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  • Play Pretty Blues by Wright, Snowden
    Snowden Wright

    Play Pretty Blues

    The mysteries of blues legend Robert Johnson's life and death long ago became myth. Part researched reconstruction, part vivid imagination, this lyrical novel brings Johnson alive through the voices of his six wives, revealing the husband and son inside the legend, illuminating the vacuum...
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  • Slide Guitar Soloing Techniques by Clay, Levi
    Levi Clay

    Slide Guitar Soloing Techniques

    Learning how to play slide guitar is one of the few techniques can change your whole approach to the guitar, so much so that it becomes a whole new instrument. In this book, you will master the art and technique of modern electric slide...
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  • Po' Monkey's: Portrait of a Juke Joint by Jacks, Will
    Will Jacks

    Po' Monkey's: Portrait of a Juke Joint

    Outside of Merigold, Mississippi, off an unmarked dirt road, stands Po' Monkey's, perhaps the most famous house in Mississippi and the last rural juke joint in the state, now closed to the public. Before the death of the lounge's owner, Willie Seaberry, in 2016,...
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  • The Life and Legacy of B.B. King: A Mississippi Blues Icon by Williams, Diane
    Diane Williams

    The Life and Legacy of B.B. King: A Mississippi Blues Icon

    Blues legend B.B. King spent his life sharing the music of his soul, which shone relentlessly through hardship and triumph alike.Born on a cotton plantation in 1925, the man born Riley B. King would grow up to be one of the most influential blues...
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  • The World Don't Owe Me Nothing: The Life and Times of Delta Bluesman Honeyboy Edwards by Edwards, David Honeyboy
    David Honeyboy Edwards

    The World Don't Owe Me Nothing: The Life and Times of Delta Bluesman Honeyboy Edwards

    This vivid oral snapshot of an America that planted the blues is full of rhythmic grace. From the son of a sharecropper to an itinerant bluesman, Honeyboy's stories of good friends Charlie Patton, Big Walter Horton, Little Walter Jacobs, and Robert Johnson are a...
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  • Small Hours: The Long Night of John Martyn by Thomson, Graeme
    Graeme Thomson

    Small Hours

    Did any musician in the Seventies fly so free as John Martyn did on Bless The Weather, Solid Air, Inside Out and One World? Did any fall so far? Small Hours is an intimate, unflinching biography of one of the great maverick artists. Though...
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  • Memphis Man: Living High, Laying Low by Nix, Don
    Don Nix

    Memphis Man: Living High, Laying Low

    When Don Nix began his career in Memphis, he was still in high school. Over time, his first band, the Mar-Keys, evolved into Booker T. and the MGs. As a producer and musician, Nix worked with Freddie King, Furry Lewis, Albert King, Delaney and...
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  • Ragged But Right: Black Traveling Shows, coon Songs, and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz by Abbott, Lynn
    Lynn Abbott

    Ragged But Right: Black Traveling Shows, Coon Songs, and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz

    The commercial explosion of ragtime in the early twentieth century created previously unimagined opportunities for black performers. However, every prospect was mitigated by systemic racism. The biggest hits of the ragtime era weren't Scott Joplin's stately piano rags. "Coon songs," with their ugly name,...
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  • Soul of the Man: Bobby Blue Bland by Farley, Charles
    Charles Farley

    Soul of the Man: Bobby Blue Bland

    Bobby "Blue" Bland's silky-smooth vocal style and captivating live performances helped propel the blues out of Delta juke joints and into urban clubs and upscale theaters. Soul of the Man: Bobby "Blue" Bland relates how Bland, along with longtime friend B. B. King, and...
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  • Showtime Piano Jazz & Blues: Level 2a by Faber, Nancy
    Nancy Faber

    Showtime Piano Jazz & Blues - Level 2a

    (Faber Piano Adventures ). ShowTime Piano Jazz & Blues is a spirited collection of jazz and blues pieces arranged for the Level 2A piano student. The student will enjoy creating the sounds of jazz and blues while improving reading and rhythmic skills. The book...
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  • Portrait of a Phantom: Story of Robert Johnson's Lost Photograph, the by Schein, Zeke
    Zeke Schein

    Portrait of a Phantom: Story of Robert Johnson's Lost Photograph, the

    A true music-lover's journey into the past! Late one night in 2005, Zeke Schein made an amazing discovery while searching for a vintage guitar on eBay: a grainy, battered photograph captioned Old Snapshot Blues Guitar BB King Neither man looked like King, but one...
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  • John Lee Sonny Boy Williamson: The Blues Harmonica of Chicago's Bronzeville by Inaba, Mitsutoshi
    Mitsutoshi Inaba

    John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson: The Blues Harmonica of Chicago's Bronzeville

    John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson was one of the most popular blues harmonica players and singers from the late 1930s through the 1940s. Recording for the Bluebird Records and RCA Victor labels, Sonny Boy shaped Chicago's music scene with an innovative style that gave...
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  • The Complete Blues Guitar Method Complete Edition: Book & Online Video/Audio by Hamburger, David
    David Hamburger

    The Complete Blues Guitar Method Complete Edition: Book & Online Video/Audio

    Anyone interested in playing blues guitar can pick up this well-paced, comprehensive method and get started right away. Beginning concepts include blues theory, left-hand technique, call-and-response phrasing, intros, turnarounds, improvisation, and the rhythmic styles of Texas swing, slow blues, and minor blues. Intermediate topics...
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  • Sitting in -- Blues Guitar: Backing Tracks and Improv Lessons, Book & DVD-ROM by Meeker, Jared
    Jared Meeker

    Sitting in -- Blues Guitar: Backing Tracks and Improv Lessons, Book & DVD-ROM

    Soloing is an important part of your playing, but practicing on your own doesn't always get the creative juices flowing because there is nothing quite like the experience of sitting in with a full band. Since jamming with other musicians is not always possible,...
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  • South Carolina Blues by Delune, Clair
    Clair Delune

    South Carolina Blues

    The history of South Carolina blues is a long, deep--and sometimes painful--story. However, it is a narrative with aspects as compelling as the music itself. Geographical differences in America led to variations in the styles of music that developed from African rhythms. The wet,...
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  • South Carolina Blues by Delune, Clair
    Clair Delune

    South Carolina Blues

    The history of South Carolina blues is a long, deep--and sometimes painful--story. However, it is a narrative with aspects as compelling as the music itself. Geographical differences in America led to variations in the styles of music that developed from African rhythms. The wet,...
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  • Southern Crossroads: Georgia Blues by Akamatsu, Rhetta
    Rhetta Akamatsu

    Southern Crossroads: Georgia Blues

    ...Captures no only the rich history of the blues in Georgia but the strong and vibrant Blues scene that exists today..." - George Klein, Co-President of the Atlanta Blues Society, from the ForewordTake a journey into the rich territory of Georgia's blues history starting...
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  • Transatlantic Roots Music: Folk, Blues, and National Identities by Terry, Jill
    Jill Terry

    Transatlantic Roots Music: Folk, Blues, and National Identities

    This book presents a collection of essays on the debates about origins, authenticity, and identity in folk and blues music. The essays had their origins in an international conference on the Transatlantic routes of American roots music, out of which emerged common themes and...
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  • Soul of the Man: Bobby Blue Bland by Farley, Charles
    Charles Farley

    Soul of the Man: Bobby Blue Bland

    Bobby "Blue" Bland's silky-smooth vocal style and captivating live performances helped propel the blues out of Delta juke joints and into urban clubs and upscale theaters. Until now, his story has never been told in a book-length biography. Soul of the Man: Bobby "Blue"...
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  • The Complete Guide to Playing Blues Guitar Book Three - Beyond Pentatonics by Joseph Alexander
    Joseph Alexander

    The Complete Guide to Playing Blues Guitar Book Three - Beyond Pentatonics

    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 targeting the right note at exactly the right time. The Complete Guide...
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  • Nobody Knows Where the Blues Come from: Lyrics and History by Springer, Robert
    Robert Springer

    Nobody Knows Where the Blues Come from: Lyrics and History

    Musicians and music scholars rightly focus on the sounds of the blues and the colorful life stories of blues performers. Equally important and, until now, inadequately studied are the lyrics. The international contributors to Nobody Knows Where the Blues Come From explore this aspect...
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  • Your Personal Book of Solo Fingerstyle Blues Guitar: Fundamental, Advanced & Improvisation: (suitable for electric & acoustic guitar) by Su, Scott
    Scott Su

    Your Personal Book of Solo Fingerstyle Blues Guitar: Fundamental, Advanced & Improvisation: (suitable for electric & acoustic guitar)

    ★ Great volume of 12-measure exercises, 75 demo songs, arrangements, and MP3 downloads, ...more in-depth experiences in the beauty of Blues music. ★ Various types of theme-oriented Blues trainings on melody, harmony, rhythms and fingerstyle, ...more diverse and rich Blues playing. ★ Step-by-step hands-on...
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  • Slide Guitar Soloing Collection by Clay, Levi
    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...
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  • Music at the Intersection of Brazilian Culture: An Introduction to Music, Race, and Food by Dekaney, Elisa Macedo
    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...
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  • Urban Music Education: A Practical Guide for Teachers by Fitzpatrick-Harnish, Kate
    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...
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  • 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 & by Zoro
    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...
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  • Stefan Grossman's Early Masters of American Blues Guitar: The Anthology of Country Blues Guitar, Book & Online Audio [With CD] by Grossman, Stefan
    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...
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  • Jam with Gary Moore [With CD (Audio)] by Moore, Gary
    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...
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  • Rollin' and Tumblin': The Postwar Blues Guitarists by Obrecht, Jas
    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
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  • Love in Vain: A Vision of Robert Johnson by Greenberg, Alan
    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...
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  • Stormy Monday: The T-Bone Walker Story by Dance, Helen Oakley
    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,...
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  • Piano Blues: Playing Minor Blues Scales & Songs on the Piano for Moderate Level Pianists by Pace, Kevin G.
    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...
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  • The Complete Guide to Playing Blues Guitar: Book Three - Beyond Pentatonics by Alexander, Joseph
    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...
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  • Portrait of a Phantom: The Story of Robert Johnson's Lost Photograph by Schein, Zeke
    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...
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  • Lead Belly: A Life in Pictures by Reynolds, John
    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...
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  • W. C. Handy: The Life and Times of the Man Who Made the Blues by Robertson, David
    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...
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  • Jim Crow's Counterculture: The Blues and Black Southerners, 1890-1945 by Lawson, R. a.
    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...
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  • The Blues Cookbook by Hoffman, Laura Ann
    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...
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  • Mojo Hand: The Life and Music of Lightnin' Hopkins by O'Brien, Timothy J.
    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...
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  • The Legend of Booker's Guitar by Daniels, Peter
    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...
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  • Jon Batiste Beautiful Coloring Book: Stress Relieving Adult Coloring Book for All Ages by Bond, Liberty
    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
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  • Ultimate Play-Along Guitar Trax Blues: Book & CD [With CD (Audio)] by Ford, Robben
    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,...
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  • Sweet Bitter Blues: Washington, DC's Homemade Blues by Wiggins, Phil
    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...
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  • Shake Your Hips: The Excello Records Story by Fox, Randy
    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...
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  • The Original Guitar Hero and the Power of Music: The Legendary Lonnie Johnson, Music, and Civil Rights by Alger, Dean
    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....
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  • London Life by Wells, Simon
    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...
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  • The Complete Guide to Playing Blues Guitar Book Two - Melodic Phrasing by Joseph Alexander
    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...
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  • Sounds From The 60s - Club 60 & The Esquire: Behind the scenes during the great days of 60s rock n' roll, blues, pop and jazz by Thornton, Terry
    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,...
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  • Michael Bloomfield: If You Love These Blues: An Oral History by Wolkin, Jan Mark
    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
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  • The Invention and Reinvention of Big Bill Broonzy by Greene, Kevin D.
    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...
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