Bill Wyman's Blues Odyssey
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978-0-7513-3442-5 (ISBN)
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Showcases 40 legendary Blues players from Muddy Waters to John Lee Hooker with fascinating stories and inside information. Includes the geographical, social and political history around the time of the blues, from life on the cotton plantations to vibrant city night-life and features previously unpublished photographs of famous blues locations and key players from Bill's personal archive. In this evocative and intensely personal history of the Blues Bill Wyman pays tribute to the musicians who inspired him and whose music he took around the world as a member of the Rolling Stones. The starting point of Bill's Odyssey is the journey of African slaves to the plantations of America's Deep South. We follow their descendants as they walk travel the highways and ride the railroads out of the Delta and the troubled South via Memphis to the northern cites of Chicago and St. Louis. But this is no superficial history: a society is revealed where poverty and injustice as well as love and faith found their expression in a musical style that gave birth to rock 'n' roll. Location shots of smokey juke joints railroad stations and endless highways combine with stunning maps to bring the Blues alive. Feature spreads with preveiously unpublished photographs from Bill Wyman's personal showcase 38 Blues legends from Robert Johnson to John Lee Hooker telling the story of their fascinating and often troubled lives. Bill Wyman is a legend in his own right. He has known and played with many of the Blue legends and his personal knowledge and unprecedented access give this book an authenticity that is almost impossible to match.
Bill Wyman is a founder member of The Rolling Stones, now playing in his own band The Rhythm Kings. His 3rd album went to no. 1 in the Blues and Jazz charts in 2000 and his 4th album was released in April 2001.
Part 1 From Africa to the New World: the slaves' journey from Africa to the southern states; traditional African music; the Civil War; Papa Charlie Jackson. Part 2 The roots of black American music: early black music and life after the Civil war; cotton picking and life on the plantations; the Stovall Plantation; the origins of the Blues; first spirituals published; Leadbelly. Part 3 The birth of the Blues: jazz; ragtime and Scott Joplin; development of the phonograph; Gibson guitars manufactured; first commercial two-sided disc; Charley Patton, W.C. Handy. Part 4 Ladies sing the Blues: Ma Rainey, Mamie Smith and Bessie Smith; Bessie Smith appears on Broadway; Paramount and the early record labels; "Nobody knows you when you're down and out". Part 5 Country Blues in the 1920s: Blues from the Mississippi Delta, Texas, Alabama, Georgia and the Carolinas; Blind Lemon Jefferson, Sleepy John Estes; Tenessee - the development of finger-picking Blues; Son House. Part 6 Early urban Blues: jug bands; Blind Blake; migration to the cities; Leroy Carr; Blind Willie McTell; the piano and "Boogie Woogie"; Fats Waller. Part 7 1930s -the depression years: Library of Congress field recordings; country music meets the Blues; Jimmy Rodgers, the "father of country music". Part 8 The postdepression years: rural meets urban; the invention of the jukebox; Robert Johnson - life and legend; spirituals to swing - the first concerts at New York's Carnegie Hall; gospel music, Blind Willie Johnson; Ette James. Part 9 Blues, big bands and Hollywood: Billie Holiday opens at the Apollo with Count Basie; the Blues moves to the West Coast of America; T-Bone Walker records "Stormy Monday". Part 10 Postwar Blues: John Lee Hooker records "Boogie Chillen"; the harmonica in Blues; BB King's recording of "Three O'Clock Blues" tops the R&B chart; radio spreads the Blues; WDIA in Memphis switches to all-Black programming; Sonny Boy Williamson; the rise of the record company; Chess Records - James Cotton; the introduction of the LP. Part 11 1950s R&B, rock 'n' roll: Howlin Wolf records at Sun Studios, Memphis; Elvis Presley records "Mystery Train"; Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry record major hits; Sun records. Part 12 1960s - Blues in Britain and Europe: jazz in Britain helps the Blues; Big Bill Broonzy; skiffle and the early Blues boom; white men sing the Blues; the Rolling Stones; folk music and the Blues; Elmore James. Part 13 The Blues is everywhere: how rock and pop borrowed from the Blues; building a Blues collection; Buddy Guy; the Blues in advertising; Eric Clapton; the future of the Blues; who will carry the torch?.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 4.10.2001 |
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| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 224 x 284 mm |
| Gewicht | 1890 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Jazz / Blues |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7513-3442-1 / 0751334421 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7513-3442-5 / 9780751334425 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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