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  • Life

    The No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller from the Rolling Stones legend

    by Keith Richards ...
    The once-in-a-generation memoir of a rock legend - the No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller.'Electrifying'New York Times'A masterpiece'The Word'Funny, poignant, brutally honest'Sunday Telegraph'Densely packed with incident... immensely readable'Sunday Times... ... Read more

    5,49 €

  • Bass Guitar

    10 Easy Blues Licks

    by Kamel Sadi ...
    10 easy blues licks with tabs and audio. In the key of A, B, E and G. ... Read more

    Free

  • Eric Clapton - Uncensored On the Record

    by Bob Carruthers ...
    This is the true story of Eric Clapton tracing his career from obscurity to fame with the Yardbirds and on to international super stardom as a member of Cream, Blind Faith and as a solo icon.A masterful and comprehensive text, featuring interviews with Clapton from across the decades, coupled with a selection of great photographs, make this amazing eBook edition essential reading for Clapton fans ... Read more

    2,99 €

  • Emmett Miller: An Obscure Minstrel Yodeler Who Changed Music Forever

    by Jack Norton ...
    One of the strangest, most obscure, and intriguing stories from the last century of American music is that of Emmett Miller. He helped define the popular music of the last 75 years, and for the most part, today he is all but forgotten. Emmett Miller left many legacies which influenced the American musical landscape for generations. Certainly his singing style - the odd nasal pitch tone, along with ... Read more

    6,99 €

  • Alto Recorder Songbook - 12 Ladies Blues Songs for the Alto Recorder in F

    Billie Holiday, Berta Hill, Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey + Sounds Online

    by Reynhard Boegl ...
    Songbook with 12 Ladies Blues Songs - simply notated for the Alto Recorder in F.Twelve blues songs, composed and/or performed by four of the most legendary blues ladies: Billie Holiday, Berta "Chippie" Hill, Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey.Each tone of the melodie is shown with fingering images for the Alto Recorder, these are placed under the classical music notation.The ... ... Read more

    6,99 €

  • Alma Negra Alma Blanca

    El Verdadero Rostro Del Blues

    by Patrizia Barrera ...
    Translated by Luis Rodrigalvarez ...
    Un viaje al antiguo mundo del blues, cómo nació, sus orígenes, su trayectoria en el mundo. Además de muchas historias y biografías sobre sus protagonistas, tanto negros como blancos, que ayudaron a crearla y a difundirla al público en general.PUBLISHER: TEKTIME ... Read more

    7,49 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Essential Jazz Etudes...The Blues - Violin

    by Jack Wilkins ...
    This collection of jazz etudes with accompanying online audio gives students a fun and effective way to learn to play jazz style blues lines. The online audio tracks provide a professional rhythm section (piano, bass, drums) to play along with, plus recordings of professional jazz musicians playing each etude. The recordings help to provide a model for the student's stylistic development, and an ... Read more

    13,37 €

  • Blood Stains: The Lyrics Of Jaysen True Blood 2000-2011, Book 10

    Bloodstains: 2000-2011

    by Jaysen True Blood ...
    Series Book 10 - Bloodstains: 2000-2011
    Change always makes its way into what gets written. Change in marital status. Changes in points of views. Music tends to share in these changes as well. Styles. Genres. Concepts.The same goes for what Jaysen True Blood has written. As his personal world has changed, so has the mood of his lyrics. ... Read more

    2,99 €

  • Death of the Blues

    Or Who Killed Fred Davis?

    by Howard Husock ...
    In Cleveland, 1969, a young white teenage blues enthusiast, at work at a summer factory job in the polluted Cuyahoga River Valley, meets a fellow shop floor worker named Fred Davis--who turns out to be an authentic Kansas City blues singer just-released from prison. Young Jon Levine dreams of addressing racial injustice and helping to revive Fred's career. The effort proves tragically complicated, ... Read more

    1,78 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Meet Me with Your Black Drawers On

    My Life in Music

    by Jeannie Cheatham ...
    "A breezy, light, and utterly charming tale of a musician's life with all the ups-and-downs and turns-and-twists that are a part of those of us in jazz." —Marian McPartland, jazz legend and host of the award-winning Marian McPartland's Piano JazzA pianist, singer, songwriter, and co-leader of the Sweet Baby Blues Band, Jeannie Cheatham has played and sung with many of the greats in blues and jazz ... Read more

    13,03 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Infographic Guide to Music

    by Graham Betts ...
    Series series Infographic Guides
    Over 80 stunning, ingenious and absorbing music infographics!Infographic Guide to Music presents unique, witty and surprising facts about every music genre, from pop, rock, indie, house, dance, electronic, rap, country and classical. Mixing musical stats with facts on all your favourite leading legends, it features infamous and often ludicrous tales of the music business.More than just a book of ... Read more

    4,49 €

  • Remembering Mgqumeni

    Polyphonic Narratives of His Life and Music

    by Dr. Kathryn Olsen ...
    A detailed documentation and analysis of music and lyrics of iconic maskanda musician, Mgqumeni, this book offers carefully researched insights in to the contemporary Zulu belief system and associated challenges.Mgqumeni continues to have influence in the maskanda domain as musicians imitate his style in the quest for success in the marketplace. His name is referenced and appropriated by others in ... Read more

    Was 98,46 € Now 85,32 €

  • Going to Cincinnati

    A History of the Blues in the Queen City

    by Steven C. Tracy ...
    Series series Music in American Life
    Available again in paperback, Going to Cincinnati takes readers into the Queen City’s long-overlooked blues scene. Steven C. Tracy’s award-winning book blends history and analysis with full biographical sketches of bluesmen like Albert Washington, H-Bomb Ferguson, Big Joe Duskin, Pigmeat Jarrett. The result is a celebrated, one-of-a-kind portrait of a scene filled with unique and talented ... Read more

    12,82 €

  • Echoes of ’64: The Sound That Carried Across Oceans

    by Paul Davies ...
    1964 was the year Britain found its voice — and the world stopped to listen. In a nation shaking off the last shadows of post‑war grey, a new sound rose from basement clubs, seaside ballrooms, and the restless hearts of the young. It was sharp, bright, insistent — a sound that refused to stay still, refused to stay local, refused to stay quiet. Within months it would spill across borders, across ... Read more

    7,49 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rory Gallagher - The Later Years

    by Lauren Alex O'Hagan, Rayne Morales ...
    Rather than a traditional biography, Rory Gallagher - The Later Years takes the format of a series of essays. It consists of six core sections ('In the Studio', 'On the Stage 1985-1991', 'Introducing the New Rory Gallagher Band', 'On the Stage 1992-1995', 'Ireland', 'Rory in the 21st Century') in which eighteen chapters are grouped together; however, each chapter can be read independently. ... Read more

    10,06 €

  • Americana Portrait Sessions

    by Jeff Fasano ...
    Americana Portrait Sessions is the first photography book to take a comprehensive view of contemporary Americana music. The collection features intimate portraits that reveal the strength, heart, and soul of nearly two hundred great artists from the big tent that is Americana music, all shot through the expert lens of Jeff Fasano.Fasano's unparalleled access to Americana artists like Sheryl Crow, ... Read more

    12,92 €

  • Improvising Without Scales

    The Intervallic Guitar System of Carl Verheyen

    by Carl Verheyen ...
    In this remarkable book, Carl Verheyen teaches his philosophy and techniques for improvising. Rather than hashing out scales, Carl teaches how to play lines with strong melodic content. By approaching melodies through intervals and chord qualities, infinite lines can be generated. Carl stresses the importance of collecting lines that can be used in improvised settings. These lines and examples ... Read more

    13,37 €

  • English Rhythm and Blues

    Where Language and Music Come Together

    by Patrice Paul Larroque ...
    Patrice Larroque hypothesizes that early blues singers may have been influenced by the trochaic rhythm of English. English is stressed and timed, which means that there is a regular beat to the language, just like there is a beat in a blues song. This regular beat falls on important words in the sentence and unimportant ones do not get stressed. They are “squeezed” between the salient words to ... Read more

    51,13 €

  • The Blues of Gravy Bones Johnson and the Butter Biscuit Band

    by The Steve ...
    Gravy Bones Johnson is one of the most important and greatest bluesmen who ever lived. Found on the side of railroad tracks by a blind sharecropper who raised him as his own, Gravy Bones embodies the Mississippi Delta Blues in a way no one ever did before or since.With an astonishing song catalog numbering in the thousands, he is also one of the most prolific songwriters in history.Leadbelly ... Read more

    1,99 €

  • Blood Stains: The Lyrics Of Jaysen True Blood 2000-2011, Book 13

    Bloodstains: 2000-2011

    by Jaysen True Blood ...
    Series Book 13 - Bloodstains: 2000-2011
    My Dream expresses my slow disillusion with the so called American dream. The illusion had lifted and I began to realize exactly what lies had been fed to all. Head On Collision continues the realization that something has never been quite right. And Nothing Happened was written in response to the dire Y2K predictions made by the evangelical preachers in 1999 about the end of the world. Prying ... Read more

    2,99 €

  • School of Mandolin: Blues

    by Joe Carr ...
    While the mandolin is not as synonymous with the blues as the guitar, the fiddle's fretted cousin was an important lead voice in many string blues bands of the 1920s through the 1940s including the Mississippi Sheiks, the Memphis Jug Band and the Dallas String Band. In the hands of great players including Carl Martin, Charlie McCoy, Yank Rachell, Howard Armstrong and Johnny Young, the mandolin was ... Read more

    8,91 €

  • Beyoncé

    by Tshepo Mokoena ...
    Series series Lives of the Musicians
    Beyoncé is not simply a pop sensation. She is a cultural phenomenon empowering the oppressed and dispossessed, challenging white privilege and misogyny and exploding gender politics. But who is Beyoncé Knowles-Carter? And how did a small girl from Houston become the strong confident woman whose albums sell in their millions and whose songs have become anthems against racial and sexual ... Read more

    3,99 €

  • Blues With a Twist

    Over 50 Years of Behind the Scenes Blues Adventures

    by Twist Turner ...
    Get a behind-the-scenes look at what it was like for a still wet-behind-the-ears young blues drummer from Seattle to move to Chicago, where he headed straight for the ghetto and became immersed and accepted in the local blues scene. Having worked with a literal who’s who of the blues over the last four decades there are plenty of great stories to tell. ... Read more

    8,91 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Life and Music of Booker "Bukka" White

    Recalling the Blues

    by David W. Johnson ...
    Series series American Made Music Series
    2025 Recipient of a Certificate of Merit in the category of Best Historical Research in Blues, R&B, Gospel, Hip Hop, or Soul Music from the Association for Recorded Sound CollectionsBooker “Bukka” White (1905–1977) was one of the most important blues musicians of the twentieth century. The twelve songs he recorded in Chicago in 1940 are considered to be among the finest in country blues. In The ... Read more

    16,10 €