12 Lhern.Die Te der Melodien wurden mit Griffbildern f? die Okarina aufbereitet, die Rhythmik der Te gibt der Liedtext und / oder die klassische Notenschrift...
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  • Out of the Blue: Life on the Road with Muddy Waters by Bisesi, Brian
    Brian Bisesi

    Out of the Blue: Life on the Road with Muddy Waters

    Out of the Blue: Life on the Road with Muddy Waters begins with a moment lifted from a young musician's dreams. Brian Bisesi, a guitarist barely out of his teens, is invited on stage to fill in for a missing member of the band...
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  • Acoustic Blues Guitar by Sultan, Kenny
    Kenny Sultan

    Acoustic Blues Guitar

    (Guitar). This book for intermediate-level guitarists is a follow-up to Kenny's Introduction to Acoustic Blues . It covers blues in five different keys and positions, and incorporates slide or bottleneck playing in both open and standard tunings. All songs are primarily fingerstyle with a...
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  • The Book of Blues - Bb version: Bb Version by Introcaso, Eduardo
    Eduardo Introcaso

    The Book of Blues - Bb version: Bb Version

    A step-by-step guide to learning how to play the Blues.Scales, arpeggios, phrases, licks, theoretical explanations, variations in harmony, different types of Blues, etc, to learn to improvise by playing.65-page book of sheet music to play over mp3 tracks. There are 92 music tracks! 45...
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  • Frankie Finds the Blues by Harper, Joel
    Joel Harper

    Frankie Finds the Blues

    After attending a concert with his grandmother, Frankie finds his guitar, determined to learn to fingerpick and, with the help of a homeless man, begins to play the blues.Author: Joel HarperISBN-10: 0971425477ISBN-13: 9780971425477Publisher: Freedom ThreeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2019Pages: 36Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 11.20h x 9.30w x...
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  • History of the Blues by Quill, Charles
    Charles Quill

    History of the Blues

    Author: Charles QuillISBN-10: 1435889525ISBN-13: 9781435889521Publisher: Rosen Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2003Pages: 28Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.10lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.07d
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  • Smokin' Blues Guitar [With DVD] by Rubin, Dave
    Dave Rubin

    Smokin' Blues Guitar [With DVD]

    (Guitar Educational). Texas blues guitar legend Smokin' Joe Kubek and acclaimed author and music historian Dave Rubin have teamed up to create this one-of-a-kind DVD/book bundle, featuring a high-definition DVD with Smokin' Joe himself demonstrating loads of electric blues licks, riffs, concepts, and techniques...
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  • Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey by McCormick, Robert Mack
    Robert Mack McCormick

    Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey

    The drama of In Cold Blood meets the stylings of a Coen brothers film in this long-lost manuscript from musicologist Robert "Mack" McCormick, whose research on blues icon Robert Johnson's mysterious life and death became as much of a myth as the musician himself...
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  • Mississippi Blues Today by Nicholson, Stuart
    Stuart Nicholson

    Mississippi Blues Today

    The Blues, that unique form of African-American music, continues to hold a fascination with each successive generation of young people. Scots-born Londoner Robert Nicholson is just one such person. Grabbed first as a teenager by the white blues sounds of the Rolling Stones and...
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  • Barrelhouse Words: A Blues Dialect Dictionary by Calt, Stephen
    Stephen Calt

    Barrelhouse Words: A Blues Dialect Dictionary

    This fascinating compendium explains the most unusual, obscure, and curious words and expressions from vintage blues music. Utilizing both documentary evidence and invaluable interviews with a number of now-deceased musicians from the 1920s and '30s, blues scholar Stephen Calt unravels the nuances of more...
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  • Spirit of the Century: Our Own Story by The Blind Boys of Alabama
    The Blind Boys of Alabama

    Spirit of the Century: Our Own Story

    An insider history of the Blind Boys of Alabama, the longest running group in American music, and the untold story of their world, written with band members and key musical colleagues. The Blind Boys of Alabama are the quintessential Gospel vocal group, and the...
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  • Blowin' Like Hell by Barry, Paul
    Paul Barry

    Blowin' Like Hell: The William Clarke Story

    From the ghetto clubs of South-Central Los Angeles to International fame, William Clarke will go down as one of the greatest and most innovative blues harmonica players of all time. Clarke's life was marked with much adversity and many challenges. From a tough upbringing...
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  • Conversations with Albert Murray by Maguire, Roberta S.
    Roberta S. Maguire

    Conversations with Albert Murray

    As a cultural critic, biographer, essayist, and novelist, Albert Murray has had a wide-ranging and profound influence on American art in the decades since the Second World War. Artists as diverse as Walker Percy, Romare Bearden, and Wynton Marsalis have drawn from Murray and...
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  • Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock 'n' Roll by Birnbaum, Larry
    Larry Birnbaum

    Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock 'n' Roll

    An essential work for rock fans and scholars, Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock 'n' Roll surveys the origins of rock 'n' roll from the minstrel era to the emergence of Bill Haley and Elvis Presley. Unlike other histories of rock, Before Elvis offers...
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  • Shreveport Sounds in Black & White by Lornell, Kip
    Kip Lornell

    Shreveport Sounds in Black & White

    To borrow words from Stan "The Record Man" Lewis, Shreveport, Louisiana, is one of this nation's most important "regional-sound cities." Its musical distinctiveness has been shaped by individuals and ensembles, record label and radio station owners, announcers and disc jockeys, club owners and sound...
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  • The Inconvenient Lonnie Johnson: Blues, Race, Identity by Simon, Julia
    Julia Simon

    The Inconvenient Lonnie Johnson

    Lonnie Johnson is a blues legend. His virtuosity on the blues guitar is second to none, and his influence on artists from T-Bone Walker and B. B. King to Eric Clapton is well established. Yet Johnson mastered multiple instruments. He recorded with jazz icons...
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  • Acoustic Blues Guitar Styles [With CD] by Sandberg, Larry
    Larry Sandberg

    Acoustic Blues Guitar Styles [With CD]

    Acoustic Blues Guitar Styles is an introduction to fingerstyle acoustic blues guitar, the style made popular by Robert Johnson, Bill Broonzy, and Mance Lipscomb. Following the success of the popular Acoustic Guitar Styles, Larry Sandberg's Acoustic Blues Guitar Styles is an instructional book geared...
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  • Bars, Blues, and Booze: Stories from the Drink House by Edwards, Emily D.
    Emily D. Edwards

    Bars, Blues, and Booze: Stories from the Drink House

    Bars, Blues, and Booze collects lively bar tales from the intersection of black and white musical cultures in the South. Many of these stories do not seem dignified, decent, or filled with uplifting euphoria, but they are real narratives of people who worked hard...
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  • Mastering Blues Guitar: The Complete Electric Blues Guitar Method [With DVD] by Riker, Wayne
    Wayne Riker

    Mastering Blues Guitar: The Complete Electric Blues Guitar Method [With DVD]

    This power-packed conclusion to The Complete Blues Guitar Method is an advanced method for blues guitarists, and is also great for rock players who want a blues edge. Mastering Blues Guitar features in-depth lessons on blues scales, composite scales, the Mixolydian mode, arpeggio superimpositions,...
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  • Easy Blues Piano: For Beginners by Tyler, S. J.
    S. J. Tyler

    Easy Blues Piano: For Beginners

    A beginners guide to learning to play blues piano.Easy blues piano aims to help the beginning blues pianist take their first steps into the world of blues music. It covers the basics with easy to understand clear explanations and includes example pieces throughout that...
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  • King of the Delta Blues: The Life and Music of Charlie Patton by Wardlow, Gayle Dean
    Gayle Dean Wardlow

    King of the Delta Blues: The Life and Music of Charlie Patton

    Born 130 years ago in the heart of Mississippi, Charlie Patton (c. 1891-1934) is considered by many to be a father of the Delta blues. With his bullish baritone voice and his fluid slide guitar touch, Patton established songs like "Pony Blues," "A Spoonful...
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  • Say No to the Devil: The Life and Musical Genius of Rev. Gary Davis by Zack, Ian
    Ian Zack

    Say No to the Devil: The Life and Musical Genius of Rev. Gary Davis

    Who was the greatest of all American guitarists? You probably didn't name Gary Davis, but many of his musical contemporaries considered him without peer. Bob Dylan called Davis "one of the wizards of modern music." Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead--who took lessons with...
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  • The British Blues Network: Adoption, Emulation, and Creativity by Kellett, Andrew
    Andrew Kellett

    The British Blues Network: Adoption, Emulation, and Creativity

    Beginning in the late 1950s, an influential cadre of young, white, mostly middle-class British men were consuming and appropriating African-American blues music, using blues tropes in their own music and creating a network of admirers and emulators that spanned the Atlantic. This cross-fertilization helped...
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  • Talkin' to Myself: Blues Lyrics, 1921-1942 by Taft, Michael
    Michael Taft

    Talkin' to Myself: Blues Lyrics, 1921-1942

    Talkin' to Myself: Blues Lyrics, 1921-1942 is a compendium of lyrics by the great blues recording artists of the classic blues era. It includes over 2000 songs, transcribed directly from the original recordings, making it by far the most comprehensive and accurate collection of...
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  • Play Ukulele - 30 traditional Blues Songs: Deutsch & English - Tabs & Online Sounds by Schipp, Bettina
    Bettina Schipp

    Play Ukulele - 30 traditional Blues Songs: Deutsch & English - Tabs & Online Sounds

    Liederbuch (in deutsch und english) mit 30 Bearbeitungen traditioneller Blues Songs f? die Ukulele.Alle Lieder sind mit Tabulaturen f? das Fingerpicking notiert, die Arrangements sind leicht bis mittelschwer gesetzt - f? leicht fortgeschrittene und fortgeschrittene Fans der Ukulele.Die Aufnahmen der St?ke sind online in...
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  • Song Atlas by Ströhl, Andreas
    Andreas Strl

    Song Atlas

    Song Atlas is a unique piece of social history by a German rhythm and blues fan who traveled the United States searching for the places referred to in the great blues and rock songs he loved so much. But his investigation of place and...
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  • The Blues Book: Easy Guitar by Hal Leonard Corp
    Hal Leonard Corp

    The Blues Book: Easy Guitar

    (Easy Guitar). Easy arrangements of 81 super blues tunes: Cross Road Blues * Double Trouble * I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man * Killing Floor * Mean Old World * Route 66 * Statesboro Blues * Sweet Home Chicago * Trouble in Mind * dozens...
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  • Negotiating Temporal Differences: Blues, Jazz and Narrativity in African Culture by Raussert, Wilfried
    Wilfried Raussert

    Negotiating Temporal Differences: Blues, Jazz and Narrativity in African Culture

    Exploring the temporal dimension of African American music in its development from early forms of blues and jazz to the free and fast-paced sequences of jazz musicians such as John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman, this volume addresses music as a key metaphor for the...
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  • Words and Songs of Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, and Nina Simone: Sound Motion, Blues Spirit, and African Memory by Bratcher, Melanie E.
    Melanie E. Bratcher

    Words and Songs of Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, and Nina Simone: Sound Motion, Blues Spirit, and African Memory

    This book explores the relationship between three African American women's dance-art-music sensibilities within the context of a Pan African aesthetic. Its purpose is three-fold: to show commonalities between Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday and Nina Simone's lives and original compositions; to codify, examine and evaluate...
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  • Real Blues-Rock Guitar: Revised Edition of Real Rock Guitar with 2 Dvds, Book & Online Video/Audio [With 2 DVDs] by Chipkin, Kenn
    Kenn Chipkin

    Real Blues-Rock Guitar: Revised Edition of Real Rock Guitar with 2 Dvds, Book & Online Video/Audio [With 2 DVDs]

    The late 1960s saw the perfect fusion of blues and rock, giving birth to modern rock guitar and a generation of groundbreaking players. Real Blues-Rock Guitar focuses on these amazing guitar players and shows you their chord progressions, licks, styles, and techniques. This revised...
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  • The Blues: A Very Short Introduction by Wald, Elijah
    Elijah Wald

    The Blues: A Very Short Introduction

    Praised as "suave, soulful, ebullient" (Tom Waits) and "a meticulous researcher, a graceful writer, and a committed contrarian" (New York Times Book Review), Elijah Wald is one of the leading popular music critics of his generation. In The Blues, Wald surveys a genre at...
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  • Stomping the Blues by Murray, Albert
    Albert Murray

    Stomping the Blues

    In this classic work of American music writing, renowned critic Albert Murray argues beautifully and authoritatively that "the blues as such are synonymous with low spirits. Not only is its express purpose to make people feel good, which is to say in high spirits,...
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  • Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters by Denise, Lynnée
    Lynn馥 Denise

    Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters

    Finalist, 2024 Lesbian Memoir/Biography, Lambda Literary Award for Arts and Culture A queer, Black "biography in essays" about the performer who gave us "Hound Dog," "Ball and Chain," and other songs that changed the course of American music. Born in Alabama in 1926, raised...
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  • The Life, Aftermath, and Legacy of Elmo Lewis by Athridge, Thomas P.
    Thomas P. Athridge

    The Life, Aftermath, and Legacy of Elmo Lewis

    A 21st Century Reexamination of the Story and Contemporary Impact of Brian Jones-Brian's short life was filled with controversy, violence, misogyny, and betrayal from a wide variety of sources. Brian had a profound dark side to him that hurt him on many different levels:...
    $32.99
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  • You Got The Gig, Here's How To Keep It: A Working Musician's Model For Success by Thomas, Andrew
    Andrew Thomas

    You Got The Gig, Here's How To Keep It: A Working Musician's Model For Success

    The music business doesn't come with a manual, so Andrew Blaze Thomas wrote one With over 20 years of experience as a professional drummer, Blaze has established rules for working musicians that illustrates how to acquire and maintain consistent work. You Got The Gig,...
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  • New York City Blues: Postwar Portraits from Harlem to the Village and Beyond by Simon, Larry
    Larry Simon

    New York City Blues: Postwar Portraits from Harlem to the Village and Beyond

    A first-ever book on the subject, New York City Blues: Postwar Portraits from Harlem to the Village and Beyond offers a deep dive into the blues venues and performers in the city from the 1940s through the 1990s. Interviews in this volume bring the...
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    $110.00

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