Music-Genres & Styles-Blues

James Baldwin used to tell Nina Simone, "This is the world you have made for yourself, now you have to live in it." Simone has created for herself a world of magnificent peaks. Often compared to Billie Holiday and Edith Piaf, Simone is known...

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,...

Experience music history with this memoir by one of the last of the genuine old school Blues and R&B legends, the Grammy-winning dynamic showman Bobby Rush. This memoir charts the extraordinary rise to fame of living blues legend, Bobby Rush. Born Emmett Ellis, Jr....

Follow British Blues musician and researcher, Derek Bright, as he travels along the famed Highway 61 route from Chicago to New Orleans. This thoroughly researched book delves deeply into African American culture, history and music both past and present associated with the highway. For...

I'm Just Dead, I'm Not Gone chronicles Jim Dickinson's extraordinary life in the Memphis music scene of the fifties and sixties and how he went on to play with and produce a rich array of artists, including Aretha Franklin, the Rolling Stones, Ry Cooder,...

Born into poverty in Mississippi at the close of the nineteenth century, Charley Patton and Jimmie Rodgers established themselves among the most influential musicians of their era. In Tune tells the story of the parallel careers of these two pioneering recording artists -- one...

The life of blues legend Robert Johnson becomes the centerpiece for this innovative look at what many consider to be America's deepest and most influential music genre. Pivotal are the questions surrounding why Johnson was ignored by the core black audience of his time...

How do you love and not like the same thing at the same time? This was the riddle that met Mississippi writer B. Brian Foster when he returned to his home state to learn about Black culture and found himself hearing about the blues....

(Guitar Method). The Hal Leonard Blues Guitar Method is your complete guide to learning blues guitar. This book uses real blues songs to teach you the basics of rhythm and lead blues guitar in the style of B.B. King, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Buddy Guy,...

Break down the challenging yet rewarding genre of blues guitar step-by-step, from your first finger independence exercises right through to complete studies that seamlessly combine chords, bass lines and melodies into full pieces of music.Author: Joseph AlexanderISBN-10: 178933053XISBN-13: 9781789330533Publisher: WWW.Fundamental-Changes.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/12/2015Pages: 106Format: PaperbackWeight:...

Blues history is steeped in Chicago's sidewalks; it floats out of its restaurants, airport lounges and department stores. It is a fundamental part of the city's heritage that every resident should know and every visitor should be afraid to miss. Allow Rosalind Cummings-Yeates to...

Although many bluesmen began leaving the Magnolia State in the early twentieth century to pursue fortune and fame up north, many others stayed home. These musicians remained rooted to the traditions of their land, which came to define a distinctive playing style unique to...

Tony Bolden presents an innovative history of funk music focused on the performers, regarding them as intellectuals who fashioned a new aesthetic. Utilizing musicology, literary studies, performance studies, and African American intellectual history, Bolden explores what it means for music, or any cultural artifact,...

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

How to Play Blues Guitar gives you vital instruction in blues basics from top guitar teachers and reveals the screts of blues greats, often in their own words. Revised and expanded with 32 pages of new lessons and packed with musical examples, charts, and...

Skip James (1902-1969) was perhaps the most creative and idiosyncratic of all blues musicians. Drawing on hundreds of hours of conversations with James himself, Stephen Calt here paints a dark and unforgettable portrait of a man untroubled by his own murderous inclinations, a man...

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, folklorist William Ferris toured his home state of Mississippi, documenting the voices of African Americans as they spoke about and performed the diverse musical traditions that form the authentic roots of the blues. Now, Give My Poor Heart Ease...

To many, asylums are a relic of a bygone era. State governments took steps between 1950 and 1990 to minimize the involuntary confinement of people in psychiatric hospitals, and many mental health facilities closed down. Yet, as Anne Parsons reveals, the asylum did not...

HOW TO PLAY BLUES GUITAR: THEBASICS & BEYOND LESSONS & TIPS FROM THE GREAT PLAYERSAuthor: Richard JohnstonISBN-10: 0879307064ISBN-13: 9780879307066Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2002Pages: 98Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.64lbsSize: 10.82h x 8.42w x 0.36d

(Guitar Method). The Hal Leonard Blues Guitar Method is your complete guide to learning blues guitar. This book uses excerpts from real blues songs no corny arrangments of nursery rhymes here! (well, except "Mary Had a Little Lamb," but this is NOT the version...

Tony Bolden presents an innovative history of funk music focused on the performers, regarding them as intellectuals who fashioned a new aesthetic. Utilizing musicology, literary studies, performance studies, and African American intellectual history, Bolden explores what it means for music, or any cultural artifact,...

How do you love and not like the same thing at the same time? This was the riddle that met Mississippi writer B. Brian Foster when he returned to his home state to learn about Black culture and found himself hearing about the blues....

Although many bluesmen began leaving the Magnolia State in the early twentieth century to pursue fortune and fame up north, many others stayed home.These musicians remained rooted to the traditions of their land, which came to define a distinctive playing style unique to Mississippi....

An analysis of the media's reaction to the lynching of a young black man Employing never-before-used historical materials, the au-thors of Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press reveal how Mississippi journalists both expressed and shaped public opinion in the aftermath of the 1955 Emmett...

Blues history is steeped in Chicago's sidewalks; it floats out of its restaurants, airport lounges and department stores. It is a fundamental part of the city's heritage that every resident should know and every visitor should be afraid to miss. Allow Rosalind Cummings-Yeates to...

Eric Slone teaches you all the essential lead and rhythm techniques to become a great blues guitarist. Learn about transposition, call-and-response, targeting chord tones, arpeggios, scales, fills between vocals, pinch harmonics, rakes, Texas power rhythm in the style of Stevie Ray Vaughan, chord progressions,...

ELWOOD'S BLUES INTERVIEWS WITH THE BLUES LEGENDS AND STARSAuthor: Dan Aykroyd, Ben ManillaISBN-10: 0879308095ISBN-13: 9780879308094Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2004Pages: 260Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 9.32h x 6.06w x 0.63d

Memphis, Tennessee, is a major crossroads for blues musicians, songs, and styles. Memphis is where the blues first "came to town" and established itself as a cosmopolitan performance genre, and the city has long been a center of synthesis and evolution in blues recording....

This book explores how, and why, the blues became a central component of English popular music in the 1960s. It is commonly known that many 'British invasion' rock bands were heavily influenced by Chicago and Delta blues styles. But how, exactly, did Britain get...

Deep Inside the Blues collects thirty-four of Margo Cooper's interviews with blues artists and is illustrated with over 160 of her photographs, many published here for the first time. For thirty years, Cooper has been documenting the lives of blues musicians, their families and...

Anyone interested in learning to play electric bass can pick up this book and get started right away. This well-paced, comprehensive method covers everything from basic to advanced techniques. Beginning concepts include the basics of the instrument, reading music, and building bass lines using...

The legendary Jim Santella takes you on a wild, decades-long radio roller coaster ride. From rock 'n' roll to R&B, from country to the blues, Santella played it all. Get behind the mic to meet the man, and head backstage with him to meet...

CHILDREN OF THE BLUES - 49 MUSICIANS SHAPING A NEW BLUES TRADITION - REFERENCEAuthor: Art TipaldiISBN-10: 0879307005ISBN-13: 9780879307004Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2002Pages: 338Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 9.16h x 6.03w x 0.81d

Examining the blues genre by region, and describing the differences unique to each, make this a must-have for music scholars and lay readers alike. A melding of many types of music such as ragtime, spiritual, jug band, and other influences came together in what...

Explores lyrical representations of romantic and sexual betrayal in the blues, revealing deceit and entrapment constraining the physical, socioeconomic, and political movement of African Americans. Argues that blues music calls for a reckoning while expressing faith in a secular and moral justice-to-come.Author: Julia SimonISBN-10:...

Winner of the 2016 Living Blues Award for Blues Book of the Year 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...

Dennis Walker has been "chasing the blues" for a lifetime, starting with his first producing credit in 1965. He is a three-time Grammy Award-winning Blues producer and songwriter for Robert Cray's Strong Persuader, The Robert Cray Band's Don't Be Afraid of The Dark, and...

Dennis Walker has been "chasing the blues" for a lifetime, starting with his first producing credit in 1965. He is a three-time Grammy Award-winning Blues producer and songwriter for Robert Cray's Strong Persuader, The Robert Cray Band's Don't Be Afraid of The Dark, and...

Deep Blues explores the archetypal journey of the human psyche through an examination of the blues as a musical genre. The genesis, history, and thematic patterns of the blues are examined from an archetypal perspective and various analytic theories. Mythological and shamanistic parallels are...

(Blues Play-Along). For use with all Bb, Eb, Bass Clef, and C instruments, the Hal Leonard Blues Play-Along Series is the ultimate jamming tool for all blues musicians. With authentic, easy-to-read lead sheets, and other split-track choices on the included CD, these first-of-a-kind packages...

(Guitar Educational). Une methode de reference pour apprendre la guitare blues, concue pour developper a la fois rythmique et jeu melodique. Styles de blues presentes: Texas, Delta, R&B, early rock 'n roll, Gospel et blues/rock. 21 solos complets.Author: John GanapesISBN-10: 1480345784ISBN-13: 9781480345782Publisher: Hal Leonard...

Author: Art SimasISBN-10: 1403331588ISBN-13: 9781403331588Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/23/2002Pages: 320Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.41lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d

A look at the contemporary blues scene of Greater Boston, including dozens of interviews with musicians, blues radio DJs and photographers; regional festival listings; radio stations, and a brief history of the blues in Boston.Author: Art SimasISBN-10: 0759652716ISBN-13: 9780759652712Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2001Pages:...

Celebrate Christmas with the King of Rock n' Roll For Elvis, Christmas at Graceland was a time for family and friends, a respite from the road and the recording studio. It was a time to sing gospel songs around the piano and give out...

Despite the influence of African American music and study as a worldwide phenomenon, no comprehensive and fully annotated reference tool currently exists that covers the wide range of genres. This much needed bibliography fills an important gap in this research area and will prove...

This starting volume of the Complete Acoustic Blues Method covers basic blues theory, left-hand techniques, call and response phrasing, intros, turnarounds, endings, and improvisation. All music is shown in standard notation and TAB, and the CD demonstrates the examples in the book. This is...

A fusion of history, culture, and song in a practical travel guide for music lovers who want to understand more of what helped shape what they are seeing, hearing, and experiencing as they tour the cradle of the blues in Mississippi and beyond. By...

A Rolling Stone-Kirkus Best Music Book of 2020 " Brother Robert} book does much to pull the blues master out of the fog of myth."--Rolling Stone An intimate memoir by blues legend Robert Johnson's stepsister, including new details about his family, music, influences, tragic...

"A biography that crackles with as much energy as the great bluesman's songs." --Ted Drozdowski, Boston Phoenix The epic, rollicking, up-and-down life of Muddy Waters--who went from Mississippi farmhand to musical legend, invented electric blues, and created the template for the rock-and- roll band...

The result of careful and meticulous research, this stylishly-written biography of infamous blues musician Robert Johnson reveals the real story behind the mythical talent that made him a musical legend. According to some, Robert Johnson learned guitar by trading his soul away to the...