Walking a Blues Road: A Blues Reader 1956-2004 - Softcover

Charters, Samuel B.

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9780714531076: Walking a Blues Road: A Blues Reader 1956-2004

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ISBN 10: 0714531073 ISBN 13: 9780714531076

Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 2004

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Samuel Charters belongs to a small group of writers about music whose work has transformed their -subject--without his discoveries, insights and interventions, the history of blues over the past 50 years would have been very different. This book is a -collection of his writings from 1954 to 2004.

Samuel Charters walks us from Houston, Texas alongside "Lightnin'" Hopkins and "Thunder" Smith to Memphis and Willie B, and on to St. Louis. The book includes chapters from his writing on the poetry of the blues and on country music.

Samuel Charters has written several books on the blues, as well as novels and memoirs. Many of his original recordings of artists who never reached a recording studio are available on CD.

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Synopsis:

Blues writing from the 1950s to 2000s - jazz characters from a hidden world. A blues readers written by Samuel Charters to illustrate his recordings of famous and not so well known blues artistes. From Muddy Waters and Otis Spam in the 1960s to Zydeco and Good Rockin' Dopsie in the 1970s,Charters walks us from Houston Texas, alongside "Lightnin'" Hopkins and "Thunder" Smith, to Memphis, and Willie B, and on to Saint Louis. The book includes chapters from his writing on the poetry of the Blues and on Country music, which many fans of Charters' writing will be glad to see back in print. Charters belongs to a small group of writers about music whose work has transformed their subject - without his discoveries, insights and interventions, the history of the blues over the past fifty years would have been very different. His book, The Country Blues, opened up the previously unknown world of pre-war blues. At the time of its first publication in 1959, few black singers were known of except for Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong. In his new book, illustrated with his own photographs, rewritten sleeve notes are printed alongside new pieces on his recordings of rarely heard jazz artistes.

About the Author:

Now in his seventies, Sam Charters is a jazz expert with over 11 books on jazz to his name. His 1959 book The Country Blues was the first serious examination of this seedbed of virtually all American music. He followed this book with The Legacy of the Blues and The Roots of the Blues (all Marion Boyars publications).

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