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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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...- $29.95
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Vendor: 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...- $54.95
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Vendor: 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...- $16.78
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Vendor: Andreas Strl
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...- $13.99
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Vendor: 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...- $16.95
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Vendor: 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...- $31.00
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Vendor: 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...- $59.95
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Vendor: 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...- $22.99
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Vendor: 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...- $12.99
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Vendor: 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,...- $17.95
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Vendor: 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...- $24.95
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Vendor: 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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Vendor: 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,...- $19.99
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Vendor: 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...- $110.00
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Vendor: Lanelda Hughes
Mama Said, 'This Boy's Gonna Be Somebody!': The Untold Story of Oklahoma Blues Legend D.C. Minner
Written by a close friend using recorded interviews with Minner, the assistance of Selby Minner, bandmate and wife, with family, band, and festival photos, this biography of D.C. Minner offers a candid look inside the man and gives a whirlwind tour of his life...- $18.00
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Vendor: Paul Scott
Motherless Child: The Definitive Biography of Eric Clapton
From the Yardbirds to Cream, Blind Faith to Derek and the Dominos, and a hugely-successful solo career, Eric Clapton's fifty years in the music business can look like an uninterrupted rise to become one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived. But his...- $14.99
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Vendor: Bob Leszczak
Who Did It First?: Great Rock and Roll 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...- $52.00
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Vendor: Alissa Deeter
The M駘odies of Francis Poulenc: A Study Guide
An acknowledged master of m駘odie, Francis Poulenc's prolific song oeuvre exceeds the collections of all other French composers who wrote in this genre. Yet despite Poulenc's prolific output and its significance to art song repertoire, few volumes dedicated to study of Poulenc's works have...- $118.00
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Vendor: Paul Oliver
Yonder Come the Blues: The Evolution of a Genre
This book combines three influential and much-quoted books Savannah Syncopators; Blacks, Whites and Blues and Recording the Blues, updated with additional new essays, which collectively confront the problem of how, when and from where the blues emerged and developed. It emphasizes the significance of...- $110.00
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Vendor: Adam Gussow
Seems Like Murder Here: Southern Violence and the Blues Tradition
Winner of the 2004 C. Hugh Holman Award from the Society for the Study of Southern Literature. Seems Like Murder Here offers a revealing new account of the blues tradition. Far from mere laments about lost loves and hard times, the blues emerge in...- $40.00
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Vendor: Debbie Cavalier
Ultimate Beginner Blues Keyboard Basics: Steps One & Two, Book & CD [With CD]
Take the first step towards experiencing the fun of playing blues keyboards. This book & CD will guide you through everything you need to know to begin playing blues keyboards. Lessons include the 12-bar progression, shuffle patterns, triplet feels, inversions, turnarounds, blues endings, the...- $12.95
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Vendor: Scott Bihlman
The Total Blues Drummer: A Fun and Comprehensive Overview of Blues Drumming, Book & CD [With CD (Audio)]
The Total Blues Drummer is an exciting journey through the diverse world of blues drumming. It covers many of the styles that make blues drumming so rewarding---from the blues sounds of Chicago, Memphis, and Texas to funky blues, jazz blues, and blues-rock. You'll learn...- $20.99
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Vendor: Scott Blackwood
The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records: A Great Migration Story, 1917-1932
Founded in 1917, Paramount Records incongruously was one of several homegrown record labels of a Wisconsin chair-making company. The company pinned no outsized hopes on Paramount. Its founders knew nothing of the music business, and they had arrived at the scheme of producing records...- $34.95
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Vendor: Jay S. Jacobs
Wild Years: The Music and Myth of Tom Waits
Legend. Bum. Genius. Con Man. Devoted husband and father. Myth. Storyteller. Inspiration. Drunk. Visionary. Tom Waits is all of these things.Waits is the lifeline between the great Beat poets and today's rock & roll heroes. He's old enough to be your dad and cool...- $21.95
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Vendor: David Evans
Ramblin' on My Mind: New Perspectives on the Blues
This compilation of essays takes the study of the blues to a welcome new level. Distinguished scholars and well-established writers from such diverse backgrounds as musicology, anthropology, musicianship, and folklore join together to examine blues as literature, music, personal expression, and cultural product. Ramblin'...- $30.00
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Vendor: Alan B. Govenar
Texas Blues: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound
Texas Blues allows artists to speak in their own words, revealing the dynamics of blues, from its beginnings in cotton fields and shotgun shacks to its migration across boundaries of age and race to seize the musical imagination of the entire world. Fully illustrated...- $40.00
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