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Author:Ted Gioia
The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire
An updated new edition of Ted Gioia's acclaimed compendium of jazz standards, featuring 15 additional selections, hundreds of additional recommended tracks, and enhancements and additions on almost every page. Since the first edition of The Jazz Standards was published in 2012, author Ted Gioia...- $39.95
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Author:Peter Guralnick
Looking to Get Lost: Adventures in Music and Writing
By the bestselling author of Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll and Last Train the Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley, this dazzling new book of profiles is a culmination of Peter Guralnick's remarkable work, which from the start has encompassed...- $18.99
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Author:Billy Boy Arnold
The Blues Dream of Billy Boy Arnold
The frank, funny, and unforgettable autobiography of a living legend of Chicago blues. Simply put, Billy Boy Arnold is one of the last men standing from the Chicago blues scene's raucous heyday. What's more, unlike most artists in this electrifying melting pot, who were...- $30.00
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Author:Bobby Joe Holman
Teach Yourself to Play Blues Harmonica: Book & Online Audio [With CD]
This is a great method for any harmonica player to learn blues harmonica basics. An excellent means for expanding performance capabilities and styles, this book and audio set teaches cross harp (second position), note bending, 12-bar shuffle blues with bends, 12-bar slow blues with...- $15.99
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Author:Joseph Alexander
The Complete Guide to Playing Blues Guitar - Compilation
The Complete Guide to Playing Blues Guitar is a three-part series that teaches you the essential skills required to become a master blues guitarist. You save 15% when you purchase all three best-selling books in this one editionAuthor: Joseph AlexanderISBN-10: 1789330386ISBN-13: 9781789330380Publisher: WWW.Fundamental-Changes.comLanguage: EnglishPublished:...- $49.99
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Author:Alan Lomax
The Land Where the Blues Began
Winner of a National Book Critics Circle award, a rollicking and unforgettable memoir by the man who helped bring the music of the blues into the mainstream"Without Lomax it's possible that there would have been no blues explosion, no R&B movement, no Beatles and...- $35.99
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Author:Mike Evans
The Blues: A Visual History: 100 Years of Music That Changed the World
Charting the history of the blues from its rural roots in the American South, and focusing on the key musicians and singers who brought it recognition worldwide, The Blues: A Visual History is a unique and fully illustrated account of the development of the...- $39.99
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Author:Roger Stolle
Mississippi Juke Joint Confidential: House Parties, Hustlers and the Blues Life
Juke joint--two words often used, often abused. They convey an inherent promise of something real, edgy, from another time. All juke joints are blues clubs, but not all blues clubs are jukes. Here, artist recollections and insights delve below the murky surface to tell...- $34.99
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Author:Joseph Alexander
The Caged System and 100 Licks for Blues Guitar
Whether you want a complete method to learn blues guitar or just a set of 100 excellent blues guitar licks, this book has you covered. Most guitarists stay locked into the same patterns and scale shapes for years, unable to break out of the...- $19.99
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Author:Charles Wolfe
The Life and Legend of Leadbelly
Huddie Ledbetter (1889-1949), known to millions of fans simply as Leadbelly, was arguably the most famous black singer in American history. His close musical associations included such towering figures as Blind Lemon Jefferson, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and John and Alan Lomax. He helped...- $18.99
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Author:Detlef Schmidt
Keith Ferguson - Texas Blues Bass
(Reference). Ask any blues bass player to name their most influential blues bass player, and almost all will mention Willy Dixon for upright bass and Keith Ferguson from the Fabulous Thunderbirds for electric bass. In this extensively researched biography, author Detlef Schmidt starts with...- $34.99
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Author:Brent C. Robitaille
The Complete 3-String Cigar Box Guitar Book
The Ultimate Chord Reference Book for 3-String Cigar Box Guitar Players. The Complete Cigar Box Guitar Chord Book is the most extensive library of chords ever assembled for the 3-string cigar box guitar. It's amazing that over 2000 chords are possible with only 3...- $19.99
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Author:Alan Govenar
Lightnin' Hopkins: His Life and Blues
2011 ARSC Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research for Best History By the time of his death in 1982, Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins was likely the most recorded blues artist in history. This brilliant biography illuminates the many contradictions of the man and...- $18.99
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Author:Francis Davis
The History of the Blues: The Roots, the Music, the People
Francis Davis's The History of the Blues is a groundbreaking rethinking of the blues that fearlessly examines how race relations have altered perceptions of the music. Tracing its origins from the Mississippi Delta to its amplification in Chicago right after World War II, Davis...- $24.99
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Author:Hal Leonard Corp
Jazz & Blues: Play-Along Solos for Alto Sax [With]
(Instrumental Play-Along). 14 songs for solo saxophone, complete with access to online play-along accompaniment tracks. Includes: Bernie's Tune * Cry Me a River * Fever * Fly Me to the Moon * God Bless' the Child * Harlem Nocturne * Moonglow * A Night...- $14.99
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Author:Hal Leonard Corp
Jazz & Blues: Play-Along Solos for Trumpet [With]
(Instrumental Play-Along). 14 songs for solo instruments, complete with play-along audio accompaniments. Includes: Bernie's Tune * Cry Me a River * Fever * Fly Me to the Moon * God Bless' the Child * Harlem Nocturne * Moonglow * A Night in Tunisia *...- $14.99
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Author:Peter Guralnick
Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom
A gripping narrative that captures the tumult and liberating energy of a nation in transition, Sweet Soul Music is an intimate portrait of the legendary performers--Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, James Brown, Solomon Burke, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, and Al Green among them--who merged gospel...- $19.00
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Author:Giles Oakley
The Devil's Music: A History of the Blues
Superbly researched and vividly written, The Devil's Music is one of the only books to trace the rise and development of the blues both in relation to other forms of black music and in the context of American social history as experienced by African...- $16.95
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Author:Peter Guralnick
Lost Highway: Journeys and Arrivals of American Musicians
This masterful explorationof American roots music--country, rockabilly, and the blues--spotlights the artists who created a distinctly American sound, including Ernest Tubb, Bobby Blue Bland, Elvis Presley, Merle Haggard, and Sleepy LaBeef. In incisive portraits based on searching interviews with these legendary performers, Peter Guralnick...- $18.99
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Author:Brent C. Robitaille
The Complete 4-String Cigar Box Guitar Chord Book: 4-String Cigar Box Guitar Chords in GDGB Tuning
The Ultimate Chord Reference Book for 3-String Cigar Box Guitar Players. The Complete Cigar Box Guitar Chord Book is the most extensive library of chords everassembled for the 4-string cigar box guitar. Incredibly, there are thousands of possible chords withonly four strings in GDGB...- $19.99
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Author:Michael McClure
Mule Kick Blues: And Last Poems
The final book of poems from a Beat Generation legend, Mule Kick Blues finds McClure restlessly innovating until the end."Intelligent, affable and flecked with unconventional typography--as in previous books ... Mule Kick Blues is an estimable coda to a storied career."--San Francisco Chronicle"What a...- $17.95
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Author:Adam Gussow
Mister Satan's Apprentice: A Blues Memoir
Mister Satan's Apprentice is the history of one of music's most fascinating collaborations, between Adam Gussow, a young graduate school dropout and harmonica player, and Sterling "Mr. Satan" Magee, a guitarist and underground blues legend who had originally made his name as "Five Fingers...- $18.95
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Author:Hal Leonard Corp
Jazz & Blues: Instrumental Play-Along for Flute [With]
(Instrumental Play-Along). 14 songs for solo instruments, complete with play-along recordings. Includes: Bernie's Tune * Cry Me a River * Fever * Fly Me to the Moon * God Bless' the Child * Harlem Nocturne * Moonglow * A Night in Tunisia * One...- $14.99
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Author: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...- $28.00
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Author:Roger Stolle
Mississippi Juke Joint Confidential: House Parties, Hustlers and the Blues Life
What's the real meaning of juke joint? Explore these special places for a special brand of the blues.Juke joint - two words often used, often abused. They convey an inherent promise of something real, edgy, from another time. All juke joints are blues clubs,...- $21.99
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Author:Rob Bowman
Soulsville U.S.A.: The Story of Stax Records
Walk the halls of the famous studio that produced hits for Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes, Sam and Dave, and Booker T. and the MGs. Soulsville, U.S.A. provides the first history of the groundbreaking label along with compelling biographies of the promoters, producers, and performers...- $29.95
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Author:Robert Gordon
Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion
The story of Stax Records unfolds like a Greek tragedy. A white brother and sister build a monument to racial harmony in blighted south Memphis during the civil rights movement. Their success soon pits the siblings against each other, and the brother abandons his...- $20.00
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Author:Lynn Abbott
Original Blues: The Emergence of the Blues in African American Vaudeville
Blues Book of the Year --Living BluesAssociation of Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence Best Historical Research in Recorded Blues, Gospel, Soul, or R&B-Certificate of Merit (2018)With this volume, Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff complete their groundbreaking trilogy on the development of African American...- $40.00
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Author:Mississippi John Hurt
Stefan Grossman's Early Masters of American Blues Guitar: Mississippi John Hurt, Book & Online Audio [With CD]
The Early Masters of American Blues series provides the unique opportunity to study the true roots of modern blues. Stefan Grossman, noted roots-blues guitarist and musicologist, has compiled this fascinating collection of 26 songs legendary blues guitarist Mississippi John Hurt. In addition to Stefan's...- $24.99
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Author:Eric Comp Sackheim
The Blues Line: Blues Lyrics from Leadbelly to Muddy Waters
Transcribed from 78 rpm recordings and preserved here long after many of the records have disappeared, this collection of nearly three hundred songs from more than one hundred singers celebrates the diversity of feeling and form that defines the blues. Ma Rainey, Blind Lemon...- $21.99
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Author:Philip R. Ratcliffe
Mississippi John Hurt: His Life, His Times, His Blues
Winner, Best History, 2012 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research When Mississippi John Hurt (1892-1966) was "rediscovered" by blues revivalists in 1963, his musicianship and recordings transformed popular notions of prewar country blues. At seventy-one he moved...- $30.00
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Author:Adam Gussow
Whose Blues?: Facing Up to Race and the Future of the Music
Mamie Smith's pathbreaking 1920 recording of "Crazy Blues" set the pop music world on fire, inaugurating a new African American market for "race records." Not long after, such records also brought black blues performance to an expanding international audience. A century later, the mainstream...- $39.95
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Author:T-Bone Walker
The T-Bone Walker Collection
(Guitar Recorded Versions). This terrific collection features 20 tunes from wildly influential (B.B. King, Chuck Berry, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Jimi Hendrix, to name but a few) blues legend T-Bone Walker, to whom electric blues and rock music owe their existence. Songs include: Call...- $22.99
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Author:J. M. DuPont
Love in Vain: Robert Johnson 1911-1938, the Graphic Novel
From 'Crossroads Blues' to 'Sweet Home Chicago', 'Hellhound on My Trail' to 'Come On In My Kitchen', Robert Johnson wrote some of the most enduring and formative songs of the original blues era, songs that would go on to help shape the birth of...- $29.95
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Author:Buddy Guy
When I Left Home: My Story
According to Eric Clapton, John Mayer, and the late Stevie Ray Vaughn, Buddy Guy is the greatest blues guitarist of all time. An enormous influence on these musicians as well as Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, and Jeff Beck, he is the living embodiment of...- $15.99
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Author:Debra Devi
The Language of the Blues: From Alcorub to Zuzu
Find out what the words in your favorite blues songs really mean In The Language of the Blues: From Alcorub to Zuzu (Foreword by Dr. John), rock musician Debra Devi defines 170 blues terms like mojo, hoodoo, buffet flat and killing floor with wild...- $24.99
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Author:Peter Guralnick
Looking to Get Lost: Adventures in Music and Writing
By the bestselling author of Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll and Last Train the Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley, this dazzling new book of profiles is a culmination of Peter Guralnick's remarkable work, which from the start has encompassed...- $30.00
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Author:Robben Ford
Robben Ford's Urban Blues Guitar Revolution: A Modern Approach to Playing Blues Rhythm Guitar & Dynamic Soloing
Master Modern Blues Guitar Rhythm and Soloing - With Robben Ford Robben Ford is one of the world's most in demand modern blues guitarists. From his work with Miles Davis, to the Yellowjackets, Joni Mitchell, George Harrison and Larry Carlton, the Blues has always...- $19.99
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Author:Phil Wiggins
Sweet Bitter Blues: Washington, DC's Homemade Blues
Sweet Bitter Blues: Washington, DC's Homemade Blues depicts the life and times of harmonica player Phil Wiggins and the unique, vibrant music scene around him, as described by music journalist Frank Matheis. Featuring Wiggins's story, but including information on many musicians, the volume presents...- $25.00
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Author:Paul Butterfield
Paul Butterfield - Blues Harmonica Master Class: Book/Online Audio [With CD]
(Guitar). Paul Butterfield Teaches Blues Harmonica is part of the Listen and Learn series from Homespun. Paul explains some of his playing techniques that made him famous such as note-bending, tongue-blocking, and tremolo. Includes online access to audio for download or streaming, using the...- $19.99
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Author:Stanley Booth
Red Hot and Blue: Fifty Years of Writing about Music, Memphis, and Motherf**kers
This collection of over 50 years of writing about the South and its music by Stanley Booth, one of the undisputedly great chroniclers of the subject, is a classic, essential read. Booth's close contacts with many of the musicians he writes about provide a...- $19.99
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Author:George Mitchell
Mississippi Hill Country Blues 1967
These photographs document George Mitchell's trip to Mississippi, where he searched for thenunrecorded blues musicians including R. L. Burnside, Jessie Mae Hemphill, and Othar Turner. Thisjourney yielded recordings of music now on cherished and touted albums and CDs. From Mitchell'sfieldwork many others discovered the...- $40.00
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Author:Hal Leonard Corp
The Blues Fake Book
(Fake Book). The most comprehensive single-volume blues publication ever, with songs spanning the entire history of the genre. Every major blues artist is well-represented, including Howlin' Wolf, Robert Johnson, B.B. King, Billie Holiday, Leadbelly, Alberta Hunter, Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric...- $39.99
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Author:Hal Leonard Corp
Jazz & Blues: Play-Along Solos for Tenor Sax [With CD (Audio)]
(Instrumental Play-Along). 14 songs for solo instruments, complete with play-along accompaniment tracks. Includes: Bernie's Tune * Cry Me a River * Fever * Fly Me to the Moon * God Bless' the Child * Harlem Nocturne * Moonglow * A Night in Tunisia *...- $14.99
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Author:Adam Gussow
Whose Blues?: Facing Up to Race and the Future of the Music
Mamie Smith's pathbreaking 1920 recording of "Crazy Blues" set the pop music world on fire, inaugurating a new African American market for "race records." Not long after, such records also brought black blues performance to an expanding international audience. A century later, the mainstream...- $99.00
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Author:Toby Wine
Johnny Winter Plays the Blues [With CD (Audio)]
(Guitar Educational). This book/CD package is an insider's guide to the guitar style of Johnny Winter. You'll learn blues licks, riffs, turnarounds, and solos from the master himself, plus slide technique, alternate tunings, and much more. The CD features performances by Johnny Winter on...- $19.99
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Author:Rich Delgrosso
Mandolin Blues: From Memphis to Maxwell Street
(Mandolin). Travel back in time as acclaimed mandolinist Rich DelGrosso, author of the best-selling Hal Leonard Mandolin Method (00695102), traces the history and music of America's rich blues tradition through the eyes of the mandolinist. Follow the lives of players like Yank Rachell, Howard...- $22.99
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Author:Samuel Charters
The Poetry of the Blues
A signal event in the history of the music. -- Ted Gioia, author of The Delta BluesMusicologist and writer Samuel Charters (1929-2015) considered blues lyrics a profound cultural expression that could connect all people who love poetry. A pioneer in the exploration of world...- $9.95
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Author:Joseph Alexander
The Complete Guide to Playing Blues Guitar Book One - Rhythm Guitar
Every aspect of playing great blues guitar is covered, building from first principles such as blues rhythm, riffs, structure and fills, to more advanced techniques such as approach chords, shell chords and 'drop two' chord voicings.Author: Joseph AlexanderISBN-10: 1911267868ISBN-13: 9781911267867Publisher: WWW.Fundamental-Changes.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/04/2014Pages: 102Format:...- $19.99
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Author:Will Romano
Incurable Blues: The Troubles & Triumph of Blues Legend Hubert Sumlin
Incurable Blues explores the life and genius of Hubert Sumlin, a highly influential guitarist who has survived cancer, alcoholism, and personal and professional tribulations to testify to the classic days of Chicago blues. Sumlin's incendiary guitar playing is heard on most of Howlin' Wolf's...- $19.99
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