Arts / Musique / Blues

Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: A Musical Journey

de Peter Guralnick, Robert Santelli & Holly George-Warren

A companion to the groundbreaking PBS documentary series, this volume is a unique and timeless celebration of the blues, from writers and artists as esteemed and revered as the music that moved them.

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African American Folksong and American Cultural Politics: The Lawrence Gellert Story

de Bruce M. Conforth

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...

Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock 'n' Roll

de Larry Birnbaum

An essential work for rock fans and scholars, Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock ‘n’ Roll surveys the origins of rock ’n’ roll from the minstrel era to the emergence of Bill Haley and Elvis Presley....

Feel Like Going Home: Portraits in Blues and Rock 'n' Roll

de Peter Guralnick

This vivid celebration of blues and early rock 'n' roll includes some of the first and most illuminating profiles of such blues masters as Muddy Waters, Skip James, and Howlin' Wolf; excursions into the blues-based...

Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom

de Peter Guralnick

This masterful exploration of American roots music--country, rockabilly, and the blues--spotlights the artists who created a distinctly American sound, including Ernest Tubb, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Elvis Presley,...

Lost Highway: Journeys and Arrivals of American Musicians

de Peter Guralnick

This masterful exploration of American roots music--country, rockabilly, and the blues--spotlights the artists who created a distinctly American sound, including Ernest Tubb, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Elvis Presley,...

Ramblin' on My Mind: New Perspectives on the Blues

de David Evans

This compilation of essays takes the study of the blues to a welcome new level. Distinguished scholars and well-established writers from such diverse backgrounds as musicology, anthropology, musicianship, and...

Barrelhouse Words: A Blues Dialect Dictionary

de Stephen Calt

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...

The Story of Boogie-Woogie: A Left Hand Like God

de Peter J. Silvester

The Story of Boogie-Woogie presents a comprehensive history of boogie-woogie from the early 20th century to the present, describing the style's appearance and development, its offshoots, and the pianists who...

Acoustic Blues Guitar Styles

de Larry Sandberg

Acoustic Blues Guitar Styles is an introduction to fingerstyle acoustic blues guitar, the style made popular by Robert Johnson, Bill Broonzy, and Mance Lipscomb. Following the success of the popular Acoustic...

The Hero And the Blues

de Albert Murray

I'd Rather Be the Devil: Skip James and the Blues

de Stephen Calt

Providing a clear look into the life of one of the greatest Mississippi bluesmen, this is the first biography of the late Skip James, perhaps the most creative and idiosyncratic of all blues musicians. His...

Lightnin' Hopkins: His Life and Blues

de Alan Govenar

Based on scores of interviews with the artist’s relatives, friends, lovers, producers, accompanists, managers, and fans, this brilliant biography reveals a man of many layers and contradictions. Following...

Hand Me My Travelin' Shoes: In Search of Blind Willie McTell

de Michael Gray

Evoking the turbulent past of the subject’s time and place, this odyssey to rural Georgia peels back the many layers of Blind Willie McTell’s compelling, occasionally shocking, but ultimately uplifting...

The World Don't Owe Me Nothing: The Life and Times of Delta Bluesman Honeyboy Edwards

de David Honeyboy Honeyboy Edwards

This vivid oral snapshot of an America that planted the blues is full of rhythmic grace. From the son of a sharecropper to an itinerant bluesman, Honeyboy’s stories of good friends Charlie Patton, Big Walter...

When I Left Home: My Story

de Buddy Guy & David Ritz

The autobiography of blues legend Buddy Guy, coauthored by bestselling collaborator David Ritz

Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues

de Elijah Wald

The life of blues legend Robert Johnson becomes the centerpiece for this innovative look at what many consider to be America's deepest and most influential music genre. Pivotal are the questions surrounding...

Chianti: The Land, the People and the Wine

de Raymond Flower

Raymond Flower brings the enchanting history of the secluded Italian region Chianti to vivid life. Using meticulous research, Flower presents the engrossing tales of the Etruscans, the Romans, the Lombards,...

I'm Feeling the Blues Right Now

de Stephen A. King

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...

Africa and the Blues

de Gerhard Kubik

In 1969 Gerhard Kubik chanced to encounter a Mozambican labor migrant, a miner in Transvaal, South Africa, tapping a cipendani, a mouth-resonated musical bow. A comparable instrument was seen in the hands of...