Blues

Hur och när bluesen kom till Sverige är det första heltäckande verk som skrivits om detta ämne. Inledningsvis beskrivs vad som kännetecknar blues, dess ursprung, historia och spridning. De första besöken av afroamerikanska musiker och deras påverk...

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Tusentals gitarrister har lärt sig spela ur KG Johanssons ELGITARR ROCK OCH BLUES under mer än trettio år. Här är en efterlängtad ny version, med moderniserat låtval, nya fräscha inspelningar och dessutom nya-elgitarr.se en stor webbsida med tekni...

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The saying goes that "God only gives you what you can handle." Well God didn't grow up in my atheist, Wiccan, fame-laden, oversexed, teetotalling, drug-free, cloistered, chaotic, non-communicative, workaholic, feral-feeling house.' For M...

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Gary Moore delighted entire generations with his passionate guitar playing, from the driving rock of Thin Lizzy in the 1970s to his explorations in subsequent decades of jazz fusion, heavy metal, hard rock, blues rock, and more. Throughout that ti...

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This masterful explorationof 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, Merle Haggard, and Sleepy La...

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A gorgeous, inimitable singer and songwriter, Nina Simone (1933-2003) changed the face of both music and race relations in America. She struck a chord with bluesy jazz ballads like "Put a Little Sugar in My Bowl" and powerful protest son...

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The Definitive Jazz & Blues Encyclopedia, now fully updated from the illustrated edition, is the ultimate guide to two musical styles that have fundamentally influenced popular music. Divided into chapters, each covering a different era, the b...

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Paperback edition of this history of Stax Records, a character-driven story of racial integration, black power, economic independence, music and musicians from Otis Redding to Booker T., a small independent company's struggle to survive, and of Me...

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A definitive assessment of the life and work of jazz musician John Coltrane, based on new interviews with his colleagues and never-before-published material.

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This odyssey across America's musical heartland covers the history of blues through candid conversations with bluesmen and vivid, firsthand accounts of the landscape where their music was born.

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In this first of a groundbreaking multivolume set, THE MCCARTNEY LEGACY, VOL 1: 1969-73 captures the life of Paul McCartney in the years immediately following the dissolution of the Beatles, a period in which McCartney recreated himself as both a ...

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A new biography of the beloved but mysterious Blind Lemon Jefferson, famous blues musician. Born in 1897, Jefferson was a blind street musician who played his guitar at the corner of Elm Street and Central Avenue in the Deep Ellum area of Dallas, ...

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Miles: The Autobiography, like the man himself, holds nothing back. He talks about his battles against drugs and racism, and discusses the many women in his life. But above all, Miles talks about music and musicians, including the legends he has p...

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EIncurable BluesE explores the life and genius of Hubert Sumlin a highly influential guitarist who has survived cancer alcoholism and personal and professional tribulations to testify to the classic days of Chicago blues. Sumlin's incendiary guita...

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All 10 tunes from SRV and Double Trouble's monumental first album, transcribed in tab and notation: Dirty Pool * I Wanna Testify * I'm Cryin' * Lenny * Love Struck Baby * Mary Had a Little Lamb * Pride and Joy * Rude Mood * Tell Me * Texas Flood.

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For over three decades R. Crumb has shocked, entertained, titillated and challenged the imaginations (and the inhibitions) of comics fans the world over. The acknowledged father of "underground comix," Crumb is the single greatest influe...

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Out of the Blue: Life on the Road with Muddy Waters begins with a moment lifted from a young musicians dreams. Brian Bisesi, a guitarist barely out of his teens, is invited on stage to fill in for a missing member of the band backing blues legend ...

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Booker "Bukka" White (19051977) was one of the most important blues musicians of the twentieth century. The twelve songs he recorded in Chicago in 1940 are considered to be among the finest in country blues. In The Life and Music of Book...

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The drama of In Cold Blood meets the stylings of a Coen brothers film in this long-lost manuscript from musicologist Mack McCormick, whose research on blues icon Robert Johnson's mysterious life and death became as much of a myth as the musican hi...

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Hound Dog Taylor made guitars howl and hips shake. A founding father of lo-fi blues rockthat gritty, stripped-down sound played on cheap guitars with no bassTaylor and his band The HouseRockers played loud, wild gut-bucket boogie that was raw and ...

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Sure to strike a chord with guitarists and blues fans, this authoritative and photo-filled volume includes over 150 of the genres greatest players and performers from the prewar era to present. From blues pioneers like Robert Johnson, Son House, B...

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From Sunday Times bestselling author Lesley-Ann Jones Scandalous affairs and public divorce. Addiction and fiery passion. And of course, the iconic song writing... Christine McVie - born Christine Perfect - was the quintessentially English rock st...

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Guitarist Michael Bloomfield shot to stardom in the '60s with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band Bob Dylan the Electric Flag and on Al Kooper's Super Session. His story is told in the words of his brother musicians such as B.B. King produce...

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This text reveals how musicians, both individually and collectively, learn to improvise. It aims to illuminate the distinctive creative processes that comprise improvisation. Chronicling leading musicians from their first encounters with jazz to t...

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In this classic account of the new black music of the 1960s and 70s, celebrated photographer and jazz historian Val Wilmer tells the story of how a generation of revolutionary musicians established black music as the true vanguard of American cult...

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An updated new edition of Ted Gioia's acclaimed compendium of jazz standards, featuring 15 additional selections, hundreds of additional recommended tracks, and enhancements and additions on almost every page. Since the first edition of The Jazz S...

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Master Modern Blues Guitar Rhythm and Soloing - With Robben Ford Robben Ford is one of the world's most in demand modern blues guitarists. From his work with Miles Davis, to the Yellowjackets, Joni Mitchell, George Harrison and Larry Carlton, the ...

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'A masterpiece, as fresh and shocking as if it were written yesterday' Craig Brown "I've been told that no one sings the word 'hunger' like I do. Or the word 'love'." Lady Sings the Blues is the inimita...

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