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Ed Baldwin - SLIDING DELTA - A quest to find Mississippi John Hurt
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Dienstag, 23. Februar 2016
Lee Tanner, Lee Hildebrand - Images of the Blues
"Lee Tanner’s b&w cover photo of vintage B.B. King—eyes closed, lost in sweet reverie as he squeezes another gloriously blue note out of Lucille—sets the tone for this compelling visual journey. A companion piece to his Images of Jazz, this photo gallery benefits greatly from the firsthand observations, evaluations and insights of Lee Hildebrand, the respected Bay Area-based scribe who has written about blues, soul, jazz and gospel since 1968. Together the two Lees concocted an evocative portrait of this rich and mysterious music that was once described by one of its finest practitioners, Charles Brown, this way: “It’s hard to put into words. It’s just a certain kind of picture some people can paint.”
In an overview entitled “The Blues Century,” Hildebrand lays out a brisk yet credible primer for the novice, tracing the music from Southern field hollers and work songs to the classic blues singers and ragtime guitar pickers of the ‘20s,following its evolution to boogie woogie pianists and big band blues shouters of the ‘30s, the emergence of Chicago’s electrified blues scene in the late ‘40s, and the development of gospel blues, soul blues and rock ‘n’ roll in the ‘50s and ‘60s. Though they make token stabs at continuing the lineage through the ‘70s and ‘80s to the present with selected photos andcutlines of contemporary players, the bulk of this book is devoted to the pioneers of the genre, those heroic bluesmen and women whom the two Lees grew up idolizing.
Images of the Blues is neatly categorized into sections covering jazz, folk blues, rhythm and blues, rock ‘n’ roll, soul blues. The sprawling subject is further broken down by instrument with separate sections on guitarists, harmonica players, saxophonists and pianists. Individual portraits of iconic figures such as T-Bone Walker, B.B. and Albert King, Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Little Walter, Joe Turner and Bobby Bland help lend a more personal touch to this documentary work. And along the way, Hildebrand reveals some arcane bits of trivia and truth that even hardcore blues fans may not have been privvy to. For instance, I never knew that Lightnin’ Hopkins wrote and recorded “Happy Blues For John Glenn” in 1962 after watching the astronaut orbit the earth on his landlady’s television. Nor did I know that John Lee Hooker had filed suit against Tower Records for aiding and abetting a copyright infringement, eventually settling out-of-court with the national chain. When Hildebrand reports that a drunken Little Walter, in the last dark years of his brilliant career, would wave a loaded pistol on stage, you get the sense that Lee was there in the audience, ducking for cover. These kind of tidbits and insights add spice to the project.
But we come away from this book with Tanner’s images—and those he gathered from several colleagues—burned into our brains. Those faces of rapture and transcendant joy, whether it’s Big Joe Turner or Jimmy Rushing dealing at the mic, Albert Collins walking through the crowd with ax in hand, Howlin’ Wolf growling, B.B. King grimacing, Willie Dixon grinning, Aretha Franklin wailing, are what make this book soar and sing." (Review by Bill Milkowski)
Freitag, 29. Januar 2016
Dick Weissman - Talkin` Bout A Revolution - Music and Social Change in America
Talkin' 'Bout a Revolution is a comprehensive guide to the relationship between American music and politics. Music expert Dick Weissman opens with the dawn of American history, then moves to the book's key focus: 20th-century music songs by and about Native Americans, African-Americans, women, Spanish-speaking groups, and more. Unprecedented in its approach, the book offers a multidisciplinary discussion that is broad and diverse, and illuminates how social events impact music as well as how music impacts social events. Weissman delves deep, covering everything from current Native American music to "music of hate" racist and neo-Nazi music to the music of the Gulf wars, union songs, patriotic and antiwar songs, and beyond. A powerful tool for professors teaching classes about politics and music and a stimulating, accessible read for all kinds of appreciators, from casual music fans to social science lovers and devout music history buffs.
David A. Jasen - Beale Street and Other Classic Blues - 38 Works 1901-1921
This treasury of classic blues includes 38 songs and instrumental pieces from the first two decades of the twentieth century the era that witnessed the birth and initial popularity of the blues. Written by such masters as the legendary W. C. Handy, "Jelly Roll" Morton, and the prolific Luckeyth ("Lucky") Roberts, this bountiful collection includes: Beale Street, The St. Louis Blues, The Hesitating Blues, The Memphis Blues, Joe Turner Blues, The Jelly Roll Blues, The Down Home Blues, Railroad Blues, Crazy Blues, If You Don't Believe I Love You, The Farmyard Blues, I'm Crazy 'Bout Your Lovin', Long Gone, 99 Blues, and 24 other classics of the era.
Reproduced directly from rare sheet music (including the original covers), this collection will thrill both amateur and professional players and all lovers of the great popular music of yesteryear."
Sarah Bryan, April and Lance Ledbetter - NEVER A PAL LIKE MOTHER - Vintage Songs & Photographs O The One Who`s Always True
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Description: 96 page hardback photo book with 2 CDs, Essay by Sarah Bryan; Foreword by Rosanne Cash, 65 sepia photographs
The CDs feature 40 vintage recordings from 1927-1956.
Publication Date: May 10, 2011
Compiled by April and Lance Ledbetter
“We can feel our American past here: how we lived, how hard we worked, how we were a nation of travelers and wanderers, how we held fast to our faith, how great our losses were, how quickly death came, and how often our mothers were the rock and the lighthouse, the home inside our hearts. These songs could never be written in the age of jet travel, therapy, delayed adolescence, the internet, nor could they survive current popular ideas of human psychology. They are pristine and deeply wrought sonic images, unfiltered through modern expectations, and are all the more refreshing and thrilling for being so. Those of us who treasure American roots music are listening to the very center of its essence in this anthology: a nearly century-old collection of songs about the most important person in the entire lexicon.” — Rosanne Cash, from the introduction to Never a Pal Like Mother
Samstag, 16. Januar 2016
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