{"product_id":"early-blues","title":"Early Blues","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2016 Living Blues Award for Blues Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe complete history of early blues guitar, with portraits of its first stars—now in paperback\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince the early 1900s, blues and the guitar have traveled side by side. This book tells the story of their pairing from the first reported sightings of blues musicians, to the rise of nationally known stars, to the onset of the Great Depression, when blues recording virtually came to a halt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike the best music documentaries, \u003ci\u003eEarly Blues: The First Stars of Blues Guitar\u003c\/i\u003e interweaves musical history, quotes from celebrated musicians (B.B. King, John Lee Hooker, Ry Cooder, and Johnny Winter, to name a few), and a spellbinding array of life stories to illustrate the early days of blues guitar in rich and resounding detail. In these chapters, you'll meet Sylvester Weaver, who recorded the world's first guitar solos, and Paramount Records artists Papa Charlie Jackson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and Blind Blake, the \"King of Ragtime Blues Guitar.\" Blind Willie McTell, the Southeast's superlative twelve-string guitar player, and Blind Willie Johnson, street-corner evangelist of sublime gospel blues, also get their due, as do Lonnie Johnson, the era's most influential blues guitarist; Mississippi John Hurt, with his gentle, guileless voice and syncopated fingerpicking style; and slide guitarist Tampa Red, \"the Guitar Wizard.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on a deep archive of documents, photographs, record company ads, complete discographies, and up-to-date findings of leading researchers, this is the most comprehensive and complete account ever written of the early stars of blues guitar—an essential chapter in the history of American music.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":57459890454872,"sku":"9780816698059","price":17.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/early-blues","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}