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  • Paul Weller - The Changing Man

    by Paolo Hewitt ...
    Paolo Hewitt has known Paul Weller since they were both teenagers in the depths of Woking, through his ascent to fame with The Jam, the halcyon years of The Style Council and for all of his critically acclaimed solo career. Hewitt has even been the inspiration for some of Weller's songs - and he has extraordinary in-depth knowledge of the inspiration behind the rest.Once, when Hewitt interviewed ... Read more

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  • Electric Guitar Lessons for Beginners

    Teach Yourself How to Play Guitar (Free Audio Available)

    by LearnToPlayMusic.com, Peter Gelling ...
    Series series Progressive
    Teach yourself how to play guitar with our easy electric guitar lessons for beginners.***Comes with online access to free audio demonstrating all examples. Hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along with the backing band.***"A really awesome book. I bought an Electric Guitar years ago, but even basic things were difficult to master until I used this book. I highly recommend it." - ... Read more

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  • Black in Blues

    How a Color Tells the Story of My People

    by Imani Perry ...
    A “vast, multifaceted and enchanting” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune) meditation on the color blue and its fascinating role in Black history and culture, from National Book Award winner Imani Perry, “the most important interpreter of Black life in our time” (Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.)Throughout history, the concept of Blackness has been remarkably intertwined with another color: blue. In daily life, it is ... Read more

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  • Blues Mandolin Man

    The Life and Music of Yank Rachell

    by Richard Congress ...
    Yank Rachell and his mandolin playing style moved every musician lucky enough to hear him perform in the early sixties. When he died in April 1997, he left behind a stack of unanswered requests to tour Europe and to play blues festivals in the United States.In Blues Mandolin Man: The Life and Music of Yank Rachell, Richard Congress delivers the first biography of a family man whose playing ... Read more

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  • Talking Swing

    The British Big Bands

    by Sheila Tracy ...
    From Palace to Palais, the musicians who played in the big bands tell their own stories, bringing to life an unforgettable era.Pre-war reminiscences give an insight into a never-to-be-forgotten era, when London's nightclubs were the haunts of the aristocracy and of royalty, and the Prince of Wales would jump at any opportunity to play drums with the resident band. The elegant world of top hat, ... Read more

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  • Whose Blues?

    Facing Up to Race and the Future of the Music

    by Adam Gussow ...
    Mamie Smith’s pathbreaking 1920 recording of “Crazy Blues” set the pop music world on fire, inaugurating a new African American market for “race records.” Not long after, such records also brought black blues performance to an expanding international audience. A century later, the mainstream blues world has transformed into a multicultural and transnational melting pot, taking the music far beyond ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • Rhythm and Blues in New Orleans

    by John Broven ...
    A chronicle of the rise and development of a unique musical form.Inducted into the Blues Foundation's Blues Hall of Fame under its original title Walking to New Orleans, this fascinating history focuses on the music of major R&B artists and the crucial contributions of the New Orleans music industry. Newly revised for this edition, much of the material comes firsthand from those who helped create ... Read more

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  • Gravy Bones Johnson: This cat's out of the bag

    by The Steve ...
    A fire in a shack where Gravy Bones recorded burnt down and it was feared the master recordings were destroyed. In 2011 the masters were found stored in the attic of a former whorehouse that Gravy Bones used to "patronize".This album is regarded as "dark" by many critics due to its topics of alcohol, the Devil, and women of questionable morality. The lyrics reflect Gravy Bones slow immersion into ... Read more

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  • Bon - Der letzte Highway

    Die unerzählte Geschichte von Bon Scott und AC/DC

    by Jesse Fink ...
    Translated by Paul Fleischmann ...
    Series series Musiker-Biographie
    Mit seinem Tod 1980 wurde Bon Scott endgültig zu einer Ikone des Rock, und um jene kalte Februarnacht in London, in der AC/DCs charismatischer Leadsänger in einem abgestellten Auto nach einer Sauftour sein Leben aushauchte, ranken sich unzählige Legenden. Jedes Jahr gesellen sich ein paar neue Geschichten hinzu. Jedes Jahr entstehen neue Gerüchte. Jesse Fink, Autor des von der Kritik gefeierten ... Read more

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  • 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. ... Read more

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  • Blues: The Basics

    by Dick Weissman ...
    Series series The Basics
    Blues: The Basics offers a concise introduction to a century of the blues. Organized chronologically, it focuses on the major eras in the growth and development of this popular musical style. Material includes:a definition of the blues and the major genres within itkey artists such as Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Robert Johnson and Blind Lemon Jeffersonkey recordingsComplete with timelines ... ... Read more

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  • You Can Teach Yourself Blues Piano

    by Uri Ayn Rovner ...
    The exciting sound of the blues, born in America, finds its way into all styles of music heard around the world. These days, everyone hears that familiar "color" in rock, pop, folk, classical, and other jazz styles. This easy-to-follow and complete programmed course teaches you to create your own blues music at the piano. Explanations and examples are given and become more advanced. This book ... Read more

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  • Blues and Trouble

    Twelve Stories

    by Tom Piazza ...
    Series series Banner Books
    Exploring the diverse landscape of American life, the stories in Blues and Trouble: Twelve Stories capture the lives of people caught between circumstance and their own natures or on the run from fate, from a Jewish couple encountering a dealer in Nazi memorabilia to the troubled family of a Gulf Coast fisherman awaiting a hurricane.Tom Piazza’s debut short story collection, originally published ... Read more

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  • Blues Guitar Vol. 5

    25 Licks in A

    by Kamel Sadi ...
    Series Book 5 - Blues Guitar
    25 new easy blues licks in the key of A with the minor pentatonic scale. Tabs, fingerings for each note and pick stroke (up and down). 25 audio tracks (normal tempo at 100 BPM) and 25 audio tracks (slow tempo at 75 BPM). Plus backing tracks and drum tracks. ... Read more

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  • The Wild Tchoupitoulas’ The Wild Tchoupitoulas

    by Dr. Bryan Wagner ...
    Series series 33 1/3
    The Wild Tchoupitoulas is a definitive expression of the modern New Orleans sound. From "Hey Pocky A-Way" to "Big Chief Got a Golden Crown," the album draws on carnival traditions stretching back a century, adapting songs from the Mardi Gras Indians. Music chanted in the streets with tambourines and makeshift percussion is transformed throughout the album into electric rhythm and blues accented ... Read more

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  • Preachin' the Blues

    The Life and Times of Son House

    by Daniel Beaumont ...
    In June of 1964, three young, white blues fans set out from New York City in a Volkswagen, heading for the Mississippi Delta in search of a musical legend. So begins Preachin' the Blues, the biography of American blues signer and guitarist Eddie James "Son" House, Jr. (1902 - 1988). House pioneered an innovative style, incorporating strong repetitive rhythms with elements of southern gospel and ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • Who Did It First?

    Great Rhythm and Blues Cover Songs and Their Original Artists

    by Bob Leszczak ...
    Series series Who Did It First?
    “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 aren’t very different—some songs just don’t climb the charts the first time they’re recorded. However, with perseverance, the ideal singer, ... Read more

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  • Looking to Get Lost

    Adventures in Music and Writing

    by Peter Guralnick ...
    By the bestselling author of Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock ‘n’ Roll and Last Train the Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley, this dazzling new book of profiles is a culmination of Peter Guralnick’s remarkable work, which from the start has encompassed the full sweep of blues, gospel, country, and rock 'n' roll.It covers old ground from new perspectives, offering deeply felt, masterful, and ... Read more

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  • Violin Dreams

    by Arnold Steinhardt ...
    “A rapturous, witty, and passionate memoir ... Violin Dreams is not only the story of a man becoming an artist, it’s a history of twentieth-century music.” — John Guare, Tony Award–winning playwrightArnold Steinhardt, for more than forty years an international soloist and the first violinist of the Guarneri String Quartet, brings warmth, wit, and fascinating insider details to the story of his ... Read more

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  • Brother Robert

    Growing Up with Robert Johnson

    by Annye C. Anderson ...
    A Rolling Stone-Kirkus Best Music Book of 2020“[Brother Robert} book does much to pull the blues master out of the fog of myth.”—Rolling StoneAn intimate memoir by blues legend Robert Johnson's stepsister, including new details about his family, music, influences, tragic death, and musical afterlifeThough Robert Johnson was only twenty-seven years young and relatively unknown at the time of... ... Read more

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  • The Original Blues

    The Emergence of the Blues in African American Vaudeville

    by Lynn Abbott, Doug Seroff ...
    Series series American Made Music Series
    Blues Book of the Year —Living BluesAssociation of Recorded Sound Collections Awards for ExcellenceBest Historical Research in Recorded Blues, Gospel, Soul, or R&B–Certificate of Merit (2018)2023 Blues Hall of Fame Inductee - Classic of Blues Literature categoryWith this volume, Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff complete their groundbreaking trilogy on the development of African American p... ... Read more

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  • 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

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