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Nothing but the Blues

Author : Lawrence Cohn
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0789206072
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Nothing but the Blues written by Lawrence Cohn and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1999-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is our most passionate music, rooted in ancient Africa but brought to blossom in America at the doorstep of the twentieth century. It is a living heritage of song born in poverty, persecution, and hard labor, born of love and love betrayed, of holiness and sin, the pleasures and the pains of the flesh, the experience of tragedy, comedy, drunkenness, despair, desolation, and pure joy. It is the blues. At root, the blues is rich in its simplicity, but it has flowered across the years in a variety of rare complexity. Perhaps no form of popular art is more immediately appealing than the blues, yet so rewards a thorough knowledge of its finer points. In eleven authoritative essays commissioned especially for the book, Nothing But the Blues traces the African-American origins of the music, its early development as popular entertainment, its early recorded manifestations, its regional differentiation (Mid-South, Tidewater-Piedmont, Chicago, Detroit, New York, Los Angeles), its many stylistic dimensions, and its contemporary manifestations. Country blues, urban blues, the evolution of rhythm and blues, rock 'n' roll, and the blues revival are all fully covered. But the written history is only part of the story. Blues fans have always treasured rare photographs of their heroes, and Nothing But the Blues is gloriously illustrated with posed and candid shots of the musicians as well as photographs of such one-of-a-kind artifacts and documents as Leadbelly's NYPD rap sheet and classic recording contracts. Nothing But the Blues features an introduction by one of the genre's living legends, B. B. King, and a comprehensive "best of the best" discography, including current and rereleased recordings as well as the collectors' treasures to go after. Blues is more popular than ever before. Not only are reissues of historical blues classics selling in unprecedented numbers, but a whole new crop of vital young blues artists is active in clubs and on record today. Nothing But the Blues is a lavishly illustrated comprehensive history of the music and the musicians, as well as the promoters, producers, and others who have shaped--and continue to shape--this powerful and enduringly popular American musical art form.

It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues

Author : Charles Bevel
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573627996
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (279 download)

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Download or read book It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues written by Charles Bevel and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sizzling revue of the blues and blues infused songs that changed the way the world hears the human heartbeat took New York by storm. Ravishing songs trace the evolution of the blues from Africa to Mississippi to Memphis to Chicago.

Nothing But the Blues

Author : Abbeville Gifts
Publisher : Gift Line
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nothing But the Blues written by Abbeville Gifts and published by Gift Line. This book was released on 1994-01-12 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nothing but the Blues

Author : Bert Konowitz
Publisher : Alfred Music
ISBN 13 : 9781457408854
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Nothing but the Blues written by Bert Konowitz and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2005-05-03 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a complete approach to playing traditional and contemporary blues. Techniques are given for practicing and creating the blues sound including blues scales, blue notes, blues progressions, walking and boogie bass lines. Learn how to voice and play contemporary blues chords. Be able to perform full arrangements of standards in a blues set. With the recording, you will be able to play with a great sounding live blues band.

Blues Ain't Nothing But a Good Soul Feeling Bad

Author : Sheldon B. Kopp
Publisher : Touchstone
ISBN 13 : 9780671768386
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book Blues Ain't Nothing But a Good Soul Feeling Bad written by Sheldon B. Kopp and published by Touchstone. This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daily meditations cover identity, life assessment, goals, self-esteem, fear, risk taking, humility, and freedom.

Nothing But Blues

Author : Jamey Aebersold
Publisher : Jazz Play-A-Long for All Instr
ISBN 13 : 9781562241285
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book Nothing But Blues written by Jamey Aebersold and published by Jazz Play-A-Long for All Instr. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The blues have contained the very essence of the jazz sound since the 1920s. A player who masters the sound and feel of the blues will play other jazz tunes in a manner that will inspire the listener. Contains 11 different blues melodies and is a natural follow-up to Volume 1 or Volume 21. Tempos are not fast. Presented in various keys with a variety of moods from slow to rock. Chords and scales are written in the staff for each track. A special guitar edition is now available (item #24-V02G)! Beginning/Intermediate. Rhythm Section: Dan Haerle (p); Rufus Reid (b); Mike Hyman (d). Suggested Prerequisites: Volumes 24, 1, and 21. Titles: Mr. Super Hip * Horizontal (C Blues) * 6/8 Modal Blues * Slow Blues in G * Slow Blues in F * Fast Blues in F * Fast Blues in B-flat * Minor Blues in C * Home Stretch * Long-Meter Jazz/Rock * Bird Blues.

Ain't Nothing But a Man

Author : Scott Reynolds Nelson
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781426300004
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ain't Nothing But a Man written by Scott Reynolds Nelson and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historian Scott Reynolds Nelson recounts how he came to discover the real John Henry, an African-American railroad worker who became a legend in the famous song.

The Original Blues

Author : Lynn Abbott
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496810058
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book The Original Blues written by Lynn Abbott and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2017-02-27 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this volume, Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff complete their groundbreaking trilogy on the development of African American popular music. Fortified by decades of research, the authors bring to life the performers, entrepreneurs, critics, venues, and institutions that were most crucial to the emergence of the blues in black southern vaudeville theaters; the shadowy prehistory and early development of the blues is illuminated, detailed, and given substance. At the end of the nineteenth century, vaudeville began to replace minstrelsy as America's favorite form of stage entertainment. Segregation necessitated the creation of discrete African American vaudeville theaters. When these venues first gained popularity ragtime coon songs were the standard fare. Insular black southern theaters provided a safe haven, where coon songs underwent rehabilitation and blues songs suitable for the professional stage were formulated. The process was energized by dynamic interaction between the performers and their racially-exclusive audience. The first blues star of black vaudeville was Butler "String Beans" May, a blackface comedian from Montgomery, Alabama. Before his bizarre, senseless death in 1917, String Beans was recognized as the "blues master piano player of the world." His musical legacy, elusive and previously unacknowledged, is preserved in the repertoire of country blues singer-guitarists and pianists of the race recording era. While male blues singers remained tethered to the role of blackface comedian, female "coon shouters" acquired a more dignified aura in the emergent persona of the "blues queen." Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and most of their contemporaries came through this portal; while others, such as forgotten blues heroine Ora Criswell and her protégé Trixie Smith, ingeniously reconfigured the blackface mask for their own subversive purposes. In 1921 black vaudeville activity was effectively nationalized by the Theater Owners Booking Association (T.O.B.A.). In collaboration with the emergent race record industry, T.O.B.A. theaters featured touring companies headed by blues queens with records to sell. By this time the blues had moved beyond the confines of entertainment for an exclusively black audience. Small-time black vaudeville became something it had never been before--a gateway to big-time white vaudeville circuits, burlesque wheels, and fancy metropolitan cabarets. While the 1920s was the most glamorous and remunerative period of vaudeville blues, the prior decade was arguably even more creative, having witnessed the emergence, popularization, and early development of the original blues on the African American vaudeville stage.

Nothing But the Blues

Author : Mary Katherine Aldin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nothing But the Blues written by Mary Katherine Aldin and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven essays trace the origins of the Blues, early recordings, different styles, and more. Photographs of many of the musicians are included.

Nothing but the Blues

Author : Lawrence Cohn
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0789206072
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Clapton

Author : Eric Clapton
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 076792536X
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book Clapton written by Eric Clapton and published by Crown. This book was released on 2008-05-27 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With striking intimacy and candor, Eric Clapton tells the story of his eventful and inspiring life in this poignant and honest autobiography. More than a rock star, Eric Clapton is an icon, a living embodiment of the history of rock music. Well known for his reserve in a profession marked by self-promotion, flamboyance, and spin, he now chronicles, for the first time, his remarkable personal and professional journeys. Born illegitimate in 1945 and raised by his grandparents, Eric never knew his father and, until the age of nine, believed his actual mother to be his sister. In his early teens his solace was the guitar, and his incredible talent would make him a cult hero in the clubs of Britain and inspire devoted fans to scrawl “Clapton is God” on the walls of London’s Underground. With the formation of Cream, the world's first supergroup, he became a worldwide superstar, but conflicting personalities tore the band apart within two years. His stints in Blind Faith, in Delaney and Bonnie and Friends, and in Derek and the Dominos were also short-lived but yielded some of the most enduring songs in history, including the classic “Layla.” During the late sixties he played as a guest with Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan, as well as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and longtime friend George Harrison. It was while working with the latter that he fell for George’s wife, Pattie Boyd, a seemingly unrequited love that led him to the depths of despair, self-imposed seclusion, and drug addiction. By the early seventies he had overcome his addiction and released the bestselling album 461 Ocean Boulevard, with its massive hit “I Shot the Sheriff.” He followed that with the platinum album Slowhand, which included “Wonderful Tonight,” the touching love song to Pattie, whom he finally married at the end of 1979. A short time later, however, Eric had replaced heroin with alcohol as his preferred vice, following a pattern of behavior that not only was detrimental to his music but contributed to the eventual breakup of his marriage. In the eighties he would battle and begin his recovery from alcoholism and become a father. But just as his life was coming together, he was struck by a terrible blow: His beloved four-year-old son, Conor, died in a freak accident. At an earlier time Eric might have coped with this tragedy by fleeing into a world of addiction. But now a much stronger man, he took refuge in music, responding with the achingly beautiful “Tears in Heaven.” Clapton is the powerfully written story of a survivor, a man who has achieved the pinnacle of success despite extraordinary demons. It is one of the most compelling memoirs of our time.

King of the Blues

Author : Daniel de Vise
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802158072
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book King of the Blues written by Daniel de Vise and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 the most important artist the blues has ever produced.”—Eric Clapton Riley “Blues Boy” King (1925-2015) was born into deep poverty in Jim Crow Mississippi. Wrenched away from his sharecropper father, B.B. lost his mother at age ten, leaving him more or less alone. Music became his emancipation from exhausting toil in the fields. Inspired by a local minister’s guitar and by the records of Blind Lemon Jefferson and T-Bone Walker, encouraged by his cousin, the established blues man Bukka White, B.B. taught his guitar to sing in the unique solo style that, along with his relentless work ethic and humanity, became his trademark. In turn, generations of artists claimed him as inspiration, from Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton to Carlos Santana and the Edge. King of the Blues presents the vibrant life and times of a trailblazing giant. Witness to dark prejudice and lynching in his youth, B.B. performed incessantly (some 15,000 concerts in 90 countries over nearly 60 years)—in some real way his means of escaping his past. Several of his concerts, including his landmark gig at Chicago’s Cook County Jail, endure in legend to this day. His career roller-coasted between adulation and relegation, but he always rose back up. At the same time, his story reveals the many ways record companies took advantage of artists, especially those of color. Daniel de Visé has interviewed almost every surviving member of B.B. King’s inner circle—family, band members, retainers, managers, and more—and their voices and memories enrich and enliven the life of this Mississippi blues titan, whom his contemporary Bobby “Blue” Bland simply called “the man.”

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Author : Tom Robbins
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553897896
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (538 download)

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Download or read book Even Cowgirls Get the Blues written by Tom Robbins and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2003-06-17 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is one of those special novels—a piece of working magic, warm, funny, and sane.”—Thomas Pynchon The whooping crane rustlers are girls. Young girls. Cowgirls, as a matter of fact, all “bursting with dimples and hormones”—and the FBI has never seen anything quite like them. Yet their rebellion at the Rubber Rose Ranch is almost overshadowed by the arrival of the legendary Sissy Hankshaw, a white-trash goddess literally born to hitchhike, and the freest female of them all. Freedom, its prizes and its prices, is a major theme of Tom Robbins’s classic tale of eccentric adventure. As his robust characters attempt to turn the tables on fate, the reader is drawn along on a tragicomic joyride across the badlands of sexuality, wild rivers of language, and the frontiers of the mind.

Nothing But the Blues

Author : Mike Leadbitter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nothing But the Blues written by Mike Leadbitter and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Blues of Heaven

Author : Barbara Ras
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822988216
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book The Blues of Heaven written by Barbara Ras and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Blues of Heaven, Barbara Ras delivers her characteristic subjects with new daring that both rattles and beguiles. Here are poems of grief over her brother’s death; doors to an idiosyncratic working-class childhood among Polish immigrants; laments for nature and politics out of kilter. Ras portrays the climate crisis, guns out of control, the reckless injustice and ignorance of the United States government. At the same time, her poems nimbly focus on particulars—these facts, these consequences—bringing the wreckage of unfathomable harm home with immediacy and integrity. Though her subjects may be dire, Ras also weaves her wise humor throughout, moving deftly from sardonic to whimsical to create an expansive, ardent, and memorable book.

Eric Clapton

Author : Eric Clapton
Publisher : Schirmer Trade Books
ISBN 13 : 9780825614842
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (148 download)

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Download or read book Eric Clapton written by Eric Clapton and published by Schirmer Trade Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Music Sales America). A definitive collection of 33 songs, many never before in print. Features all new guitar tablature arrangements, photos, a concise biography and discography. Includes: Alberta * Born Under a Bad Sign * Cocaine * Comin' Home * Crossroads * Five Long Years * I Looked Away * I'm So Glad * I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man * If I Don't Be There by Morning * It Hurts Me Too Much * and more. *

The Land where the Blues Began

Author : Alan Lomax
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780385312851
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book The Land where the Blues Began written by Alan Lomax and published by . This book was released on 1994-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 1993 National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction, this mususical and cultural exploration of the rich, sorrow-laden birth of the blues is an intimate and respectful look at an integral part of African American culture--a master work that has been 60 years in the making. Photos.