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Author:Jack Long
All the Blues Chords You'll Ever Need!
(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...- $7.99
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Author:Pete Prown
The Ultimate Book of Blues Guitar Legends: The Players and Guitars That Shaped the Music
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...- $40.00
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Author:Bettina Schipp
Songbook Chromatic Harmonica - traditional Blues Songs: + Sounds Online
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...- $16.71
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Author:Woody Mann
The Art of Acoustic Blues Guitar: The Basics: Building a Foundation of Repertoire and Technique for Acoustic Fingerstyle Blues
(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...- $24.99
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Author:Bob Leszczak
Who Did It First?: Great Rhythm and Blues Cover Songs and Their Original Artists
"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...- $56.00
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Author:Darryl W. Bullock
Queer Blues: The Hidden Figures of Early Blues Music
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....- $28.99
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Author:Marc W. Ryan
Trumpet Records: Diamonds on Farish Street
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:...- $35.00
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Author:Paige A. McGinley
Staging the Blues: From Tent Shows to Tourism
Singing was just one element of blues performance in the early twentieth century. Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and other classic blues singers also tapped, joked, and flaunted extravagant costumes on tent show and black vaudeville stages. The press even described these women as "actresses"...- $28.95
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Author:Matt Rogers
Goodnight Boogie: A Tale of Guns, Wolves & the Blues of Hound Dog Taylor
Hound Dog Taylor made guitars howl and hips shake. A founding father of lo-fi blues rock--that gritty, stripped-down sound played on cheap guitars with no bass--Taylor and his band The Houserockers played loud, wild gut-bucket boogie that was raw and ferocious, earning them a...- $19.99
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Author:S. J. Tyler
The Complete Blues Piano
The complete blues piano is a comprehensive guide to playing and improvising blues piano. It covers the fundamental principles of the blues and includes in-depth theory and techniques, along with example blues pieces to learn/study. Ranging from fast boogie-type blues to slow blues, Chicago...- $19.99
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Author:Michael Urban
Russia Gets the Blues
Michael Urban chronicles the advent of blues music in Russia and explores the significance of the genre in the turbulent, postcommunist society. Russians, he explains, have taken a music originating in the "low" culture of the American South and transformed it into an object...- $130.00
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Author:Dick Weissman
Blues: The Basics
Blues: The Basics offers a concise introduction to a century of the blues. Organized chronologically, it focuses on the major eras in the growth and development of this popular musical style. Material includes: a definition of the blues and the major genres within it...- $26.95
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Author:Winslow Yerxa
Blues Harmonica for Dummies
Breathe the blues into your harmonica! Blues harmonica is the most popular and influential style of harmonica playing, and it forms the basis for playing harmonica in other styles such as rock and country. Blues Harmonica for Dummies gives you a wealth of content...- $29.99
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Author: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...- $29.50
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Author: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...- $59.50
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Author: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...- $21.95
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Author: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- $11.99
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Author: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:...- $18.98
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Author: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,...- $19.99
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Author: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....- $24.95
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Author: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- $47.50
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Author: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...- $14.99
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Author: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...- $58.00
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Author: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...- $19.97
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Author: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...- $99.00
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Author: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...- $30.99
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Author: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...- $14.95
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Author: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 Lhern.Die Te der Melodien wurden mit Griffbildern f? die Okarina aufbereitet, die Rhythmik der Te gibt der Liedtext und / oder die klassische Notenschrift...- $16.63
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Author: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...- $25.00
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Author: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...- $19.99
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Author: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...- $22.00
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Author: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...- $17.99
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Author: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- $22.25
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Author: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...- $24.99
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Author: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...- $21.99
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Author: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...- $17.99
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Author: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...- $26.95
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Author: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...- $30.00
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Author: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...- $19.99
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Author: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...- $30.00
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Author: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...- $135.00
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Author: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...- $35.00
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Author: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...- $32.95
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Author: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...- $49.95
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Author: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...- $35.00
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Author:Ray Harwood
Johnny Winter: Blues Man Walkin'
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....- $5.38
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Author: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,...- $29.99
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Author: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...- $13.99
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Author: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...- $34.95
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Author: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...- $32.00
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