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Title: Michael Bloomfield: If You Love These Blues by Jan Mark Wolkin, Bill Keenom, Carlos Santana ISBN: 0-87930-617-3 Publisher: Backbeat Books Pub. Date: 30 October, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.47 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A "must" for all Michael Bloomfield fans!
Comment: If you love blues music and Michael Bloomfield's creations in particular you won't want to be without Jan Mark Wolkin & Bill Keenom superb biography -- the first in-depth oral history to probe Bloomfield's life and times. Michael Bloomfield includes a cd of unreleased tracks and provides an inside look based on interviews with family, friends and colleagues.
Rating: 5
Summary: Listen To This Book
Comment: The cadence of this book moves at a tempo similar to Michael Bloomfield's life and music. Sometimes the words fly so fast they take away your breath; in other parts, every syllable inflicts white-hot pain in your soul. A floating, oral history biography isn't a new literary device, but it's certain the most excellent approach for someone so multidimensional as Bloomfield. Even the most hardcore fan will discover dozens of new stories in this book. To the newly initiated, the book explains a vital period of blues history. I surrendered to the book's spell, which is every bit as delicious and intricate as a prolonged Bloomfield solo on a good Saturday night. The bonus rarities CD is worth the price of admission alone, so how can you miss on this purchase?
Rating: 5
Summary: JUNKIE GENIUS
Comment: I am so old, I actually bought the Super Session album when it first came out. Since then, I gave up on any type of rock and roll, except for G.G. Allin. So one day, I'm killing time in a record store, and I see the Super Session CD, and I think I remember that. And I pass it a few more times in the following weeks, then one day I bought the CD. Wow! There are two kinds of people in this world: those who know Bloomfield is the best guitar player in rock (and define "rock" as broadly as possible), and those who never heard him play.
So I pick up this book. Very informative, and absolutely recommended. I always thought B.B. King and Muddy Waters were popular. But that's not the case, and Bloomfield was really the bridge between the old blues players, and the large audience they now enjoy.
Everybody has a good puke story, and on page 66, Bloomfield tells his, and it is a classic! Me hunched out of a Nova, heaving after winning a wine guzzling contest, doesn't compare.
But let me ask you something? If you could play like Bloomfield, would you shoot heroin? And what a lonely, miserable death he suffered! So sad!
His whole life, as recounted in this book, was one of pain. Couple of examples. On page 185, it states that Bloomfield for years "never brushed his teeth, and then he woke up one morning with blood all over the pillow and rushed to the dentist." Another example. He would rip out a page of a book he was reading, and stuff it in his mouth.
Bloomfield, you are the best!
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Title:My Labors and More ASIN: B00005JJ1M Publisher: Acadia Records Pub. Date: 18 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $16.99 |
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Title: Me and Big Joe by Michael Bloomfield, S. Summerville ISBN: 188930705X Publisher: Re-Search Pubns Pub. Date: 07 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title:Fillmore East: The Lost Concert Tapes 12-13-68 ASIN: B00008QSA6 Publisher: Sony Pub. Date: 08 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $11.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $10.99 |
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Title:Super Session ASIN: B00008QSA5 Publisher: Sony Pub. Date: 08 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $11.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $10.99 |
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Title:The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1966, Vol. 1 ASIN: B0000AYL2M Publisher: Universal Music & VI Pub. Date: 26 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $16.38 |
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