Highway 61: Crossroads on the Blues Highway - Softcover

Derek Bright

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0752489240 ISBN 13: 9780752489247

Publisher: The History Press Ltd, 2014

Synopsis

Highway 61 the legendary Blues Highway and route taken by modern-day blues pilgrims on their journey south into the Mississippi Delta. Littered with iconic place names and immortalised in the songs of the Deep South, the great river road was taken by countless African Americans in search of the promise of work in the northern cities and escape from the legacy of slavery and hardship of the rural south. Highway 61 draws on the work of the early musicologists looking for an authentic delta folk music in the 1930s, to the campaigns of the Popular Front in the 40s as it sought a musical form arising from the struggles of a newly emerging black American proletariat, through to the young white musicians who brought their awareness of blues back to the States from England in the sixties. A heady mix of blues and civil rights unfolds as the reader accompanies the author on a southbound journey from Chicago, known as the blues capital of the world , to New Orleans, the city close to the place Chuck Berry once referred to as the gateway from freedom . For anyone embarking on the journey this is essential reading that ensures the blues pilgrim gets the most from the land where blues began.

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Title: Highway 61( Crossroads on the Blues Highway) <>Binding: Paperback <>Author: DerekBright <>Publisher: HistoryPress(SC)

About the Author:

Derek Bright is a blues musician and researcher, and the author of "The Pilgrims' Way: Fact and Fiction of an Ancient Trackway." He travels to many of the blues festivals of America's Deep South, and and he plays guitar on Davey Ralph's album, King of the Delta Blues, available on Popstopper Records.

About this edition

• Publisher: The History Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0752489240
• ISBN 13: 9780752489247
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192