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Title: Bill Wyman's Blues Odyssey: A Journey to Music's Heart & Soul by Bill Wyman, Richard Havers ISBN: 0789480468 Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4
Rating: 3
Summary: Pretty Pictures, Problematic Prose
Comment: A coffee table book, pure and simple, with thick, glossy pages full of photos, timelines, and charts. But the prose is the equivalent of a high school term paper--no flow to the paragraphs, themes jumbled and disorganized, little explication or analysis. Sure, it is an encyclopedia of facts, some of them quite interesting, but who wants to read an encyclopedia cover to cover? Apart from the inelegant ghost writing, Wyman's own asides are entirely superfluous. Compare this to Alan Lomax's "The Land Where the Blues Began".
Rating: 5
Summary: Roots of the Blues and African American History
Comment: There may be other books that go into more detail about each artist, but this is loaded with just enough information to get you started on your own "Blues Odyssey".
Rating: 5
Summary: A Major Masterpiece on the Mojo Music of America!
Comment: Bill Wyman - of The Rolling Stones, and The Rhythm Kings - has written a major masterpiece on the mojo music of America. This is The Blues. ... There is no other music as deeply authentic and as emotionally gutsy as the blues. It is a music based on a feeling whose archetypal root is grounded in the solitary pain of the existential core of realty: LONELINESS - and the joyous TRANSCENDENCE of that loneliness. ... We all feel pain, and because of this we can all relate to the blues - the loneliness, the pain, the anger, the freedom to rebel from it, and the joy of the thrill and excitement of escaping from this loneliness. ... Only the blues, in its powerful simplicity of delivery, can sincerely convey these emotions to and from the human soul. It is these same emotions which many musicians, including Bill Wyman, have been inspired by to play the blues - and which cause us to RESONATE with the blues we hear being played by our fellow musicians. Non-musicians in touch with these same basic feelings deep in their soul feel the same way when they hear the blues being played. It's like someone is saying, with musical words: "Man, that's EXACTLY how I feel, and how it is!" ... It is THIS spirit of EMPATHY for the blues that is captured in this excellent book by Bill Wyman. ... If you have ever been moved by the blues and want to learn more about it, but don't know where to start, then start with this book! It is well written, has glorious photographs, pays true homage and respect to the musicians who created this musical artform, and contains many personal stories about Bill Wyman's musical journey through life as a blues musician as well. ... I admit: I am an ENTHUSIAST - and I am very enthused about this book because I KNOW that it will inspire ENTHUSIASM for the blues in everyone who reads it. ... BRAHVO, Bill Wyman, on a work well done! ... - The Aeolian Kid
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Title:Bill Wyman's Blues Odyssey ASIN: B00005OACN Publisher: Document Pub. Date: 06 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $20.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $20.98 |
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Title: Rolling with the Stones by Bill Wyman, Richard Havers ISBN: 0789489678 Publisher: DK Publishing Pub. Date: 28 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: American Roots Music [BOOK] by Robert Santelli, Holly George-Warren, Jim Brown, Bonnie Raitt ISBN: 0810914328 Publisher: Harry N Abrams Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $49.50 |
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Title: Deep Blues by Robert Palmer ISBN: 0140062238 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: May, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Can't Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters by Robert Gordon ISBN: 0316328499 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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