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Paul Weller - The Changing Man

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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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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
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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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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
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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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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." -
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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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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
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The British Blues Network

Adoption, Emulation, and Creativity

by Andrew Kellett ...

Beginning in the late 1950s, an influential cadre of young, white, mostly middle-class British men were consuming and appropriating African-American blues music, using blues tropes in their own music and creating a network of admirers and emulators that spanned the Atlantic. This cross-fertilization helped create a commercially successful rock idiom that gave rise to some of the most famous ... Read more

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Beginning in the late 1950s, an influential cadre of young, white, mostly middle-class British men were consuming and appropriating African-American blues music, using blues tropes in their own music and creating a network of admirers and emulators that spanned the Atlantic. This cross-fertilization helped create a commercially successful rock idiom that gave rise to some of the most famous
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La storia del Blues

by Roberto Caselli ...

Il blues è la voce dell’anima. Il blues è l’avventura del nero americano che cerca di scuotersi di dosso la schiavitù, che cerca una diversa identità. Il blues è la voce intima dello swing, del be bop, ma anche del jazzista free quando negli anni ’60 lo rinnegherà perché in esso vedrà gli spettri dei momenti più iniqui della sua storia. Perché possa manifestarsi non ha necessariamente bisogno ... Read more

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Il blues è la voce dell’anima. Il blues è l’avventura del nero americano che cerca di scuotersi di dosso la schiavitù, che cerca una diversa identità. Il blues è la voce intima dello swing, del be bop, ma anche del jazzista free quando negli anni ’60 lo rinnegherà perché in esso vedrà gli spettri dei momenti più iniqui della sua storia. Perché possa manifestarsi non ha necessariamente bisogno
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Crossing Traditions

American Popular Music in Local and Global Contexts

Edited by Babacar M'Baye, Alexander Charles Oliver Hall ...

In Crossing Traditions: American Popular Music in Local and Global Contexts, a wide range of scholarly contributions on the local and global significance of American popular music examines the connections between selected American blues, rock and roll, and hip-hop music and their equivalents from Senegal, Nigeria, England, India, and Mexico. Contributors show how American popular music promotes ... Read more

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In Crossing Traditions: American Popular Music in Local and Global Contexts, a wide range of scholarly contributions on the local and global significance of American popular music examines the connections between selected American blues, rock and roll, and hip-hop music and their equivalents from Senegal, Nigeria, England, India, and Mexico. Contributors show how American popular music promotes
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Rick Payne's Simply Blues Fingerstyle Guitar

by Rick Payne ...

Fingerstyle guitar is one of the most popular and satisfying ways of playing. Use the thumb and fingers to open up the range of sounds that the guitar can produce, and you're really flying. This is especially so when playing the blues. You can have a neat bass line while still picking away on a melody in the many different blues styles out there. I've been playing this style for many years and it ... Read more

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Fingerstyle guitar is one of the most popular and satisfying ways of playing. Use the thumb and fingers to open up the range of sounds that the guitar can produce, and you're really flying. This is especially so when playing the blues. You can have a neat bass line while still picking away on a melody in the many different blues styles out there. I've been playing this style for many years and it
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A Meeting at The Crossroads: Robert Johnson and The Devil

by Matt Frederick ...

The story of bluesman Robert Johnson and his deal with The Devil at the crossroads is one of the core myths at the heart of both blues and rock 'n' roll.In A Meeting At The Crossroads, Matt Frederick explores the history and meaning of the myth, from the Mississippi Delta to the crossroads gods of ancient times.A Meeting at the Crossroads' is the definitive book on a legend that dwells at the ... Read more

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The story of bluesman Robert Johnson and his deal with The Devil at the crossroads is one of the core myths at the heart of both blues and rock 'n' roll.In A Meeting At The Crossroads, Matt Frederick explores the history and meaning of the myth, from the Mississippi Delta to the crossroads gods of ancient times.A Meeting at the Crossroads' is the definitive book on a legend that dwells at the
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El río de la música

Del jazz y blues al rock. Desde Memphis a Nueva Orleans

by Miquel Jurado ...

Series series Música
Este libro es tanto una guía turística como una crónica periodística amena y convincente por las variadas historias de pueblos, ciudades y también de personajes que fueron los artífices de la música popular estadounidense que creció en las riveras del Misisipi. Desde el góspel y los espirituales negros pasando por el blues, el jazz, y rhythm and blues hasta el soul, el country o el rock.Un viaje ... Read more

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Este libro es tanto una guía turística como una crónica periodística amena y convincente por las variadas historias de pueblos, ciudades y también de personajes que fueron los artífices de la música popular estadounidense que creció en las riveras del Misisipi. Desde el góspel y los espirituales negros pasando por el blues, el jazz, y rhythm and blues hasta el soul, el country o el rock.Un viaje
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Led Zeppelin

All the Albums, All the Songs

by Martin Popoff ...

This expanded edition of Led Zeppelin: All the Albums, All the Songs breaks down one of the world's most prolific bands—track by track, album by album.Formed by the unlikely alliance of two ace London studio musicians and two bar-band bumpkins from the north, Led Zeppelin went on to create the template for the modern marauding rock 'n' roll band. Though Zeppelin is often described as "heavy," any ... Read more

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This expanded edition of Led Zeppelin: All the Albums, All the Songs breaks down one of the world's most prolific bands—track by track, album by album.Formed by the unlikely alliance of two ace London studio musicians and two bar-band bumpkins from the north, Led Zeppelin went on to create the template for the modern marauding rock 'n' roll band. Though Zeppelin is often described as "heavy," any
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Fingerpicking Guitar

by Rick McKeon ...

Have you ever wondered how the old blues guys got that hard-driving bluesy, ragtime sound? Well, it's all about a solid alternating bass with a syncopated melody on top. With this book and the online video lessons, I will teach you how to play like that! ... Read more

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Have you ever wondered how the old blues guys got that hard-driving bluesy, ragtime sound? Well, it's all about a solid alternating bass with a syncopated melody on top. With this book and the online video lessons, I will teach you how to play like that!
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Peetie Wheatstraw: The High Sheriff from Hell

The Roots of the Blues, #16

by Simon Godfrey ...

Series Book 16 - The Roots of the Blues
Before Robert Johnson's devil haunted the crossroads, Peetie Wheatstraw was already laughing with the Devil's daughter.Born William Bunch, the son of Arkansas sharecroppers, Wheatstraw arrived in East St. Louis in 1929 with little more than a self-taught knowledge of piano and guitar—and a shrewd understanding of how to make himself heard. Within a year, he had transformed himself into "Peetie ... Read more

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Before Robert Johnson's devil haunted the crossroads, Peetie Wheatstraw was already laughing with the Devil's daughter.Born William Bunch, the son of Arkansas sharecroppers, Wheatstraw arrived in East St. Louis in 1929 with little more than a self-taught knowledge of piano and guitar—and a shrewd understanding of how to make himself heard. Within a year, he had transformed himself into "Peetie
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Jimmy Reed: His Life and Unquiet Times

The Roots of the Blues, #4

by Simon Godfrey ...

Series Book 4 - The Roots of the Blues
He never sang louder than a man leaning against a doorway, and never played a riff he couldn't repeat in his sleep. Yet Jimmy Reed—Mississippi sharecropper's son, Chicago steelworker, self-taught bluesman—wrote more songs other people wanted to sing than almost anyone of his generation. "Baby What You Want Me to Do." "Big Boss Man." "Bright Lights, Big City." The Rolling Stones learned from him. ... Read more

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He never sang louder than a man leaning against a doorway, and never played a riff he couldn't repeat in his sleep. Yet Jimmy Reed—Mississippi sharecropper's son, Chicago steelworker, self-taught bluesman—wrote more songs other people wanted to sing than almost anyone of his generation. "Baby What You Want Me to Do." "Big Boss Man." "Bright Lights, Big City." The Rolling Stones learned from him.
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Mamie Smith: Crazy Blues

The Roots of the Blues, #6

by Simon Godfrey ...

Series Book 6 - The Roots of the Blues
CRAZY BLUESMamie Smith and the Three Minutes That Changed American MusicOn August 10, 1920, a vaudeville singer named Mamie Smith stepped in front of a recording horn in a cramped New York studio and sang a song called "Crazy Blues." She was not the artist any label had been looking for. She was, by one account, a last-minute stand-in for a white singer who never showed. What happened next ... Read more

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CRAZY BLUESMamie Smith and the Three Minutes That Changed American MusicOn August 10, 1920, a vaudeville singer named Mamie Smith stepped in front of a recording horn in a cramped New York studio and sang a song called "Crazy Blues." She was not the artist any label had been looking for. She was, by one account, a last-minute stand-in for a white singer who never showed. What happened next
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Albert King: The Velvet Bulldozer

The Roots of the Blues, #8

by Simon Godfrey ...

Series Book 8 - The Roots of the Blues
Albert King held his guitar wrong.Left-handed, he played a right-handed Flying V flipped upside down — never restrung, strings running backward, bends pulled in a direction no method book ever taught. It wasn't a style choice. It was what a poor kid in Depression-era Arkansas did when there was no money for the "correct" instrument and no one around to say otherwise.That accident became one of the ... Read more

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Albert King held his guitar wrong.Left-handed, he played a right-handed Flying V flipped upside down — never restrung, strings running backward, bends pulled in a direction no method book ever taught. It wasn't a style choice. It was what a poor kid in Depression-era Arkansas did when there was no money for the "correct" instrument and no one around to say otherwise.That accident became one of the
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Blues Soloing for Guitar, Volume 2: Levelling Up

Take Your Blues Soloing to a New Level

by James Shipway ...

Series Book 2 - Blues Soloing for Guitar
Volume 2 in the blues guitar book series gives you everything you need to know to play smokin’ blues guitar. Packed with blues guitar licks and solos, essential blues guitar techniques, scales, and chords demonstrating some more advanced blues guitar concepts. With video lessons, backing tracks and audio demo tracks included, Blues Soloing for Guitar, Volume 2 is the perfect blues guitar book for ... Read more

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Volume 2 in the blues guitar book series gives you everything you need to know to play smokin’ blues guitar. Packed with blues guitar licks and solos, essential blues guitar techniques, scales, and chords demonstrating some more advanced blues guitar concepts. With video lessons, backing tracks and audio demo tracks included, Blues Soloing for Guitar, Volume 2 is the perfect blues guitar book for
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African American Folksong and American Cultural Politics

The Lawrence Gellert Story

by Bruce M. Conforth ...

Series series American Folk Music and Musicians Series
In African American Folksong and American Cultural Politics: The Lawrence Gellert Story, scholar and musician Bruce Conforth tells the story of one of the most unusual collections of African American folk music ever amassed—and the remarkable story of the man who produced it: Lawrence Gellert. Compiled between the World Wars, Gellert's recordings were immediately adopted by the American Left as ... Read more

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In African American Folksong and American Cultural Politics: The Lawrence Gellert Story, scholar and musician Bruce Conforth tells the story of one of the most unusual collections of African American folk music ever amassed—and the remarkable story of the man who produced it: Lawrence Gellert. Compiled between the World Wars, Gellert's recordings were immediately adopted by the American Left as
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Black Soul, White Soul

The True Colors Of Blues

by Patrizia Barrera ...

Translated by Ivan Alexandra ...

A journey into the ancient world of Blues: how it was born, its origins, its path in the world. And then many stories and biographies about its protagonists, black and white, who helped create it and spread it to the general public. ... Read more

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A journey into the ancient world of Blues: how it was born, its origins, its path in the world. And then many stories and biographies about its protagonists, black and white, who helped create it and spread it to the general public.
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Bluegrass & Country Guitar for the Young Beginner

by William Bay ...

A very easy, step-by-step book/audio package teaching chords, backup licks and breaks, hammer-ons, pull-offs and other solo techniques. Written in notes and tablature. ... Read more

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A very easy, step-by-step book/audio package teaching chords, backup licks and breaks, hammer-ons, pull-offs and other solo techniques. Written in notes and tablature.
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Scales, Patterns, & Bending Exercises #2

Level 3, Complete Blues Harmonica Lesson Series

by David Barrett ...

This book covers the most common scales and modes used on the entire Lee Oskar Harmonica System. There are extensive exercises that help develop your agility and speed on the instrument. Includes access to online audio. ... Read more

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This book covers the most common scales and modes used on the entire Lee Oskar Harmonica System. There are extensive exercises that help develop your agility and speed on the instrument. Includes access to online audio.
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Charlie Musselwhite/Power Blues Harp

by Charlie Musselwhite, Phil Duncan ...

This book is designed for those who play diatonic or chromatic harmonica or both. Whether you are a beginner or intermediate player, each chapter presents a new and distinct learning experience. The chapters may be approached in sequence or in a haphazard fashion, without even completing a given chapter - as long as a particular sequences of exercises is completed within that chapter. All tunes ... Read more

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This book is designed for those who play diatonic or chromatic harmonica or both. Whether you are a beginner or intermediate player, each chapter presents a new and distinct learning experience. The chapters may be approached in sequence or in a haphazard fashion, without even completing a given chapter - as long as a particular sequences of exercises is completed within that chapter. All tunes
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Beale Street Dynasty

Sex, Song, and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis

by Preston Lauterbach ...

"All aspects of [Beale Street's] complex, fascinating history are told…with verve and vivid erudition." —Wall Street JournalBetween Reconstruction and Prohibition, Beale Street in Memphis thrived as a strip with a unique soul that reshaped American culture. Preston Lauterbach recounts the rise and fall of Beale Street through the life of the South’s first black millionaire, an ex-slave who built ... Read more

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"All aspects of [Beale Street's] complex, fascinating history are told…with verve and vivid erudition." —Wall Street JournalBetween Reconstruction and Prohibition, Beale Street in Memphis thrived as a strip with a unique soul that reshaped American culture. Preston Lauterbach recounts the rise and fall of Beale Street through the life of the South’s first black millionaire, an ex-slave who built
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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

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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
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