Blues category: 910 books
Guide to the Blues,Janis Joplin, Billie Holiday, Big Mama Thornton, Little Miss Cornshucks, Bessie Smith, T-Bone Walker, Jimmy Rushing Blues dance,
Blues Singer: List of blues musicians, blues albums, films about blues music,Blues guitar playing, British blues musicians
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Blues Singer: List of blues musicians, blues albums, films about blues music,Blues guitar playing, British blues musicians, Guide to the Blues,Janis Joplin, Billie Holiday, Big Mama Thornton, Little Miss Cornshucks, Bessie Smith, T-Bone Walker, Jimmy Rushing, Blues dance,
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Your Personal Book of Solo Fingerstyle Blues Guitar 1 : Fundamental
(suitable for electric & acoustic guitar)
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
This book is the fundamental chapter of solo fingerstyle blues guitar. This first book introduces basic elements of Blues music, specifically on chord, scale, rhythm, expressions and etc to do simple practices and trials. And integrated melodic demo practices are designed in a later section, allowing...
Your Personal Book of Solo Fingerstyle Blues Guitar 2 : Advanced & Improvisation
(suitable for electric & acoustic guitar)
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
This book TWO is a separate enhancement on "Your Personal Book of Solo Fingerstyle Blues Guitar 1 : Fundamental".
Book TWO is comprised of 2 big chapters.
Chapter TWO includes different variations in rhythmic styles, fret positions of chord and changes in applications, integrated...
by Stefan Grossman
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1973
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1973
The shellac of the 20's, 30's and 40's caught the fleeting moment, the spirit of the times; the raunchy ragtime, barrelhouse boogie and the country blues. Some of those records will never be replaced. Some, never will be heard again. Many of those songs are here in printed form for the first time,...
by Wise Publications
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
Piano Playbook: Blues & Soul includes superb new piano arrangements of 45 blues and soul classics, complete with vocal line and guitar chords, designed for intermediate to advanced players.
These songs have been chosen to reflect the moods at the heart each genre. This allows Robert Johnson...
by Francesco Piccolo
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Il libro prende in rassegna le strutture del blues e come queste si sono evolute a partire dagli inizi del secolo scorso fino ai giorni nostri.
Viene prima analizzata la progressione standard, così come definita nella sua forma primordiale del Country Blues, cristallizzatasi nel periodo del Blues...
Blues Traveling
The Holy Sites of Delta Blues, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2008
At a crossroads in the Mississippi Delta, Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the Devil so that he could become a guitar virtuoso and King of the Delta Blues. Blues Traveling: The Holy Sites of Delta Blues will tell you where that legendary deal was supposed to have been made and guide...
I'm Feeling the Blues Right Now
Blues Tourism in the Mississippi Delta
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
In I'm Feeling the Blues Right Now: Blues Tourism and the Mississippi Delta, Stephen A. King reveals the strategies used by blues promoters and organizers in Mississippi, both African American and white, local and state, to attract the attention of tourists. In the process, he reveals how promotional...
Nobody Knows Where the Blues Come From
Lyrics and History
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Musicians and music scholars rightly focus on the sounds of the blues and the colorful life stories of blues performers. Equally important and, until now, inadequately studied are the lyrics. The international contributors to Nobody Knows Where the Blues Come From explore this aspect of the blues...
Broadcasting the Blues
Black Blues in the Segregation Era
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Broadcasting the Blues: Black Blues in the Segregation Era is based on Paul Oliver's award-winning radio broadcasts from the BBC that were created over several decades. It traces the social history of the blues in America, from its birth in the rural South through the heyday of sound recordings. Noted...
by James E. Perone
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
Unlike other books on the blues, which tend to focus on musician biographies, Listen to the Blues! devotes time to the compositions, recordings, and musical legacies of blues musicians from the early 20th century to the present. Although the author references musical structure, harmony, form, and...
Early Blues
The First Stars of Blues Guitar
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
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.
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by Francesco Piccolo
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
The book reviews the blues structures and how these have evolved from the beginning of the last century to present day.
The book first analyzes the standard progression. This progression, as defined in its primordial form of the Country Blues, crystallized in the Classic Blues period and was used...
by Edward Komara, Greg Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Search the Internet for the 100 best songs or best albums. Dozens of lists will appear from aficionados to major music personalities. But what if you not only love listening to the blues or country music or jazz or rock, you love reading about it, too. How do you separate what matters from what doesn’t...