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Blues eBooks

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  • The Last Bluesman

    by Ran Walker ...
    * This novel was originally published as Mojo's Guitar.“Ran Walker's The Last Bluesman plays an authentic Blues song on the page, filled with all the sorrow, heartache, and beauty that entails. This layered, haunting book is worth listening to.” ~ Mat Johnson, author of Pym and Loving Day“Ran Walker brings the blues into the 21st century and shows us how we can never forget our roots as long as we ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Early Blues

    The First Stars of Blues Guitar

    by Jas Obrecht ...
    Winner of the 2016 Living Blues Award for Blues Book of the YearSince 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.Like the best music documentaries, Early ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Improvising Blues Harmonica

    Improvising Blues Harmonica, by authors David Barrett and John Garcia, is a groundbreaking method explaining the mysterious world of improvising. This book and recording cover: chorus forms; what licks, riffs, melodies and phrases are made of; scale and chord theory; concepts for soloing (focus notes); phrase shaping; accompaniment playing; hooks, heads and bridges; elements that add unity to an ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Blues. La Musica Del Diavolo

    by Giles Oakley ...
    Dai campi di schiavi ai bordelli honky-tonk di New Orleans, dalle barrelhouses del Delta del Mississippi alle prigioni con le catene ai piedi, dalle grandi cantanti degli anni Venti alle registrazioni sul campo dei rural blues singers del Sud, per arrivare al blues urbano della Grande depressione e alle influenze recenti, Giles Oakley scrive una storia che si affida alle testimonianze dirette di ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Whose Blues?

    Facing Up to Race and the Future of the Music

    by Adam Gussow ...
    Mamie Smith's pathbreaking 1920 recording of "Crazy Blues" set the pop music world on fire, inaugurating a new African American market for "race records." Not long after, such records also brought black blues performance to an expanding international audience. A century later, the mainstream blues world has transformed into a multicultural and transnational melting pot, taking the music far beyond ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Here Come The Nice

    The Small Faces – Steve Marriott, Ronnie Lane, Ian McLagan and Kenney Jones were the epitome of cool. As well as being the sharpest looking band ever they were also brilliant both live on stage and in the studio. You would be hard pressed anywhere to find a band that displayed as much energy and passion as they did. There was also a generous camaraderie that flourished amongst themselves. Sadly, ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Piano

    10 Easy Blues Licks

    by Kamel Sadi ...
    10 easy blues licks In the key of A, B, E and G. Standard notation with note names and audio. ... Read more

    Free

  • R. Crumb's Heroes of Blues, Jazz & Country

    by R. Crumb ...
    Anyone who knows R. Crumb’s work as an illustrator knows of his passion for music. And all those who collect his work prize the Heroes of the Blues, Early Jazz Greats, and Pioneers of Country Music trading card sets he created in the early to- mid-1980s. Now they are packaged together for the first time in book form, along with an exclusive 21-track CD of music selected and compiled by Crumb ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rhythm And The Blues

    A Life in American Music

    by Jerry Wexler ...
    Atlantic Records partner and producer, Wexler presided over the evolution of the modern music business and made prodigious contributions through to our cultural history. Wexler has worked with the entire range of American genius: Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, and others. 75 photographs. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • King of the Blues

    The Rise and Reign of B. B. King

    The first full and authoritative biography of an American—indeed a world-wide—musical and cultural legend“No one worked harder than B.B. No one inspired more up-and-coming artists. No one did more to spread the gospel of the blues.”—President Barack Obama“He is without a doubt the most important artist the blues has ever produced.”—Eric ClaptonRiley “Blues Boy” King (1925-2015) was born into deep ... Read more

    $21.99 USD $14.99 USD

  • Steady Rollin'

    by Bob Margolin ...
    Informed by my years as a professional Blues musician and writer for Blues Revue magazine, my eBook presents some of my best column, snapshots and the stories behind them, and (intentional) Blues fiction. It is updated with current introductions to each story or photo. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Complete Classic Chicago Blues Harp

    by David Barrett ...
    This book is meant to take an instrument and musical styleand teach it to the people who made it so popular, the blues listening public. A comprehensive lesson and study book for the intermediate and advanced diatonic harmonica player, Classic Chicago Blues Harp presents techniques, progressive examples and accompanying twelve bar blues exercise and examples. Special attention is given to the ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Gary Moore

    The Official Biography

    by Harry Shapiro ...
    "Gary Moore is definitely in my list of top five guitar influences, right up there with Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Michael Schenker. He just blew me away from the first time I heard him." Kirk Hammett"The most powerful, genuine, authentic blues-rock guitarist of his day." Jack Bruce"Gary opened the door for me and a lot of other blues-rock guitarists. He was a legend, a ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Led Zeppelin

    All the Albums, All the Songs

    by Martin Popoff ...
    This expanded edition of Led Zeppelin: All the Albums, All the Songs breaks down one of the world’s most prolific bands—track by track, album by album.Formed by the unlikely alliance of two ace London studio musicians and two bar-band bumpkins from the north, Led Zeppelin went on to create the template for the modern marauding rock ‘n’ roll band. Though Zeppelin is often described as “heavy,” any ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Deep Blues

    Una storia musicale e culturale dal Mississippi Delta al South Side di Chicago e infine nel mondo

    by Robert Palmer ...
    “Un libro lucido, straordinario” Greil Marcus “Un libro fondamentale sulla storia del blues” “The Nation” Da uno dei più grandi esperti al mondo, in quello che è considerato da tutti gli appassionati una pietra miliare della storia del blues, finalmente in italiano Deep Blues. Un libro che è al contempo un vero e proprio viaggio antropologico alla ricerca delle origini del blues, ma anche il ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Blues Legacies and Black Feminism

    Gertrude Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday

    From one of this country's most important intellectuals comes a brilliant analysis of the blues tradition that examines the careers of three crucial black women blues singers through a feminist lens. Angela Davis provides the historical, social, and political contexts with which to reinterpret the performances and lyrics of Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday as powerful ... Read more

    $10.99 USD $8.99 USD

  • The Complete Robert Johnson

    by Woody Mann ...
    An exploration of the 29 songs that form the complete recorded works of this seminal blues artist. Transcriptions in standard notation and guitar tablature give new insight into Johnson's unique guitar and vocal styles. Includes a special section on the music and playing techniques covering standard chord forms and open tunings. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Loving Amy

    A Mother's Story

    “Amy was one of those rare people who made an impact . . . She was a bundle of emotions, at times adorable and at times unbearable. . . . Amy’s passing did not follow a clear line. It was jumbled, and her life was unfinished—not life’s natural order at all. She left no answers, only questions, and in the years since her death I’ve found myself trying to make sense of the frayed ends of her ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Blues with a Feeling

    The Little Walter Story

    Whenever you hear the prevalent wailing blues harmonica in commercials, film soundtracks or at a blues club, you are experiencing the legacy of the master harmonica player, Little Walter. Immensely popular in his lifetime, Little Walter had fourteen Top 10 hits on the R&B charts, and he was also the first Chicago blues musician to play at the Apollo. Ray Charles and B.B. King, great blues artists ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • L'art de ranger ses disques

    Un petit guide impertinent, drôle mais très sérieux au fond, à l'usage des mélomanes ordinaires comme des maniaques du disque. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Slowhand

    The Life and Music of Eric Clapton

    by Philip Norman ...
    From the bestselling author of Shout!, comes the definitive biography of Eric Clapton, a Rock legend whose life story is as remarkable as his music, which transformed the sound of a generation.For half a century Eric Clapton has been acknowledged to be one of music's greatest virtuosos, the unrivalled master of an indispensable tool, the solid-body electric guitar. His career has spanned the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Texas Flood

    The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan

    **An instant New York Times bestseller!The definitive biography of guitar legend Stevie Ray Vaughan, with an epilogue by Jimmie Vaughan, and foreword and afterword by Double Trouble’s Chris Layton and Tommy Shannon.**Just a few years after he almost died from a severe addiction to cocaine and alcohol, a clean and sober Stevie Ray Vaughan was riding high. His last album was his most critically ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Up Jumped the Devil

    The Real Life of Robert Johnson

    The Penderyn 2020 Music Book Prize (UK edition)Living Blues Critics Choice Best Blues Book of 2019Living Blues Readers Choice Best Blues Book of 2019Certificate of Merit in the Best Historical Research in Recorded Blues, Soul, Gospel, or R&B category from ARSC (Association for Recorded Sound Collections)An essential story of blues lore, black culture, and American music historyRobert Johnson's ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • When I Left Home

    My Story

    by Buddy Guy ...
    According to Eric Clapton, John Mayer, and the late Stevie Ray Vaughn, Buddy Guy is the greatest blues guitarist of all time. An enormous influence on these musicians as well as Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, and Jeff Beck, he is the living embodiment of Chicago blues.Guy's epic story stands at the absolute nexus of modern blues. He came to Chicago from rural Louisiana in the fifties-the very moment ... Read more

    $11.99 USD