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Nothing but the Blues: The Music and the Musicians
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Product Description An illustrated history of the blues captures the great variety of this uniquely American music form through vintage photographs and a lively text. National ad/promo. From Publishers Weekly In this extensively illustrated, comprehensive volume, Grammy-winning CD producer Cohn provides an elegant pictoral and intellectual history. In the first of 11 essays, Samuel Charters writes on the roots of the blues; in others, David Evans digs into Texas and Deep South blues and Mark A. Humphrey examines the gospel and urban traditions of the blues. Bruce Basti, Jim O'Neal and Mary Katherine Aldin are among the writers covering such topics as white country blues, the 1960s blues revival and the blues today. Richard K. Spottswood offers an excellent essay on women and the blues. The 325 illustrations include Leadbelly's NYPD rap sheet, recording contracts and rare historic photos of blues performers making their music. Cohen does full justice to this rich and vibrant chapter of American musical history. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal This compilation of 11 articles, edited by Grammy Award-winning blues producer Cohn, examines the beginnings and progress of the blues. The book starts with a penetrating essay by noted blues writer Samuel Chaters, who investigates the origins of the blues. It follows with chapters that clearly, extensively, and intelligently describe early blues in the Deep South and Texas, women and the blues, urban blues, the Sixties blues revival, and such often-neglected aspects of the blues tradition as gospel, Piedmont regional blues, white country blues, and the role of music researchers like John and Alan Lomax. Only chapters about the current blues scene and rhythm and blues offer disappointingly superficial treatment. Lavishly illustrated, well researched, and written in a lively style, this book should become a standard on the topic for both the general public and scholars. Recommended for most collections. The publisher is releasing a limited edition of this work that includes a compact disc.--Ed. - David Szatmary, Univ. of Washington, Seattle Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. Review [R]ich in photographs and other graphic mementos. . . . Boldly designed and conceived, [it is] rich enough to be considered [a] coffee table [book] but the thorough histories, biographies, discographies and other reference materials . . . qualify [it] as far more than the usual picture book. -- Belle Magazine, Winter '98
