Genres & Styles - Blues
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The Story of the Blues in 50 Songs
$49.99 Add to cartThe Story of the Blues in 50 Songs traces the evolution of the blues and its influence on modern music. Highlighting 50 key recordings, the book explores the genre’s roots in Black American culture an… [more below]
- Author: Evans, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 28 2026
- ISBN10: 076437124X
- Language: English
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Out of the Blue: Life on the Road with Muddy Waters
$50.00 Add to cartOut of the Blue: Life on the Road with Muddy Waters begins with a moment lifted from a young musician’s dreams. Brian Bisesi, a guitarist barely out of his teens, is invited on stage to fill in for a … [more below]
- Series: American Made Music
- Author: Bisesi, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: March 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1496849841
- Language: English
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The Ultimate Book of Blues Guitar Legends: The Players and Guitars That Shaped the Music
$40.00 Read moreSure to strike a chord with guitarists and blues fans, this authoritative and photo-filled volume includes over 150 of the genre’s greatest players and performers from the prewar era to present.
From- Author: Prown, Pete
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0760387567
- Language: English
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Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music
$21.99 Read moreIn this “expertly researched, elegantly written, dispassionate yet thoughtful history” (Gary Giddins), award-winning author Ted Gioia gives us “the rare combination of a tome that is both deeply infor… [more below]
- Author: Gioia, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0393337502
- Language: English
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Blues from Laurel Canyon: My Life as a Bluesman
$28.99 Add to cartWith an incredible blues career spanning over sixty years, which rightly earning him the title “The Godfather of British Blues,” John shares his experiences and encounters in what will be a must read
- Author: Mayall, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1785581783
- Language: English
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Chasing the Blues: A Traveler’s Guide to America’s Music
$39.50 Add to cartA fusion of history, culture, and song in a practical travel guide for music lovers who want to understand more of what helped shape what they are seeing, hearing, and experiencing as they tour the cr
- Author: Matyas, Josephine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1493060600
- Language: English
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Blues Guitar for Dummies
$29.99 Add to cartWant to become the coolest possible version of yourself?
Time to jump into learning the blues guitar. Even if you don’t read music, Blues Guitar For Dummies lets you pick up the fundamentals and start
- Author: Chappell, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1119695635
- Language: English
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Big Boss Man: The Life and Music of Bluesman Jimmy Reed
$34.48 Add to cartBIG BOSS MAN THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF BLUESMAN JIMMY REED
- Author: Romano, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0879308788
- Language: English
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Mississippi John Hurt: His Life, His Times, His Blues
$30.00 Add to cartWinner, Best History, 2012 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research
When Mississippi John Hurt (1892-1966) was “rediscovered” by blues re
- Series: American Made Music
- Author: Ratcliffe, Philip R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: March 16 2018
- ISBN10: 1496818350
- Language: English
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Charley Patton: Expanded Edition
$12.95 Read moreThe Father of the Delta Blues, Charley Patton (1891-1934) was born and raised around Mississippi’s cotton plantations. During the 1920s, he was the first of the region’s great stars, performing for pa… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Music: Folk Songs
- Author: Fahey, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 12 2020
- ISBN10: 486843440
- Language: English
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The Blues: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartPraised as “suave, soulful, ebullient” (Tom Waits) and “a meticulous researcher, a graceful writer, and a committed contrarian” (New York Times Book Review), Elijah Wald is one of the leading popular … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Wald, Elijah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: August 05 2010
- ISBN10: 0195398939
- Language: English
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The History of the Blues: The Roots, the Music, the People
$24.99 Add to cartFrancis Davis’s The History of the Blues is a groundbreaking rethinking of the blues that fearlessly examines how race relations have altered perceptions of the music. Tracing its origins from the Mis… [more below]
- Author: Davis, Francis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 04 2003
- ISBN10: 0306812967
- Language: English
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Gary Moore: The Official Biography
$24.95 Read more“Gary Moore is definitely in my list of top five guitar influences, right up there with Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Michael Schenker. He just blew me away from the first time
- Author: Shapiro, Harry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1911036971
- Language: English
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Rollin’ and Tumblin’: The Postwar Blues Guitarists
$32.98 Add to cartROLLIN’ AND TUMBLIN’ – THE POSTWAR BLUES GUITARISTS
- Author: Obrecht, Jas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 466
- Publish Date: July 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0879306130
- Language: English
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The Blues: A Visual History: 100 Years of Music That Changed the World
$39.99 Add to cartCharting the history of the blues from its rural roots in the American South and focusing on the key musicians and singers who brought it recognition worldwide, The Blues: A Visual History is a unique… [more below]
- Author: Evans, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 28 2020
- ISBN10: 0764359754
- Language: English
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R. Crumb’s Heroes of Blues, Jazz & Country [With CD Audio]
$21.95 Add to cart“Gorgeous. One of the music–and art–books of the year.” (The Guardian)
A characteristically idiosyncratic tribute by an underground icon to the musical innovators who helped inspire him, R. Crumb’s- Author: Crumb, R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0810930862
- Language: English
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The Land Where the Blues Began
$50.98 Read moreWinner of a National Book Critics Circle award, a rollicking and unforgettable memoir by the man who helped bring the music of the blues into the mainstream
“Without Lomax it’s possible that there woul
- Author: Lomax, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: November 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1565847393
- Language: English
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Arhoolie Records Down Home Music: The Stories and Photographs of Chris Strachwitz
$40.00 Add to cartA visual storytelling celebration of American roots music in its rich variety through unseen and newly scanned photographs by the founder of the legendary Arhoolie Records.
Founded in 1960 by Chris St- Author: Selvin, Joel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1797222287
- Language: English
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Deep Inside the Blues: Photographs and Interviews
$45.00 Add to cartDeep Inside the Blues collects thirty-four of Margo Cooper’s interviews with blues artists and is illustrated with over 160 of her photographs, many published here for the first time. For thirty years… [more below]
- Series: American Made Music
- Author: Cooper, Margo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1496847415
- Language: English
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