Highway 61

Crossroads on the Blues Highway

Derek Bright (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

178 Seiten

2020
The Choir Press (Verlag)
978-1-78963-182-1 (ISBN)

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Highway 61 is the legendary Blues Highway and route taken by modern-day blues pilgrims on their journey south into the Mississippi Delta. For anyone embarking on the journey this is essential reading that ensures the blues pilgrim gets the most from the land where blues began.

Follow British Blues musician and researcher, Derek Bright, as he travels along the famed Highway 61 route from Chicago to New Orleans. This thoroughly researched book delves deeply into African American culture, history and music both past and present associated with the highway. For anyone considering travelling Highway 61, or just wanting to learn more about this historic route and the origins of the blues, this book is essential reading. 2020 Edition with additional photography and updated information.
'Bright is an old master at following old and ancient trails, and you couldn't pick a better guide to show you the sights on Highway 61' ( Paul Garon, co-founder of Living Blues)
'Derek tunes the car radio to the very best black music that America has to offer...for those of us yet to make this trip into a still so relevant psycho-geographical culture, he is our eyes, ears, and conscience' (Johnny Green, former road manager of The Clash)

Derek Bright is a British blues musician, researcher and author. His first book 'The Pilgrims' Way: Fact & Fiction of an Ancient Trackway' re-evaluated use of the route evidenced by roadside crime, prohibitive legislation, and economic inequality. He has appeared on several TV programmes including Simon Reeve's Pilgrimage; Tony Robinson's Britain's Ancient Tracks, and the BBC's Countryfile. Then inspired to research the history of the blues linked to the struggle for emancipation, he followed his own blues pilgrimage to Chicago and the Deep South of the USA. Derek took three road trips, each time confronting his own expectations through meeting musicians, writers, historians, farmers and bartenders along the route from Chicago to New Orleans who shared their knowledge, experience and understanding of the land and culture from where the Blues originated.

Acknowledgements. Foreword by Johnny Green. Introduction. Chapter 1 Down on the Killing Floor: Chicago. Chapter 2 Lord, Sixty-One Highway: Joliet to Rock Island. Chapter 3 Down to St Louis: St Louis. Chapter 4 Big Train Goes to Memphis: Memphis. Chapter 5 Casinos and Cotton: Walls to Robinsonville. Chapter 6 Pass the Biscuits - It's King Biscuit Time: Helena. Chapter 7 Juke Joints, Shacks and BBQ: Clarksdale. Chapter 8 The Ghosts of Emmett Till: Tutwiler to Greenville. Chapter 9 Beyond Catfish Row: Vicksburg to Natchez. Chapter 10 Carry Me Down on Rampart Street: New Orleans. Afterword. Bibliography. Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	16.09.2020
Vorwort	Johnny Green
Zusatzinfo	78 b& w and 35 colour photographs; 78 b& w and 35 colour photographs
Verlagsort	Gloucester
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 216 mm
Gewicht	570 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Jazz / Blues
	Reisen ► Bildbände
	Reiseführer ► Nord- / Mittelamerika ► USA
ISBN-10	1-78963-182-3 / 1789631823
ISBN-13	978-1-78963-182-1 / 9781789631821
Zustand	Neuware