ChicagoBluesHistory Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Chicago blues researcher exploring blues music with a worldwide audience. Author of Marrow Bones and Cleaver Music. Born on the South Side. @martyweil
Fleetwood Mac in Chicago: The Legendary Chess Blues Session, January 4, 1969
Jeff LowenthalChicagoBluesHistoryPeter Green's @fleetwoodmac made a pilgrimage to Chicago's Chess Studios on 1-4-69. Photographer Jeff Lowenthal has produced a book titled, "Fleetwood Mac in Chicago: The Legendary Chess Blues Session," which comes out in November. #newbooks #photography #music @bluesheaven2120 https://t.co/rkwU7PO5YM
Hardcover, 2022
$39.99$20.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
History: A Very Short Introduction
John H. ArnoldChicagoBluesHistoryVivian Carter and Jimmy Bracken were the “Vee” and “Jay” in Vee-Jay Records, at one time the largest black-owned record company in the world. Vee-Jay was renowned for recording blues classics by Jimmy Reed, John Lee Hooker, Billy Boy Arnold, and others. #music #history #photo https://t.co/8dnoIvQtja
Paperback, 2000
$12.99$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies: Stories
John MurrayChicagoBluesHistory@bluezharp John Lee Hooker's biographer Charles Shaar Murray wrote the rarest of blues life stories: one with a happy ending. JLH died rich and famous.
Paperback, 2004
$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Invisible Man
Ralph EllisonChicagoBluesHistoryThe blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others, or by one’s own human failing. —Ralph Ellison, author of “Invisible Man” (1952) #quotes #music #book https://t.co/bnG7FRk1JO
Paperback, 1995
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Midnight at the Barrelhouse: The Johnny Otis Story
George LipsitzChicagoBluesHistory@prolixmusic_ Recommend reading "Midnight At The Barrelhouse: The Johnny Otis Story" by George Lipsitz.
Paperback, 2013
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Musical Instruments: History, Technology, and Performance of Instruments of Western Music
Murray CampbellChicagoBluesHistoryIn a Chicago pawn shop, like Ray’s Music Exchange in the Blues Brothers #movie, Billy Boy Arnold first met Junior Wells and the Myers brothers (The Aces) buying used musical instruments. The pawn shop was located at 31st and Indiana. #bluesmusic #History #music https://t.co/EhFGTUupoF
Hardcover, 2004
$590.00$565.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
I Am the Blues: The Willie Dixon Story
Willie DixonChicagoBluesHistorySuperhero/bluesman Willie Dixon saved the day on a tour bus in Europe in the early #1960s. In Dean Alger’s Lonnie Johnson biography, his footnote attributes the “window dustup” story to Dixon’s and Snowden’s book, “I am the Blues: The Willie Dixon Story.”#music #History #book https://t.co/Fey1RawhIs
Paperback, 1990
$21.99$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Original Guitar Hero and the Power of Music: The Legendary Lonnie Johnson, Music, and Civil Rights
Dean AlgerChicagoBluesHistoryCurrently #reading “The Original Guitar Hero and the Power of Music: The Legendary Lonnie Johnson, Music, and Civil Rights”by Dean Alger #books #music #history https://t.co/Mnc6D9TEaW
Hardcover, 2014
$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Woman with Guitar: Memphis Minnie's Blues
Paul GaronChicagoBluesHistoryCurrently #reading “Woman with Guitar: Memphis Minnie's Blues” by Paul and Beth Garon. #books #history #music https://t.co/cl6Lm9QqDl
Paperback, 2014
$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Brother Robert: Growing Up with Robert Johnson
Annye C. AndersonChicagoBluesHistory@BluesArchives The criminally under appreciated Delta bluesman Johnny Shines gets taken down a peg by author Annye Anderson in “Brother Robert.” Anderson claims Shines had vastly exaggerated his working relationship with Johnson “for a few dimes.”
Hardcover, 2020
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book