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2) 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...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"When legendary R&B artist Korey Fields spots Enchanted Jones at an audition, her dreams of being a famous singer take flight. Until Enchanted wakes up with blood on her hands and zero memory of the previous night. Who killed Korey Fields? Before there was a dead body, Enchanted's dreams had turned into a nightmare. Because behind Korey's charm and star power was a controlling dark side. Now he's dead, the police are at the door, and all signs point...
4) Painted lady
Publisher
WGBH
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 204 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After a failed suicide attempt Maggie Sheridan is taken in by Sir Charles Stafford and his son Sebastian.
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.
Author
Publisher
Amistad
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxvi, 342 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
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 why Johnson was ignored by the core black audience of his time yet now celebrated as the greatest figure in blues history. Trying to separate myth from reality, biographer Elijah Wald studies the blues from the inside -- not only examining recordings...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An intimate, revealing look at one artist's journey from self-censorship to full expression As one of the most celebrated musicians of our time, Alicia Keys has enraptured the nation with her heartfelt lyrics, extraordinary vocal range, and soul-stirring piano compositions. Yet away from the spotlight, Alicia has grappled with private heartache-over the challenging and complex relationship with her father, the people-pleasing nature that characterized...
8) RL's dream
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
267 p. : port. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lazarus is an extremely religious man who is broken hearted after his wife leaves him for his own brother. Rae is the town slut, apparently afflicted with the "disease" of uncontrollable nymphomania. After a night of hard partying and sleeping around, Rae, is beaten up and left by the roadside near Lazarus' house. Lazarus takes her in and chains her to his radiator while trying to "cure" her insatiability. Eventually, the two become friends and help...
11) Genghis blues
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of a Paul Pena, a blind American blues musician, and his trek to Tuva to live among its inhabitants and compete in their triennial khoomei (throat singing) contest. He is accompanied by a documentary film team and Tuvinian throat singer Kongar-ol Ondar.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 482 pages : [16] pages of plates, illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"King of the Blues presents the vibrant life and times of a trailblazing giant. Witness to dark prejudice and lynching in his youth, B.B. performed incessantly (some 15,000 concerts in ninety countries over nearly sixty years)-in some real way his means of escaping his past. Several of his concerts, including landmark gigs at Bill Graham's Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco and Chicago's Cook County Jail, endure in legend to this day. His career...
13) 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.
14) Dirty South
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
291 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
15) 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.
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.
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
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...
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