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Title: Children of the Blues: 40 Musicians Shaping a New Generation of Blues Tradition by Art Tipaldi ISBN: 0-87930-700-5 Publisher: Backbeat Books Pub. Date: 09 February, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Guide To The Musicians Making the Music
Comment: I caught an interview with Art Tipaldi and Dan Ackroyd on Elwood's Blues radio program about this book and put it on my "must buy" list. One month later I was able to get it(and have it signed by the author) at the North Atlantic Blues Festival at the Blues Revue Booth where Art works as one of the best blues columnists and writers in the country. If you love blues music you need to buy this book. Fourty nine of todays best blues musicians are profiled in four sections - Real fathers,Real Children,Chicago and the South, Texas,East Coast and West Coast. The book starts with this sentence: You dont choose the blues - it chooses you.Amen! As someone who was raised on rock and roll I discovered the blues when Robert Cray came on the scene with Strong Persuader - so taken with the music I had to find more - the same way Art writes that he discovered this music.I must confess - I travel to several blues festivals a year, have over 1000 CDs -80-85% are blues, catch live blues bands whenever I can- so I am a big blues fan. This book introduces you to the men and women playing the music today - people like Lucky Peterson who stole this years North Atlantic Blues Festival, Carl Weathersbee who killed this years Poconno Blues Festival, Shemika Copeland who continues to get better and better with performances like the Chesepeak Blues festival this past year and her dad Johnnie "Clyde" Copeland,Keb Mo, Robert Cray,Jimmy Vaughan,Coco Montoya,Kelly Joe Phelps and many others.Included bonus is a Discology in the back with all the music these musicians have recorded. Music is best when listened to but this book tells you the story about the people making the music. I know Art couldnt include everyone making Blues Music today but I hope Art's next book includes Little Charlie Baty and Rick Estrin,Tab Benoit, Magic Slim and many others. I see this book and others like it is an important part in the effort to keep the blues alive. Buy it- you will not be disappointed if you love Blues Music!
Rating: 5
Summary: Well done, Art!
Comment: FANTASTIC book. Art does a great job in selecting artists possessing various interpretations of the blues idiom, from the traditional to the contemporary and presenting their stories, making for both a captivating and entertaining read. If someone is looking to read about musicians based on his/her perception of their relative "impact" or "importance", an encyclopedia or some similar exhaustive tome should suffice; If you want the low down, honest , warts-n-all story from a handful of artists covering the whole, current state - of- the blues map, grab this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Bridging the generation gap
Comment: At last, a book on the blues that features contemporary artists, let's them tell their story (and doesn't simply repeat the same old biographical details), and bridges the gap to the blues artists of the past. There's something here for all blues fans, whether they prefer the bluesmen and women of previous generations (like Muddy Waters and Walter Horton) or those of today.
If you want to learn every single detail about the life of the featured artists (the 49 contemporary artists chosen or those that they talk about) then this probably isn't the book for you. If however you want to find out more about their personalities then this is a must buy. Blues is about feeling and is based on experience and this book gives a great insight into the events that have shaped the music of some of today's foremost artists.
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Title: State of the Blues: The Living Legacy of the Delta by Jeff Dunas, William Ferris ISBN: 0893817996 Publisher: Aperture Pub. Date: 30 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: Chicago Blues (NFSC/UK) by Raebum Flerlage, Lisa Day, Raeburn Flerlage ISBN: 155022400X Publisher: ECW Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Louisiana Music: A Journey from R&B to Zydeco, Jazz to Country, Blues to Gospel, Cajun Music to Swamp Pop to Carnival Music and Beyond by Rick Koster, Fred LeBlanc ISBN: 0306810034 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: 19 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.50 |
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