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1) Bluesman
Author
Language
English
Description
It is the summer of 1967 and Leo Suther is about to turn eighteen. This is the summer that everyone has something to teach Leo. His father warns him that "life can turn on a dime." Allie, his girlfriend, wants to teach him about love. Her father, the local communist and civil rights organizer, lectures him on politics and carpentry. And Ryder, a family friend, wants to show Leo the magic of the harmonica--harp of the blues.
However, when Leo's life...
4) Blues story
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col., some b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of the birth and evolution of blues music in America. Includes interviews, vintage clips and rare footage, along with the music of many of the legends of blues music who are long gone.
6) Labyrinth
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
183 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"A blues singer, Boratin, attempts suicide by jumping off the Bosphorus Bridge, but opens his eyes in the hospital. He has lost his memory, and can't recall why he wished to end his life. He remembers only things that are unrelated to himself, but confuses their timing. He knows that the Ottoman Empire fell, and that the last sultan died, but has no idea when. His mind falters when remembering civilizations, while life, like a labyrinth, leads him...
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Da Capo Press ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 280 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A great blues guitarist chronicles his eventful life, from his modest upbringing in rural Louisiana to his rise to prominence in the Chicago blues scene to his becoming a lasting influence on famous musicians.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The first definitive biography of guitar legend Stevie Ray Vaughan, with an Epilogue by Jimmie Vaughan, Foreword by drummer Chris Layton, and Aterword by bassist Tommy Shannon. Despite the cinematic scope of Vaughan's life and death, there has never been a truly proper accounting of his story--until now.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
One hundred years ago, the blues was discovered as a musical form. To celebrate, more than 50 musicians gathered in New York City for a benefit concert.
Publisher
Shanachie Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This ground breaking television series features authentic traditional music played in the atmosphere of an informal back porch picking party. "Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee": Sonny and Brownie were one of the most enduring blues acts of the post-war era, forming an association that was to last for three decades. "Mississippi John Hurt, Hedy West and Paul Cadwell": Superb guitar playing and gentle, expressive voice has made Mississippi John one of...
Author
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
©1996.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xii, 336 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Riley B. King grew up amidst the cotton farms of Mississippi, picking in the fields. At age 21 he wrecked a tractor and took it as a sign that a brighter future awaited him as a musician in Memphis. The rest is history. Recounting his days as a disk jockey and pioneering bluesman on the rhythm and blues circuit, B.B. dramatizes his whirlwind adventures, from the Memphis of the forties to the Moscow of the nineties, in a voice that is both raw and...
17) Killer Diller
Publisher
Marvista Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An ex-con guitar player meets an autistic savant piano player and together, along with a bunch of halfway-house residents, they form the red-hot Killer Diller Blues Band.
18) The blues parade
Author
Publisher
Abrhamson Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
34 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"With the rollin', rhymin' spirit of 1,000 songs. The Blues Parade descends from the sky and down onto Main Street, leading Pork Chop and One-Nose Willie on a journey of discovery from the Mighty Tribes of Africa to the British Invasion and beyond in a celebration of the legends, lore & language of the music that rose from the cottonfields to become America's most resonant artform."--Back cover.
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