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During the 1920s and 30s, many of the biggest stars of the time--including Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Alberta Hunter, Ethel Waters, Porter Grainger, Josephine Baker, Frankie 'Half-Pint' Jaxon, Lucille Bogan, Tony Jackson and Clara Smith--were openly celebrating LGBTQ lives through the songs they wrote, performed and recorded. Award-winning author Darryl W. Bullock brings their stories to the fore through contemporary reports, interviews, news articles and rare archive material, painting a vibrant picture of a revolutionary period in both popular music and Queer history that has long been overlooked.

Explores lyrical representations of romantic and sexual betrayal in the blues, revealing deceit and entrapment constraining the physical, socioeconomic, and political movement of African Americans. Argues that blues music calls for a reckoning while expressing faith in a secular and moral justice-to-come.

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 Clapton. Riley "Blues Boy" King (1925-2015) was born into deep poverty in Jim Crow Mississippi. Wrenched away from his sharecropper father, B.B. lost his mother at age ten, leaving him more or less alone. Music became his emancipation from exhausting toil in the fields. Inspired by a local minister's guitar and by the records of Blind Lemon Jefferson and T-Bone Walker, encouraged by his cousin, the established blues man Bukka White, B.B. taught his guitar to sing in the unique solo style that, along with his relentless work ethic and humanity, became his trademark. In turn, generations of artists claimed him as inspiration, from Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton to Carlos Santana and the Edge. King of the Blues presents the vibrant life and times of a trailblazing giant. Witness to dark prejudice and lynching in his youth, B.B. performed incessantly (some 15,000 concerts in 90 countries over nearly 60 years)--in some real way his means of escaping his past. Several of his concerts, including his landmark gig at Chicago's Cook County Jail, endure in legend to this day. His career roller-coasted between adulation and relegation, but he always rose back up. At the same time, his story reveals the many ways record companies took advantage of artists, especially those of color. Daniel de Viés has interviewed almost every surviving member of B.B. King's inner circle--family, band members, retainers, managers, and more--and their voices and memories enrich and enliven the life of this Mississippi blues titan, whom his contemporary Bobby "Blue" Bland simply called "the man."

The first full and authoritative biography of an American-indeed a world-wide-musical and cultural legend

Fallen Fret follows two Brooklyn sisters who chose Harlem edge over Times Square flash. When Chaz Russell needed a guitarist to lead his blues band, he chose Liz O'Malley who had left prison on her twenty-fifth birthday with prodigious guitar technique learned from a cellmate. Her deft string work rejuvenated Chaz's stale blues band, but when she acquired a custom guitar, the wrong people noticed. Musicians fawned when her sister Sarah entered a nightclub clutching her reporter's notebook. She could enrich a performer with a complimentary review, or extinguish a career by mentioning languid play. She ruffled the Manhattan music scene when she inquired about the night jazz and blues gods secretly recorded. During the summer of 2009, the sisters, immersed in the blues music scene, fraternized with a group of shadowy personalities soaked with street sense and ready to choose violence over talk. This novel, driven by greed and guitar lust, is a story of strength and honesty, despite its shocking ending.

"[A] collection of over fifty years of writing about the South and its music by Stanley Booth ... Booth's close contacts with many of the musicians he writes about provide a gateway to truly understanding the music and culture of Memphis and other blues strongholds in the South. Subjects include Elvis Presley, Otis Redding, William Eggleston, Ma Rainey, Blind Willie McTell, Graceland, Beale Street and much more"--Publisher's website.

How can classic rock live on when its idols are dying all around us?Twilight of the Gods is a bold, often humorous, and provocative book about our rock gods and the undeniable messages they leave behind. Since the 1960s, artists like the Rolling Stones, the Who, Fleetwood Mac, the Eagles, Black Sabbath, and Bruce Springsteen have ushered the classic rock canon forward. Even groups that are no longer active?the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin?continue to wield an outsized amount of cultural capital. But no matter how entrenched these classic rockers have been, you can already see signs of their decline.Mixing personal memoir, criticism, and journalism, Steven Hyden, author of the critically acclaimed Your Favorite Band Is Killing Me, explores the ways that classic rock changed the culture?how it established the album as music's answer to the novel and rock concerts as the secular equivalent to church?and asks whether any of these signposts can endure. He investigates the rise and fall of classic rock radio and asks whether the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is telling the right version of rock history. Twilight of the Gods explains what we can learn from rock gods and their music, and tries to answer the most important question: Is classic rock ephemeral or forever?

Blues was once described as the devil's music. It eventually became some of the most beloved American music that was embraced by a global audience. Originating in African American communities in the South in the late 1800s, it was inspired by gospel and spiritual music sung by field hands and sharecroppers who worked on plantations. During the Great Migration from the early 1900s to the mid-1970s, many African Americans moved north for a better quality of life. Chicago was one of America's leading industrialized cites, and manufacturing jobs were plentiful and provided better wages than sharecropping. Many blues musicians who worked as field hands and sharecroppers moved to Chicago not only for those jobs, but also to pursue their love of music. Greats such as Big Bill Broonzy, Tampa Red, Muddy Waters, Jimmy and Estelle Yancey, Robert Nighthawk, Elmore James, Willie Dixon, Earl Hooker, Koko Taylor, Sly Johnson, Buddy Guy, Howlin' Wolf, Eddie Burns, Zora Young, Junior Wells, and a host of others came with their own styles and gave birth to Chicago blues.

Emerging from the not-so-mean streets of suburban New England at the tail end of the 1980s, The Unband embraced everything reckless, unhealthy, and downright harebrained about rock and roll. After a decade on the booze-and-gas-soaked road to success, with the help of their dominatrix manager, a willful record executive or two, and dumb luck in spades, the hard-rocking, gleefully out-of-control Unband arrived at the threshold of the new century and got their shot at the big time?in a chaotic music industry where boy-band pop ruled supreme and rock music had been declared dead. In this epic, intoxicated un-memoir, Unband bassist Michael Ruffino delves deeper into the story he originally told in 2004's Gentlemanly Repose, taking readers along on a raucous tear through the netherworld of heavy rock, populated with crack-smoking Girl Scouts, collegiate bedlamites, shotgun-toting barmaids, a rodent-chomping music CEO, a beer-drinking chimp, and headbangers by the horde, while on tour with giants of heavy metal including Dio, Motörhead, Anthrax, Def Leppard, and a Who Was Who of reunited '80s hair bands. Into that volatile mix, The Unband brought do-it-yourself pyrotechnics, a giant inflatable hand (for making giant inflatable gestures), a high tolerance for substance abuse of all kinds, and an infectious love of rock and roll and everything it stands for.Equal parts This Is Spinal Tap and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Adios, Motherfucker is a riotous and unbridled testament to rock and roll being at its best on the brink of disaster.

Source: Wikipedia. Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Pages: 169. Chapters: Amazing Grace, Carolina in My Mind, My Way, Let It Be, The House of the Rising Sun, Immigrant Song, My Sweet Lord, The Long and Winding Road, Superstar, Layla, I'll Be There, I'm Your Captain, A Change Is Gonna Come, Your Song, Paranoid, Lola, River Deep - Mountain High, Suicide Is Painless, Bridge over Troubled Water, Band of Gold, War, A Song for You, Spirit in the Sky, Someday We'll Be Together, Only Love Can Break Your Heart, (They Long to Be) Close to You, Ain't No Mountain High Enough, The Tears of a Clown, Bring It On Home to Me, Get Ready, It's Just a Matter of Time, Rocky Top, Rose Garden, Ball of Confusion, Solitary Man, (There's) Always Something There to Remind Me, Voodoo Child, Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours, Make It Easy on Yourself, American Woman, It's All in the Game, We've Only Just Begun, The Letter, Fire and Rain, Domino, All Right Now, Summertime Blues, Thank You, (I Know) I'm Losing You, Lady D'Arbanville, Chestnut Mare, In the Summertime, Iron Man, Give Me Just a Little More Time, Worried Life Blues, Bron-Y-Aur Stomp, He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother, As the Years Go By, I Can't Get Next to You, Wild World, Who'll Stop the Rain, Let's Stick Together, Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing, Handbags and Gladrags, Crazy Love, Ohio (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young song), Black Magic Woman, Get Up Sex Machine, Instant Karma!, Up Around the Bend, The Green Manalishi, The Prettiest Star, Up on the Roof, Coal Miner's Daughter, Stoned Love, Neanderthal Man, El Cóndor Pasa, The Seeker, Mama Told Me Not to Come, I Hear You Knocking, If You Could Read My Mind, Isn't It a Pity, I Think I Love You, O-o-h Child, Memo from Turner, Mother, Uncle John's Band, Truckin', Memory of a Free Festival, Indian Reservation, Woodstock, Darla dirladada, Hello Darlin', No Matter What, Black Night, Hey Hey What Can I Do, Love the One You're With, ABC, My Elusive Dreams, Snowbird, Love on a Two-Way Street, Tell the Truth, You Don't Have to Say You Love Me, Cecilia, The Love You Save, Up the Ladder to the Roof, Tobacco Road, 25 or 6 to 4, Stepping Stone, Take Me to the Pilot, Ride a White Swan, Everything Is Beautiful, Come Running, People Got to Be Free, Yellow River, Blue Money, For You Blue, Somos Novios, Super Bad, Love Grows, Countryfied, Lookin' out My Back Door, The Wonder of You, The Fightin' Side of Me, After Midnight, Apeman, Watching Scotty Grow, Everybody Is a Star, Seven Bridges Road, Gimme Dat Ding, Didn't I, Knock Three Times, It's Only Make Believe, I Never Picked Cotton, If Not for You, If I Were Your Woman, Rainy Night in Georgia, Reach Out and Touch, For the Good Times, Fairies Wear Boots, It's a Shame, The Grunt, Heaven and Hell, Shilo, Travelin' Band, Big Joe Mufferaw, Hurry on Sundown, Knock, Knock Who's There?, How Can I Be Sure, I'm Eighteen, Cracklin' Rosie, The Thrill Is Gone, Together We Can Make Such Sweet Music, Teach Your Children, Ripple, Endlessly, One Less Bell to Answer, Moon Shadow, Border Song, Psychedelic Shack, Is Anybody Goin' to San Antone, Question, Kentucky Rain, Lonely Days, Grandad, United We Stand, Call Me, Thank God and Greyhound, I.O.I.O., A Song of Joy, All for the Love of Sunshine, Everybody's Got the Right to Love, El Triste, The Bells, A Little Bit of Soap, The Ghetto, Rats, Spill the Wine, Groove Me, Make It with You, Down the Dustpipe, Colour My World, Now Be Thankful, Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?, (D...

For all musicians wishing to learn fantastic bass lines. While reading from the book, play along with the bassist on the CD until you feel you've mastered his "feel" and nuances. Then, using the special stereo separation on the CD, switch the bassist off and play along by yourself with just the piano and drums! This book (like all the Aebersold bass line transcription books) is a great study in professional bass line construction, and is a natural companion to the Aebersold Play-A-Longs. Combo instructors can use this book to give their bass students instant, professional bass lines. Includes notes in bass clef with chord symbols above each measure. Several choruses of 2 different blues progressions in ALL 12 KEYS are included. The Ultimate Study in blues walking!

In this classic work of American music writing, renowned critic Albert Murray argues beautifully and authoritatively that "the blues as such are synonymous with low spirits. Not only is its express purpose to make people feel good, which is to say in high spirits, but in the process of doing so it is actually expected to generate a disposition that is both elegantly playful and heroic in its nonchalance." In Stomping the Blues Murray explores its history, influences, development, and meaning as only he can. More than two hundred vintage photographs capture the ambiance Murray evokes in lyrical prose. Only the sounds are missing from this lyrical, sensual tribute to the blues.