Pioneers of the Blues Revival - 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 Pioneers of the Blues Revival write by Steve Cushing. This book was released on 2014-06-15. Pioneers of the Blues Revival available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Steve Cushing, the award-winning host of the nationally syndicated public radio staple Blues before Sunrise, has spent over thirty years observing and participating in the Chicago blues scene. In Pioneers of the Blues Revival, he interviews many of the prominent white researchers and enthusiasts whose advocacy spearheaded the blues' crossover into the mainstream starting in the 1960s. Opinionated and territorial, the American, British, and French interviewees provide fascinating first-hand accounts of the era and movement. Experts including Paul Oliver, Gayle Dean Wardlow, Sam Charters, Ray Flerledge, Paul Oliver, Richard K. Spottswood, and Pete Whelan chronicle in their own words their obsessive early efforts at cataloging blues recordings and retrace lifetimes spent loving, finding, collecting, reissuing, and producing records. They and nearly a dozen others recount relationships with blues musicians, including the discoveries of prewar bluesmen Mississippi John Hurt, Son House, Skip James, and Bukka White, and the reintroduction of these musicians and many others to new generations of listeners. The accounts describe fieldwork in the South, renew lively debates, and tell of rehearsals in Muddy Waters's basement and randomly finding Lightning Hopkins's guitar in a pawn shop. Blues scholar Barry Lee Pearson provides a critical and historical framework for the interviews in an introduction.
The Blues Revival
The Blues Revival - 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 The Blues Revival write by Bob Groom. This book was released on 1971. The Blues Revival available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Blues Before Sunrise
Blues Before Sunrise - 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 Before Sunrise write by Steve Cushing. This book was released on 2010-01-15. Blues Before Sunrise available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection assembles the best interviews from Steve Cushing's long-running radio program Blues Before Sunrise, the nationally syndicated, award-winning program focusing on vintage blues and R&B. As both an observer and performer, Cushing has been involved with the blues scene in Chicago for decades. His candid, colorful interviews with prominent blues players, producers, and deejays reveal the behind-the-scenes world of the formative years of recorded blues. Many of these oral histories detail the careers of lesser-known but greatly influential blues performers and promoters. The book focuses in particular on pre–World War II blues singers, performers active in 1950s Chicago, and nonperformers who contributed to the early blues world. Interviewees include Alberta Hunter, one of the earliest African American singers to transition from Chicago's Bronzeville nightlife to the international spotlight, and Ralph Bass, one of the greatest R&B producers of his era. Blues expert, writer, record producer, and cofounder of Living Blues Magazine Jim O'Neal provides the book's foreword.
History of the Blues
History of 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 History of the Blues write by Francis Davis. This book was released on 1995-02-04. History of the Blues available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Discusses the history of blues music from its origins in the Mississippi Delta to its peak in Chicago right after World War II to its current popularity with whites in urban clubs. Includes a timeline showing how events in the larger society had an impact on the music.
Blues Before Sunrise 2
Blues Before Sunrise 2 - 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 Before Sunrise 2 write by Steve Cushing. This book was released on 2019-12-05. Blues Before Sunrise 2 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this new collection of interviews, Steve Cushing once again invites readers into the vaults of Blues Before Sunrise, his acclaimed nationally syndicated public radio show. Icons from Memphis Minnie to the Gay Sisters stand alongside figures like schoolteacher Flossie Franklin, who helped Leroy Carr pen some of his most famous tunes; saxman Abb Locke and his buddy Two-Gun Pete, a Chicago cop notorious for killing people in the line of duty; and Scotty "The Dancing Tailor" Piper, a font of knowledge on the black entertainment scene of his day. Cushing also devotes a section to religious artists, including the world-famous choir Wings Over Jordan and their travails touring and performing in the era of segregation. Another section focuses on the jazz-influenced Bronzeville scene that gave rise to Marl Young, Andrew Tibbs, and many others while a handful of Cushing's early brushes with the likes of Little Brother Montgomery, Sippi Wallace, and Blind John Davis round out the volume.Diverse and entertaining, Blues Before Sunrise 2 adds a chorus of new voices to the fascinating history of Chicago blues.
