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...

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...

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

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:...

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,...

"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....

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Liederbuch (in deutsch und english) mit 34 traditionelle Blues Songs - einfach notiert für die Okarina mit 10 bzw. 12 Löchern.Die Töne der Melodien wurden mit Griffbildern für die Okarina aufbereitet, die Rhythmik der Töne gibt der Liedtext und / oder die klassische Notenschrift...

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...

(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...

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...

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...

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

(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...

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...

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...

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...

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, drawing from the group's private archive The Blind Boys of Alabama are the...

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...

Conversations with Albert Murray edited by Roberta S. Maguire 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

QUOTES ABOUT JOHNNY WINTER: "All we needed was three, we had Johnny Winter!"...... Tommy Shannon "Johnny Winter goes down in history as one of the most vicious slide guitarists in history" ......Society of Rock. "Johnny Winter is a bona fide, genuine, Texas guitar legend....

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,...

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...

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...

The Penderyn 2020 Music Book Prize (UK edition) Living Blues Critics Choice Best Blues Book of 2019 Living Blues Readers Choice Best Blues Book of 2019 Certificate of Merit in the Best Historical Research in Recorded Blues, Soul, Gospel, or R&B category from ARSC...

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...

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...

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...

Liederbuch (in deutsch und english) mit 30 Bearbeitungen traditioneller Blues Songs für die Ukulele.Alle Lieder sind mit Tabulaturen für das Fingerpicking notiert, die Arrangements sind leicht bis mittelschwer gesetzt - für leicht fortgeschrittene und fortgeschrittene Fans der Ukulele.Die Aufnahmen der Stücke sind online in...

Author: Andreas StröhlISBN-10: 1737927489ISBN-13: 9781737927488Publisher: Elboro PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/22/2023Pages: 242Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.54lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.51d

(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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

From the very beginning, the blues has had a close connection with the LGBTQ community. There is a long and decorated history of so-called 'dirty blues' songs, stretching back beyond the earliest attempts to capture the blues on record. The 1920s and 30s saw...

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 in the church, appropriated by white performers, buried in an indigent's...

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:...