Early Blues: The First Stars of Blues Guitar by Obrecht, Jas

Early Blues: The First Stars of Blues Guitar

Winner of the 2016 Living Blues Award for Blues Book of the Year Since the early 1900s,...
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Author: Jas Obrecht
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Language: English
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Early Blues: The First Stars of Blues Guitar by Obrecht, Jas

Early Blues: The First Stars of Blues Guitar

CHF 37.63

Early Blues: The First Stars of Blues Guitar

CHF 37.63
Author: Jas Obrecht
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Winner of the 2016 Living Blues Award for Blues Book of the Year

Since the early 1900s, blues and the guitar have traveled side by side. This book tells the story of their pairing from the first reported sightings of blues musicians, to the rise of nationally known stars, to the onset of the Great Depression, when blues recording virtually came to a halt.

Like the best music documentaries, Early Blues: The First Stars of Blues Guitar interweaves musical history, quotes from celebrated musicians (B.B. King, John Lee Hooker, Ry Cooder, and Johnny Winter, to name a few), and a spellbinding array of life stories to illustrate the early days of blues guitar in rich and resounding detail. In these chapters, you'll meet Sylvester Weaver, who recorded the world's first guitar solos, and Paramount Records artists Papa Charlie Jackson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and Blind Blake, the "King of Ragtime Blues Guitar." Blind Willie McTell, the Southeast's superlative twelve-string guitar player, and Blind Willie Johnson, street-corner evangelist of sublime gospel blues, also get their due, as do Lonnie Johnson, the era's most influential blues guitarist; Mississippi John Hurt, with his gentle, guileless voice and syncopated fingerpicking style; and slide guitarist Tampa Red, "the Guitar Wizard."

Drawing on a deep archive of documents, photographs, record company ads, complete discographies, and up-to-date findings of leading researchers, this is the most comprehensive and complete account ever written of the early stars of blues guitar--an essential chapter in the history of American music.



Author: Jas Obrecht
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 11/09/2015
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.10h x 6.20w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780816698042


Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2016

About the Author

Jas Obrecht is an award-winning music journalist and former editor of Guitar Player magazine. He has written for Rolling Stone, Living Blues, Blues Revue, and many other publications. His books include Rollin' and Tumblin' The Postwar Blues Guitarists and Blues Guitar: The Men Who Made the Music.



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