Moanin' at Midnight - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Moanin' at Midnight write by James Segrest. This book was released on 2012-11-28. Moanin' at Midnight available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Howlin’ Wolf was a musical giant in every way. He stood six foot three, weighed almost three hundred pounds, wore size sixteen shoes, and poured out his darkest sorrows onstage in a voice like a raging chainsaw. Half a century after his first hits, his sound still terrifies and inspires. Born Chester Burnett in 1910, the Wolf survived a grim childhood and hardscrabble youth as a sharecropper in Mississippi. He began his career playing and singing with the first Delta blues stars for two decades in perilous juke joints. He was present at the birth of rock ’n’ roll in Memphis, where Sam Phillips–who also discovered Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and Jerry Lee Lewis–called Wolf his “greatest discovery.” He helped develop the sound of electric blues and vied with rival Muddy Waters for the title of king of Chicago blues. He ended his career performing and recording with the world’s most famous rock stars. His passion for music kept him performing–despite devastating physical problems–right up to his death in 1976. There’s never been a comprehensive biography of the Wolf until now. Moanin’ at Midnight is full of startling information about his mysterious early years, surprising and entertaining stories about his decades at the top, and never-before-seen photographs. It strips away all the myths to reveal–at long last–the real-life triumphs and tragedies of this blues titan.
Blues with a Feeling
Blues with a Feeling - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Blues with a Feeling write by Tony Glover. This book was released on 2013-08-21. Blues with a Feeling available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Whenever you hear the prevalent wailing blues harmonica in commercials, film soundtracks or at a blues club, you are experiencing the legacy of the master harmonica player, Little Walter. Immensely popular in his lifetime, Little Walter had fourteen Top 10 hits on the R&B charts, and he was also the first Chicago blues musician to play at the Apollo. Ray Charles and B.B. King, great blues artists in their own right, were honored to sit in with his band. However, at the age of 37, he lay in a pauper's grave in Chicago. This book will tell the story of a man whose music, life and struggles continue to resonate to this day.
Can't Be Satisfied
Can't Be Satisfied - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Can't Be Satisfied write by Robert Gordon. This book was released on 2024-09-24. Can't Be Satisfied available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Muddy Waters invented electric blues and created the template for the rock and roll band and its wild lifestyle. Gordon excavates Muddy's mysterious past and early career, taking us from Mississippi fields to postwar Chicago street corners.
Lost Highway
Lost Highway - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lost Highway write by Peter Guralnick. This book was released on 2012-12-20. Lost Highway available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This masterful explorationof American roots music--country, rockabilly, and the blues--spotlights the artists who created a distinctly American sound, including Ernest Tubb, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Elvis Presley, Merle Haggard, and Sleepy LaBeef. In incisive portraits based on searching interviews with these legendary performers, Peter Guralnick captures the boundless passion that drove these men to music-making and that kept them determinedly, and sometimes almost desperately, on the road.
I Am the Blues
I Am the Blues - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook I Am the Blues write by Willie Dixon. This book was released on 1989. I Am the Blues available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
