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Rollin' and Tumblin': The Postwar Blues Guitarists
by
Jas Obrecht
This is the most comprehensive and insightful study ever published on the pioneers of electric blues guitar - including the great Chicago, Mississippi Delta, Louisiana, Texas and West Coast bluesmen. Rollin' and Tumblin' offers extensive interviews with some of the world's most famous blues guitarists, and poignant profiles of historical blues figures. Following a sweeping...more
Paperback, 456 pages
Published
July 1st 2000
by Backbeat Books
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I'm a big blues fan, so when I stumbled across this book on a library sale shelf several years ago, it was like finding buried treasure. This is a collection of biographical essays on the legendary bluesmen of the 50's and 60's, from Muddy Waters and B.B. King to Otis Rush, Howlin' Wolf, Buddy Guy, and almost two dozen others. Stories of key events in their lives and careers are mixed with interviews and anecdotes shared by friends and bandmates, and sometimes the guitarists themselves (those wh...more
I enjoyed the brief overview of the lives of some of these great guitarists, but the interviews were sometimes tedious.
Chris
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