Magic Sam: The West Side Sound and the Blues That Got Away (The Roots of the Blues)
Language: English
Published by Simon Godfrey, 2026
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- Title
- Magic Sam: The West Side Sound and the Blues That Got Away (The Roots of the Blues)
- Author
- Godfrey, Simon
- Publisher
- Simon Godfrey
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798235793095
MAGIC SAM: The West Side Sound and the Blues That Got Away
On the morning of December 1, 1969, Sam Maghett collapsed in his own home, three weeks after his thirty-second birthday - at the exact moment his career was finally catching up to his talent. A Stax contract was being negotiated. A European tour was on the calendar. Weeks earlier, he'd torn apart the Ann Arbor Blues Festival alongside Charlie Musselwhite. By afternoon, all of it was gone.
This book tells the full story of the guitarist who built modern blues guitar's vocabulary out of a Mississippi childhood spent mostly outside the blues tradition - a hoedown fiddle culture, a homemade cigar-box guitar, a teenager who had to be taught to play "real" blues after he arrived in Chicago. It follows him from Cobra Records' scrappy West Side studio, where he cut "All Your Love" at twenty and never cracked the national charts, through a military prison sentence that nearly ended everything, to the two Delmark albums - West Side Soul and Black Magic - that finally captured him at full strength, just as a British blues boom built on his old labelmate's parallel hit was sending Eric Clapton and Peter Green back to the same Chicago studio Sam had recorded in.
Built from club-owner memories, liner notes, and the testimony of the musicians who came up under him, this is the first book to give Magic Sam's short, unfinished career the full account it has always deserved - the guitar, the voice, the friendships, the setbacks, and the December morning that cut it short.
Know the story. Hear the blues differently.
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About the Author
Simon Godfrey is a lifelong blues enthusiast and avid listener whose deep knowledge of the genre comes from decades spent following the music wherever it led. He now writes to put that knowledge into stories, researching each subject in depth so the history behind the music gets the same care as the music itself.
His work is written for blues fan, and curious newcomers alike, with one aim: to help readers discover and understand the music through deeply researched, engaging stories that connect the artists, songs, recordings, and influences that shaped the blues - so they can uncover forgotten treasures, understand why the music matters, and hear the blues in a whole new way.
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