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Mississippi Blues Today

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The Blues, that unique form of African-American music, continues to hold a fascination with every successive generation of young people. Scots-born Londoner Robert Nicholson is only one such person. Grabbed first as a teenager by the white blues sounds of the Rolling Stones and George Thorogood, he quickly became conscious about the real roots of the Blues. Inspired by the great Chicago musicians Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, and B. B. King and the Mississippi Blues originators Robert Johnson and Charlie Patton, the creator embarked on a journey to trace the roots of the electric sounds of Chicago’s Chess record label back to the Mississippi Delta itself, the birthplace of the Blues.Along side Memphis-based photographer, Logan Young, Robert Nicholson has conducted a series of extended field trips to the South. Their travels have brought them into contact with the Blues musicians of today. This book presents in words and images a at the back of-the-scenes, ceaselessly intimate, portrait of the main players on the current Delta Blues scene, including Lonnie Pitchford, Booba Barnes, Scott Dunbar, Son Thomas, and others. This important book gives a vivid account of an economically impoverished people and examines the ceaselessly brittle conviviality, hidden racial tensions, and undercurrents of violence from which the Blues has grown and in which it continues to thrive. The stunning original photographs by Logan Young fortify Nicholson’s informative, entertaining, and thought-provoking text. Together they present a unique sociological and musical picture of the Mississippi Blues, and of the ways it has endured and evolved in recent The usa.

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