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Author:Levi Clay
Slide Guitar Soloing Collection
3 Definitive Slide Blues Guitar Books in one Great Compilation The Slide Guitar Soloing Collection brings together three bestselling books to help you master slide guitar - from the authentic roots of the Delta Blues to the styles and techniques of the modern slide...- $49.99
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Author:Elisa Macedo Dekaney
Music at the Intersection of Brazilian Culture: An Introduction to Music, Race, and Food
Music at the Intersection of Brazilian Culture takes an interdisciplinary approach by utilizing several aspects of Brazilian music, race, and food as a window to understanding Brazilian culture, with music at the core. Through a holistic understanding of the Brazilian experience - exploring issues...- $46.95
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Author:Kate Fitzpatrick-Harnish
Urban Music Education: A Practical Guide for Teachers
The prevailing discourse surrounding urban music education suggests the deficit-laden notion that urban school settings are "less than," rather than "different than," their counterparts. Through the lens of contextually-specific teaching, this book provides a counternarrative on urban music education that encourages urban music teachers...- $34.99
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Author:Zoro
The Commandments of Early Rhythm and Blues Drumming: A Guided Tour Through the Musical Era That Birthed Rock 'n' Roll, Soul, Funk, and Hip-Hop, Book &
Eight years in the making, this prequel" to The Commandments of R&B Drumming delves into the rhythm and blues of the 1940s and 1950s, an incredible musical era when shuffles ruled the airwaves and modern groove playing was in its infancy. Written by Zoro...- $24.99
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Author:Stefan Grossman
Stefan Grossman's Early Masters of American Blues Guitar: The Anthology of Country Blues Guitar, 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 14 songs, transcribed exactly as performed by legendary blues masters Rev. Gary...- $20.99
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Author:Gary Moore
Jam with Gary Moore [With CD (Audio)]
These guitar workshops are powerful learning tools that will help extend your stockpile of licks and fills and help develop your improvisational skills. Features play-along songs in standard notation and tab, and on the CD with and without guitar parts. Titles are: Cold Day...- $27.99
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Author:Jas Obrecht
Rollin' and Tumblin': The Postwar Blues Guitarists
ROLLIN' AND TUMBLIN' - THE POSTWAR BLUES GUITARISTSAuthor: Jas ObrechtISBN-10: 0879306130ISBN-13: 9780879306137Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2000Pages: 466Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.43lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.94dReview Citation(s): Booklist 12/15/1999 pg. 768Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2000 pg. 143- $21.99
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Author:Alan Greenberg
Love in Vain: A Vision of Robert Johnson
Robert Johnson was undoubtedly the most outstanding of the Mississippi Delta blues musicians and also one of the first inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but his short life remains steeped in mystery and wrapped in some of the most enduring...- $17.95
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Author:Helen Oakley Dance
Stormy Monday: The T-Bone Walker Story
The most significant factor in the career of Aaron "T-Bone" Walker was his ability to bridge the worlds of blues and jazz. The guitar artistry of this early exponent of urban blues was not only admired by blues musicians like B.B. King, Gatemouth Brown,...- $23.95
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Author:Kevin G. Pace
Piano Blues: Playing Minor Blues Scales & Songs on the Piano for Moderate Level Pianists
Piano Blues: Playing Minor Blues Scales & Songs on the Piano for Moderate Level Pianists is a book to teach how to play the blues on the piano. The blues scales are shown in all 12 keys, each in the following ways: Right hand...- $14.10
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Author:Joseph Alexander
The Complete Guide to Playing Blues Guitar: Book Three - Beyond Pentatonics
Ever wondered how the great blues guitar players find those 'secret' notes? Sometime it seems like our favourite blues guitar players simply have more notes to choose from.. those notes that just make you go 'ahhhh' The truth is that they are often simply...- $19.99
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Author:Zeke Schein
Portrait of a Phantom: The Story of Robert Johnson's Lost Photograph
While searching for vintage guitars on the internet, Zeke Schein came across what he believed was a photograph of one of the most influential blues musicians of all time. Schein, both a fan and historian of the Delta Blues, suspected that the image depicted...- $19.99
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Author:John Reynolds
Lead Belly: A Life in Pictures
Photos, memorabilia and more from the life of Lead Belly, of "Goodnight, Irene" and "Midnight Special" fameThis is a new edition of Lead Belly: A Life in Pictures, the rich visual biography of legendary Louisiana blues musician Lead Belly, originally published by Steidl in...- $45.00
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Author:David Robertson
W. C. Handy: The Life and Times of the Man Who Made the Blues
David Robertson charts W. C. Handy's rise from a rural-Alabama childhood in the last decades of the nineteenth century to his emergence as one of the most celebrated songwriters of the twentieth century. The child of former slaves, Handy was first inspired by spirituals...- $24.95
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Author:R. a. Lawson
Jim Crow's Counterculture: The Blues and Black Southerners, 1890-1945
In the late nineteenth century, black musicians in the lower Mississippi Valley, chafing under the social, legal, and economic restrictions of Jim Crow, responded with a new musical form--the blues. In Jim Crow's Counterculture, R. A. Lawson offers a cultural history of blues musicians...- $24.95
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Author:Laura Ann Hoffman
The Blues Cookbook
The Blues Cookbook is a comprehensive piano method book for pianists of all ages who want to learn timeless secrets of how to play the Blues like the pros! The book is 134 pages and contains: preliminary exercises,"intros" and "endings", licks and patterns, a...- $22.95
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Author:Timothy J. O'Brien
Mojo Hand: The Life and Music of Lightnin' Hopkins
In a career that took him from the cotton fields of East Texas to the concert stage at Carnegie Hall and beyond, Lightnin' Hopkins became one of America's greatest bluesmen, renowned for songs whose topics effortlessly ranged from his African American roots to space...- $28.95
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Author:Peter Daniels
The Legend of Booker's Guitar
"That instrument he plays - when you hear it recorded correctly or live in a room, it has a tremendous comforting resonance and a hypnotic feeling. There are all sorts of tones coming from (the guitar) and it makes me feel really good when...- $24.99
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Author:Liberty Bond
Jon Batiste Beautiful Coloring Book: Stress Relieving Adult Coloring Book for All Ages
Practice some colorfully meditative self-care with Jon Batiste Beautiful Adult Coloring Book. Color away the stress and start enjoying life at its fullest.Author: Liberty BondISBN-10: 864205302XISBN-13: 9798642053027Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/29/2020Pages: 36Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.09d- $11.00
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Author:Robben Ford
Ultimate Play-Along Guitar Trax Blues: Book & CD [With CD (Audio)]
The Ultimate Play-Along series puts the aspiring guitarist with some of the finest musicians in the world. This edition includes 12 burning blues play-along trax, a live rhythm section, demo solos by monster guitarists, complete rhythm charts, and solo transcriptions with tab.Author: Robben Ford,...- $19.95
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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...- $110.00
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Author:Randy Fox
Shake Your Hips: The Excello Records Story
The electrifying sounds of groovin' jump blues, Southern-fried rock 'n' roll, fervent black gospel, and the simmering sounds of the Louisiana swamp came bursting out of Nashville, Tennessee in the early 1950s courtesy of Excello Records and its sister Nashboro label.Operating out of Ernie's...- $21.99
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Author:Dean Alger
The Original Guitar Hero and the Power of Music: The Legendary Lonnie Johnson, Music, and Civil Rights
Lonnie Johnson (1894-1970) was a virtuoso guitarist who influenced generations of musicians from Django Reinhardt to Eric Clapton to Bill Wyman and especially B. B. King. Born in New Orleans, he began playing violin and guitar in his father's band at an early age....- $24.95
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Author:Simon Wells
London Life
While many publications claim to have captured the phenomenon that was "swinging London," only one magazine was present to illustrate this extraordinary moment as it unraveled. London Life magazine emerged in October 1965, and over the next fifteen months would document the capital's action...- $36.99
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Author:Joseph Alexander
The Complete Guide to Playing Blues Guitar Book Two - Melodic Phrasing
We all have the same 12 notes.... It's how and when we play them that sets the masters apart from the amateurs. We all know it's important to learn the licks and vocabulary of the musicians who we wish to emulate, but in order...- $19.99
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Author:Terry Thornton
Sounds From The 60s - Club 60 & The Esquire: Behind the scenes during the great days of 60s rock n' roll, blues, pop and jazz
This is a completely new, revised, updated and expanded book: Sounds From the 60s - takes you behind the scenes with the stars of rock n' roll, pop, blues and jazz at two of the top Northern UK clubs, Club 60 & The Esquire,...- $6.75
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Author:Jan Mark Wolkin
Michael Bloomfield: If You Love These Blues: An Oral History
MICHAEL BLOOMFIELD: IF YOU LOVE THESE BLUES AN ORAL HISTORYAuthor: Jan Mark WolkinISBN-10: 1480394645ISBN-13: 9781480394643Publisher: Backbeat BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2014Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d- $24.99
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Author:Kevin D. Greene
The Invention and Reinvention of Big Bill Broonzy
Over the course of his long career, legendary bluesman William "Big Bill" Broonzy (1893-1958) helped shape the trajectory of the genre, from its roots in the rural Mississippi River Delta, through its rise as a popular genre in the North, to its eventual international...- $32.50
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Author:Kevin D. Greene
The Invention and Reinvention of Big Bill Broonzy
Over the course of his long career, legendary bluesman William "Big Bill" Broonzy (1893-1958) helped shape the trajectory of the genre, from its roots in the rural Mississippi River Delta, through its rise as a popular genre in the North, to its eventual international...- $99.00
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Author:Kevin G. Pace
Piano Major Blues: Playing Major Blues Scales & Songs on the Piano for Moderate Level Pianists
Piano Major Blues: Playing Major Blues Scales & Songs on the Piano for Moderate Level Pianists is a book to teach how to play the major blues on the piano. The major blues scales are shown in all 12 keys, each in the following...- $14.10
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Author:Bob Leszczak
Who Did It First?: Great Pop Cover Songs and Their Original Artists
In Who Did It First?: Great Pop Cover Songs and Their Original Artists, the second volume in Bob Leszczak's exciting Who Did It First? series, readers explore the hidden history of the most famous, indeed legendary, pop songs and standards. As Leszczak points out,...- $56.00
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Author:Hal Leonard Corp
Slow Blues [With CD (Audio)]
(Blues Play-Along). For use with all C, Bb, Eb, and Bass Clef 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 inlcuded CD, these first-of-a-kind packages will...- $12.99
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Author:Josh Alan Friedman
Tell the Truth Until They Bleed
"Josh Alan Friedman has chops like a wolf. The French had a phrase for his tropism for the seedy, the gutter, the outcasts: nostalgie de la boue. This book deserves wide attention." --Jerry Wexler, co-founder of Atlantic Records "A can't-put-it-down rock 'n' roll read...- $34.95
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Author:Lincoln T. Jr. Beauchamp
Too Much UnConvenience
Lincoln T Beauchamp, Jr., known artistically as Chicago Beau, was raised in an environment rooted in blues, literature, law, and travel. An unlikely circumstance provided by his Great Migration, agrarian background parents. He is a musician, writer, publisher, and adventurer. He has published several...- $20.00
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Author:Woody Mann
The Logic of the Fretboard: The Art of Acoustic Blues Guitar [With DVD]
(Music Sales America). The ability to improvise and create variations within a song is the essence of the guitar work of the great traditional acoustic blues guitarists such as Blind Blake, Robert Johnson, Big Bill Broonzy, Rev. Gary Davis, and Blind Lemon Jefferson. By...- $27.99
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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"...- $107.95
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Author:Stevie Ray Vaughan
The Best of Stevie Ray Vaughan
(Easy Guitar). Easy arrangements in notes & TAB for 16 songs, plus guitar solos. Includes: Cold Shot * Couldn't Stand the Weather * Crossfire * Love Struck Baby * Pride & Joy * The Sky Is Crying * Texas Flood * You'll Be Mine...- $22.99
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Author:Dave Rubin
Robert Johnson - Signature Licks: A Step-By-Step Breakdown of the Legendary Guitarist's Style and Technique (Bk/Online Audio) [With CD with Examples o
(Signature Licks Guitar). Explore the music of one of the greatest acoustic bluesmen of all time with this fascinating book/audio pack. Blues expert Dave Rubin provides an introduction on Johnson's place in musical history, and extensive notes on his tunings, arrangements, fingerstyle technique and...- $25.99
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Author:Obiora N. Anekwe
Ma Rainey Sings the Blues
This children's book depicts the musical story of Gertrude "Ma Rainey" Pridgett (1886-1939), one of the earliest African American blues singers and one of the first generation of blues singers to record in the 20th century. As illustrator and writer of this children's book,...- $27.95
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Author: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...- $34.99
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Author:Allan Moore
The Cambridge Companion to Blues and Gospel Music
From Robert Johnson to Aretha Franklin, Mahalia Jackson to John Lee Hooker, blues and gospel artists play significant roles in twentieth-century culture. This overview of these genres provides an expression of the twentieth-century black American experience. Histories are questioned; songs and lyrical imagery are...- $32.99
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Author:Elijah Wald
Josh White: Society Blues
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Author: Elijah WaldISBN-10: 0415942047ISBN-13: 9780415942041Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/28/2002Pages: 374Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.16lbsSize: 8.60h x 6.68w x 0.83d- $39.95
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Author:Kevin Young
Jelly Roll: A Blues
In this jaunty and intimate collection, Kevin Young invents a language as shimmying and comic, as low-down and high-hearted, as the music from which he draws inspiration. With titles such as "Stride Piano," "Gutbucket," and "Can-Can," these poems have the sharp completeness of vocalized...- $18.00
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Author:Mark Grimshaw
Sonic Virtuality: Sound as Emergent Perception
In Sonic Virtuality: Sound as Emergent Perception, authors Mark Grimshaw and Tom Garner introduce a novel theory that positions sound within a framework of virtuality. Arguing against the acoustic or standard definition of sound as a sound wave, the book builds a case for...- $115.00
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Author:Steven Zohn
Music for a Mixed Taste: Style, Genre, and Meaning in Telemann's Instrumental Works
Georg Philipp Telemann gave us one of the richest legacies of instrumental music from the eighteenth century. Though considered a definitive contribution to the genre during his lifetime, his concertos, sonatas, and suites were then virtually ignored for nearly two centuries following his death....- $65.00
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Author:Charles Keil
Urban Blues
Charles Keil examines the expressive role of blues bands and performers and stresses the intense interaction between performer and audience. Profiling bluesmen Bobby Bland and B. B. King, Keil argues that they are symbols for the black community, embodying important attitudes and roles--success, strong...- $30.00
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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...- $20.00
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Author:Derek Coller
Feel So Fine
Big Joe Turner was the greatest of the blues shouters. For more than five decades, from Kansas City saloons to Carnegie Hall, through the swing era, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, and soul music, Joe Turner sang, never wavering. Small bands, big bands,...- $30.00
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Author:Stephen J. Nichols
Getting the Blues: What Blues Music Teaches Us about Suffering and Salvation
In Getting the Blues, Stephen Nichols shows how blues music offers powerful insight into the biblical narrative and the life of Jesus. Weaving Bible stories together with intriguing details of the lives of blues musicians, he leads readers in a vivid exploration of how...- $20.00
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Author:Derek Coller
Feel So Fine
Big Joe Turner was the greatest of the blues shouters. For more than five decades, from Kansas City saloons to Carnegie Hall, through the swing era, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, and soul music, Joe Turner sang, never wavering. Small bands, big bands,...- $60.00
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