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Canadian Power Trio Monkey Junk with excellent second album....
 A review by a 2004 Blues Traveler, June 29, 2004 By A Customer This review is from: Blues Traveling: The Holy Sites of Delta Blues (Paperback) I highly recommend this book for anybody considering a Blues trip into the Delta. It is the best available resource on the market. Looking at its competitors, they all miss the mark due to either outdated, incomplete, or just plain incorrect information. I have just completed a Delta blues trip and read the book after I returned. Having actually done such a trip provides a very authoritative vantage point from which to judge any such work.......... www.amazon.com | This fascinating compendium explains the most unusual, obscure, and curious words and expressions from vintage blues music. Utilizing both documentary evidence and invaluable interviews with a number of now-deceased musicians from the 1920s and '30s, blues scholar Stephen Calt unravels the nuances of more than twelve hundred idioms and proper or place names found on oft-overlooked "race records" recorded between 1923 and 1949. | RAMBLIN' ON MY MIND: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE BLUES - Edited by David Evans (University of Illinois Press)A collection of Essays on Blues Music using statistics, textural analysis, critical theory etc etc.....an academic perspective. Living Blues magazine www.livingblues.com | The Story Of KING RECORDS, with artists such as Lonnie Johnson, Ivory Joe Hunter, James Brown.. | Voices Of The Mississippi Blues, includes a CD/DVD featurung original music and film. | Cartwright takes you on a quixotic trek down the dirt roads of American music. He crisscrosses the country along Route 66, down Highway 61, from Sun to Stax studios, lowdown Mississippi juke joints to fear-charged East LA's narco-corridos, Native American powwows to forlorn and dusty Tex-Mex roadhouses. www.amazon.com |
Texas Blues: The Rise Of A Contemporay Sound. | Published in the late 1940s, this book had to be a huge influence on the Beat Generation writers - and yet, that comes as a surprise because who's heard of this man or his book? Presented here is the life of Mezz Mezzrow - "the guy, behind the guy" in the Jazz world. Drug addict, drug pusher, and good friends with - and musical director of - Louis Armstrong, Mezz tells the story behind the scenes of the jazz explosion of the 20s and beyond. Written in Harlem vernacular, you don't need to understand jive to dig his story, you can simply dig the language itself; however, if you're not a jazz aficionado, the many people/musicians Mezz writes about will be completely foreign and seem somewhat insignificant to the plot-line - but how can one equate one's life with a plot-line anyway? All in all, a good document of the counterculture of the 20s. www.amazon.com | Both black history and music libraries will find compelling this true story of a black musical servant in slavery times, THE BALLAD OF BLIND TOM: AMERICA'S LOST MUSICAL GENIUS. Tom was born into slavery but was an international celebrity in New York when he died in 1908. His rise to fame and transition from a blind slave to a musical prodigy makes for a compelling story suitable for any music history collection. www.amazon.com | At times a disturbing book whch traces the influence of Skip James on many white blues guitarists...... | | Excellent warts and all book on the blues legend endorsed by the man himself. Fascinating! |
Read and allow Bill Minutaglio to take you along those streets and alleys in In Search of the Blues: A Journey to the Soul of Black Texas and you will see what few have seen and, more importantly, what this book will not allow to be forgotten. Courtesy Amazon | |||||