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Book Cover for: The Blues: A Visual History: 100 Years of Music That Changed the World, Mike Evans

The Blues: A Visual History: 100 Years of Music That Changed the World

Mike Evans

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Charting the history of the blues from its rural roots in the American South and focusing on the key musicians and singers who brought it recognition worldwide, The Blues: A Visual History is a unique and fully illustrated account of the development of the blues. This deceptively simple, 12-bar musical form has become the common denominator that has driven the popular music of the last hundred years. As John Lee Hooker put it: "The music we play . . . that music is the roots. Rock music, everything else, is like a branch on the same tree. It all comes from the blues."
  • 350 stunning photographs and illustrations
  • A wealth of archive photography
  • Rare graphic memorabilia
  • Foreword by Marshall Chess, veteran record producer with his family's legendary Chicago rhythm-and-blues label, Chess Records
Author Mike Evans is a musician, editor, and author whose books include the best-selling Elvis: A Celebration, and Ray Charles: The Birth of Soul. Consultant editor Robert Gordon is a Grammy Award-winning writer and filmmaker specializing in the music of the American south, and Scott Barretta is a blues specialist writer, broadcaster, and lecturer.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
  • Publish Date: Jul 28th, 2020
  • Pages: 272
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 11.00in - 9.90in - 1.00in - 3.65lb
  • EAN: 9780764359750
  • Categories: • Genres & Styles - Blues• History & Criticism - General• Individual Composer & Musician

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About the Author

Evans, Mike: - Mike Evans is a musician, editor, and author whose books include the bestselling Elvis: A Celebration, and Ray Charles: The Birth of Soul. Consultant editor Robert Gordon is a Grammy Award-winning writer and filmmaker specializing in the music of the American south, and Scott Barretta is a blues specialist writer, broadcaster, and lecturer.
Barretta, Scott: - Scott Barretta is a writer/researcher for the Mississippi Blues Trail, and an instructor of sociology and anthropology at the University of Mississippi.

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