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Early Blues: The First Stars of Blues Guitar

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Winner of the 2016 Living Blues Award for Blues Book of the Year

For the reason that early 1900s, blues and the guitar have traveled side by side. This book tells the story in their pairing from the first reported sightings of blues musicians, to the upward push of nationally known stars, to the onset of the Great Depression, when blues recording virtually came to a halt.

Like the most efficient music documentaries, Early Blues: The First Stars of Blues Guitar interweaves musical history, quotes from celebrated musicians (B.B. King, John Lee Hooker, Ry Cooder, and Johnny Winter, to name a couple of), and a spellbinding array of life stories to illustrate the early days of blues guitar in wealthy and resounding detail. In these chapters, you’ll meet Sylvester Weaver, who recorded the world’s first guitar solos, and Paramount Records artists Papa Charlie Jackson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and Blind Blake, the “King of Ragtime Blues Guitar.” Blind Willie McTell, the Southeast’s superlative twelve-string guitar player, and Blind Willie Johnson, street-corner evangelist of sublime gospel blues, also get their due, as do Lonnie Johnson, the era’s most influential blues guitarist; Mississippi John Hurt, with his gentle, guileless voice and syncopated fingerpicking style; and slide guitarist Tampa Red, “the Guitar Wizard.”

Drawing on a deep archive of documents, photographs, record company ads, complete discographies, and up-to-date findings of leading researchers, that is probably the most comprehensive and complete account ever written of the early stars of blues guitar—an very important chapter within the history of American music.


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