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  • Blowin' Like Hell by Barry, Paul
    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...
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  • Conversations with Albert Murray by Maguire, Roberta S.
    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...
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  • Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock 'n' Roll by Birnbaum, Larry
    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...
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  • Shreveport Sounds in Black & White by Lornell, Kip
    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...
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  • The Inconvenient Lonnie Johnson: Blues, Race, Identity by Simon, Julia
    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...
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  • Acoustic Blues Guitar Styles [With CD] by Sandberg, Larry
    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...
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  • Bars, Blues, and Booze: Stories from the Drink House by Edwards, Emily D.
    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...
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  • King of the Delta Blues: The Life and Music of Charlie Patton by Wardlow, Gayle Dean
    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...
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  • Say No to the Devil: The Life and Musical Genius of Rev. Gary Davis by Zack, Ian
    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...
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  • The British Blues Network: Adoption, Emulation, and Creativity by Kellett, Andrew
    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...
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  • Talkin' to Myself: Blues Lyrics, 1921-1942 by Taft, Michael
    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...
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  • Play Ukulele - 30 traditional Blues Songs: Deutsch & English - Tabs & Online Sounds by Schipp, Bettina
    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...
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  • Song Atlas by Ströhl, Andreas
    Andreas Strl

    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...
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  • The Blues Book: Easy Guitar by Hal Leonard Corp
    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...
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  • Words and Songs of Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, and Nina Simone: Sound Motion, Blues Spirit, and African Memory by Bratcher, Melanie E.
    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...
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  • The Blues: A Very Short Introduction by Wald, Elijah
    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...
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  • Stomping the Blues by Murray, Albert
    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,...
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  • Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters by Denise, Lynnée
    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...
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  • The Life, Aftermath, and Legacy of Elmo Lewis by Athridge, Thomas P.
    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:...
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  • You Got The Gig, Here's How To Keep It: A Working Musician's Model For Success by Thomas, Andrew
    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,...
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  • New York City Blues: Postwar Portraits from Harlem to the Village and Beyond by Simon, Larry
    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...
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  • Mama Said, 'This Boy's Gonna Be Somebody!': The Untold Story of Oklahoma Blues Legend D.C. Minner by Hughes, Lanelda
    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...
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  • Motherless Child: The Definitive Biography of Eric Clapton by Scott, Paul
    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...
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  • Who Did It First?: Great Rock and Roll Cover Songs and Their Original Artists by Leszczak, Bob
    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...
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  • The Mélodies of Francis Poulenc: A Study Guide by Deeter, Alissa
    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...
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  • Yonder Come the Blues: The Evolution of a Genre by Oliver, Paul
    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...
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  • Seems Like Murder Here: Southern Violence and the Blues Tradition by Gussow, Adam
    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...
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  • The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records: A Great Migration Story, 1917-1932 by Blackwood, Scott
    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...
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  • Wild Years: The Music and Myth of Tom Waits by Jacobs, Jay S.
    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...
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  • Ramblin' on My Mind: New Perspectives on the Blues by Evans, David
    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'...
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  • Texas Blues: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound by Govenar, Alan B.
    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...
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  • Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound by Brooks, Daphne A.
    Daphne A. Brooks

    Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound

    Winner of the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award, Rock & Roll Hall of FameWinner of the American Book Award, Before Columbus FoundationWinner of the PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles AwardWinner of the MAAH Stone Book AwardA Pitchfork Best Music Book of the YearA Rolling Stone...
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  • Pioneers of the Blues Revival by Cushing, Steve
    Steve Cushing

    Pioneers of the Blues Revival

    Steve Cushing, the award-winning host of the nationally syndicated public radio staple Blues Before Sunrise, has spent more than thirty years observing and participating in the Chicago blues scene. In the expanded second edition of Pioneers of the Blues Revival, Cushing adds new interviewees...
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  • Long Lost Blues: Popular Blues in America, 1850-1920 by Muir, Peter C.
    Peter C. Muir

    Long Lost Blues: Popular Blues in America, 1850-1920

    Mamie Smith's 1920 recording of ""Crazy Blues"" is commonly thought to signify the beginning of commercial attention to blues music and culture, but by that year more than 450 other blues titles had already appeared in sheet music and on recordings. In this examination...
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  • Manchester Evening Blues by Beaker, Norman
    Norman Beaker

    Manchester Evening Blues

    In January 2017, Norman Beaker became only one of eight 21-st century British artists to be officially recognised and inducted as a Legend in the American Heritage Society's Blues Hall of Fame(R), alongside Jack Bruce, Peter Green, John Mayall, Jeff Beck, Keith Richards, Mick...
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  • Jimmy Reed [With CD (Audio)] by Reed, Jimmy
    Jimmy Reed

    Jimmy Reed [With CD (Audio)]

    (Blues Play-Along). For use with all B-flat, E-flat, Bass Clef, and C instruments, the Hal Leonard Blues Play-Along series is the ultimate jamming tool for all blues musicians. With easy-to-read lead sheets and other split-track choices on the included CD, these first-of-a-kind packages will...
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  • The Library of Ragtime and Early Blues Piano by Appleby, Amy
    Amy Appleby

    The Library of Ragtime and Early Blues Piano

    (Music Sales America). A spiral bound collection of the world's finest ragtime and blues piano classics. This expansive volume contains the best of Scott Joplin's piano rags, as well as his masterful collaborations with Scott Hayden, Louis Chauvin and Arthur Marshall, as well as...
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  • The Christopher Small Reader by Small, Christopher
    Christopher Small

    The Christopher Small Reader

    A rich representation of the transformative work of an influential scholar of music studiesThe Christopher Small Reader is the fourth and final book in Christopher Small's legacy as a composer, pianist, teacher, friend, provocateur, and influential outsider in classical music studies. It is at...
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  • Power Trio Blues Guitar - Updated & Expanded Edition: Blues Guitar Styles from the West Side of Chicago to Texas and Beyond [With Music] by Rubin, Dave
    Dave Rubin

    Power Trio Blues Guitar - Updated & Expanded Edition: Blues Guitar Styles from the West Side of Chicago to Texas and Beyond [With Music]

    (Guitar Educational). This book/CD pack details how to play electric guitar in a trio with bass and drums. Boogie, shuffle and slow blues rhythms, licks, double stops, chords and bass patterns are presented for full and exciting blues. A CD with the music examples...
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  • Literacy in a Long Blues Note: Black Women's Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries by Pittman, Coretta M.
    Coretta M. Pittman

    Literacy in a Long Blues Note: Black Women's Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

    Literacy in a Long Blues Note: Black Women's Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries traces the evolution of Black women's literacy practices from 1892 to 1934. A dynamic chronological study, the book explores how Black women public intellectuals, creative...
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  • Literacy in a Long Blues Note: Black Women's Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries by Pittman, Coretta M.
    Coretta M. Pittman

    Literacy in a Long Blues Note: Black Women's Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

    Literacy in a Long Blues Note: Black Women's Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries traces the evolution of Black women's literacy practices from 1892 to 1934. A dynamic chronological study, the book explores how Black women public intellectuals, creative...
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  • Memphis Man: Living High, Laying Low by Nix, Don
    Don Nix

    Memphis Man: Living High, Laying Low

    Memphis Man: Living High, Laying Low by Don Nix is a memoir of a Memphis music legend who played sax in an instrumental band, the Mar-Keys, that scored one of Stax Records first Top 10 hits, and then went on to become a prolific...
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  • Texas Blues Guitar: Private Lessons Series [With CD] by Calva, Robert
    Robert Calva

    Texas Blues Guitar Book/Online Audio [With CD]

    (Musicians Institute Press). Musicians Institute instructor Robert Calva covers rhythm and lead guitar in the styles of Stevie Ray Vaughan, Johnny Winter, T-Bone Walker, Freddie King and Albert Collins. He teaches: 24 common blues licks; common blues "box" positions; shuffle blues, slow blues, Latin...
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  • What Was The First Rock 'N' Roll Record by Dawson, Jim
    Jim Dawson

    What Was The First Rock 'N' Roll Record

    "The blues had a baby and they called it rock 'n' roll," said the great Muddy Waters.But what was the firstborn? What was the first rock 'n' roll record?Using this question as their starting point, writers Jim Dawson and Steve Propes nominate 50 recordings...
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  • What Was The First Rock 'N' Roll Record by Dawson, Jim
    Jim Dawson

    What Was The First Rock 'N' Roll Record

    "The blues had a baby and they called it rock 'n' roll," said the great Muddy Waters.But what was the firstborn? What was the first rock 'n' roll record?Using this question as their starting point, writers Jim Dawson and Steve Propes nominate 50 recordings...
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  • Modern Blues Guitar Soloing: Master The Art of Modern Blues-Rock Guitar in 100 Killer Licks by Smith, Josh
    Josh Smith

    Modern Blues Guitar Soloing: Master The Art of Modern Blues-Rock Guitar in 100 Killer Licks

    Revolutionize Your Blues Guitar Playing with Josh Smith "Josh Smith is one of my favorite musicians on the planet. His musical depth and guitar playing transcend the boundaries of the blues genre into a genre of his own." Joe BonamassaJosh Smith has taken the...
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  • Willie Dixon: Preacher of the Blues by Inaba, Mitsutoshi
    Mitsutoshi Inaba

    Willie Dixon: Preacher of the Blues

    One of the greats of blues music, Willie Dixon was a recording artist whose abilities extended beyond that of bass player. A singer, songwriter, arranger, and producer, Dixon's work influenced countless artists across the music spectrum. In Willie Dixon: Preacher of the Blues, Mitsutoshi...
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  • The Rolling Stones: Sociological Perspectives by Staubmann, Helmut
    Helmut Staubmann

    The Rolling Stones: Sociological Perspectives

    The Rolling Stones: Sociological Perspectives, edited by Helmut Staubmann, draws from a broad spectrum of sociological perspectives to contribute both to the understanding of the phenomenon Rolling Stones and to an in-depth analysis of contemporary society and culture that takes The Stones a starting...
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  • King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B.B. King by de Vise, Daniel
    Daniel de Vise

    King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B.B. King

    The first full and authoritative biography of an American--indeed a world-wide--musical and cultural legend. "No one worked harder than B.B. No one inspired more up-and-coming artists. No one did more to spread the gospel of the blues."--President Barack Obama "He is without a doubt...
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  • Up Jumped the Devil: The Real Life of Robert Johnson by Conforth, Bruce
    Bruce Conforth

    Up Jumped the Devil: The Real Life of Robert Johnson

    Robert Johnson is the subject of the most famous myth about the blues: he allegedly sold his soul at the crossroads in exchange for his incredible talent, and this deal led to his death at age 27. But the actual story of his life...
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