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Published by Basic Civitas Books, New York, 2009
Seller: Gregor Rare Books, Langley, WA, U.S.A.
Second Printing of the First Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket. In the 1920s, Southern record companies ventured to cities like Dallas, Atlanta, and New Orleans, where they set up primitive recording equipment in makeshift studios. They brought in street singers, medicine show performers, pianists from the juke joints and barrelhouses. The music that circulated through Southern work camps, prison farms, and vaudeville shows would be lost to us if it hadn t been captured on location by these performers and recorders. Blues historian Paul Oliver uncovers these folk traditions and the circumstances under which they were recorded, rescuing the forefathers of the blues who were lost before they even had a chance to be heard.
Published by Hippocrene Books, 1984
ISBN 10: 0882547518ISBN 13: 9780882547510
Seller: Gregor Rare Books, Langley, WA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright dust jacket. This comprehensive collection of writings by this noted blues historian includes essays, record liner notes, and interviews on a myriad of aspects of blues music. Oliver addresses forms of rural music, guitar pickers, singers and stage intertainers. For more than 30 years the British blues scholar Paul Oliver has researched, analyzed, promoted and recorded blues musicians. This new book of essays and critiques originally written for such magazines as "Jazz Journal, "Jazz Review", "Blues Unlimited", "Jazz and Blues" and "Living Blues" is a vibrant anthology that reflects a lifelong passion for the anger, despair and humor that only blues provides.