Blues People

Reducere. In Songbooks, critic and scholar Eric Weisbard offers a critical guide to books on American popular music from William Billings's 1770 New-England ...

Reducere. Mamie Smith's pathbreaking 1920 recording of Crazy Blues set the pop music world on fire, inaugurating a new African American market for race recor...

DescriptionSome call it the blues or a storm in their head. William Styron referred to it as "darkness visible." Whatever the description, depressi...

Reducere. Mention Woody Guthrie, and people who know the name are likely to think of the "Okie Bard, " dust storms behind him, riding a boxcar or walking a r...

Reducere. Ernest C. Withers was one of the most prominent African-American photographers of the civil rights era. During the course of his work, he took thou...

Reducere. Development Drowned and Reborn is a "Blues geography" of New Orleans, one that compels readers to return to the history of the Black freedom strugg...

Reducere. In this sequel to Long Title: Looking for the Good Times; Examining the Monkees' Songs, One By One, authors Michael A. Ventrella and Mark Arnold lo...

Almost 30 years after his death, Elvis Presley remains one of the most influential performers and recognized pop culture icons the world over. His ...

Reducere. Celebrate of the history and significance of both the Fender Telecaster and Stratocaster for the company's 75th anniversary in this combined editio...

This is the 19th book from author and popular music historian Harvey Kubernik. His comprehensive compilation of interviews and conversations with r...

Reducere. Mamie Smith's pathbreaking 1920 recording of Crazy Blues set the pop music world on fire, inaugurating a new African American market for race recor...

Reducere. Considered by many to be a founder of Afrofuturism, Sun Ra--aka Herman Blount--was a composer, keyboardist, bandleader, philosopher, entrepreneur, ...

Reducere. Many of the architects of rock and roll in the 1950s, including Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Little Richard, were Southerners who were roote...

Reducere. Vinyl 1Side A: Speak (That's What Happened) - 12: 27Star People - 9: 21Side B: What It Is - 6: 58It Gets Better - 12: 25Vinyl 2Side C: Hopscotch - ...

Contributor(s): Author: Adam GussowThe devil is the most charismatic and important figure in the blues tradition. He's not just the music's namesak...

Reducere. Side A1. Black Meditation 2. Call It A European Paradox 3. Ital Is Vital 4. Memories Don't Live Like People DoSide B5. Ritual Awakening 6. Explore ...

"That instrument he plays - when you hear it recorded correctly or live in a room, it has a tremendous comforting resonance and a hypnotic feeling....

Reducere. Vinyl 1: Side AYou Ain't the ProblemRollingI've Been DazedSide BPiano Joint (This Kind of Love) (Intro)Piano Joint (This Kind of Love)Another Human...

Reducere. CD 1: Santana - 13: 06Minor Ninths, Part 1 - 3: 12Minor Ninths, Part 2 - 4: 32Celestial Blues, Part 1 - 8: 04Celestial Blues, Part 2 - 4: 00Celesti...

In Songbooks, critic and scholar Eric Weisbard offers a critical guide to books on American popular music from William Billings's 1770 New-England ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Adirondack region has long been a favorite of skiers, as its beautiful mountains and deep snow cover provide it with the perfect lan...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Adirondack region has long been a favorite of skiers, as its beautiful mountains and deep snow cover provide it with the perfect lan...

A self-described "song-hunter, " the folklorist Alan Lomax traveled the Mississippi Delta in the 1930's and '40s, armed with primitive recording eq...

Reducere. In SOMEWHERE OUT THERE: ALIENS AND UFOs, Dr. Meinberg takes the reader on an up-to-date tour of 35 topics that surround the vast subject of Ufology...

Reducere. DescriptionA runaway bestseller in Sweden that has sold more than a million copies worldwide, Surrounded by Idiots shares a simple, revolutionary m...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Joe Nick PatoskiWillie Nelson has spent the last 30 years on that higher plane of celebrity where he signifies many things ...

Reducere. A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 title In the late 1960s, with popular culture hurtling forward on the sounds of rock music, some brave mus...

In writing his Self-Portrait of Black America, anthropologist, folklorist, and humanist John Gwaltney went in search of "Core Black People"--the or...

Reducere. When it was first published in 2003, Rebel Musics sought to explore how musical activism resonates as resistance to the dominant culture, and how p...

Side AThese Arms of Mine - Otis ReddingWonderful World - Sam CookStand By Me - Ben E. KingYour Heart Belongs to Me - The Supremes & Diana RossI Jus...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Jas ObrechtObrecht, editor of Guitar Player Magazine, and several other blues scholars and journalists, join forces to pres...

Reducere. Born in South LA: 100 Remarkable African Americans Who Were Born, Raised, Lived or Died in South LA documents the stories, struggles, accomplishmen...

Reducere. Funk: It's the only musical genre ever to have transformed the nation into a throbbing army of bell-bottomed, hoop-earringed, rainbow-Afro'd warrio...

"A 'landmark book.'"--The New York Times*When the dark days of winter approach, do you feel sluggish and slow? Is it a struggle to get out of bed e...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Julia WattsEditor: Larry SmithAuthor: Chris OffuttIn turbulent times, what we need is possibility, and in this rich gatheri...

An intimate memoir by blues legend Robert Johnson's stepsister, including new details about his family, music, influences, tragic death, and musica...

The good news on beating the blues Do you want the good, the bad, or the best news first? OK, the bad news is that an estimated 264 million people ...

From backwoods bars and small-town dives to swampside dance halls and converted clapboard barns, Louisiana Saturday Night offers an anecdotal histo...

Reducere. Poetry. African & African American Studies. Cynthia Manick's BLUE HALLELUJAHS bring us to a broil like Koko Taylor's 'white-toothed love coils on r...

Reducere. Like the figures in the ancient oral literature of Native Americans, children who lived through the American Indian boarding school experience beca...

Reducere. "Chasing the Rising Sun" is the story of an American musical journey told by a prize-winning writer who traced one song in its many incarnations as...

The tale of two very unlikely partners in crime set in New York City's Roaring Twenties. Nola is a poor white girl living on the streets who has le...

Reducere. This first-ever LGBTQ history book of its kind for young adults will appeal to fans of fun, empowering pop-culture books like Rad American Women A-...

Reducere. An Aboriginal ceremony of Welcome to Country is depicted for the first time in a stunning picture book from two Indigenous Australians. Welcome to ...

Reducere. A RIVETING MYSTERY SET IN THE SIZZLING HEAT OF A FLORIDA SUMMER When his girlfriend's body is discovered on the balcony of his condo overlooking th...

Reducere. 1. Too Many People 2. 3 Legs 3. Ram On 4. Dear Boy 5. Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey 6. Smile Away 7. Heart Of The Country 8. Monkberry Moon Delight...

Reducere. This vivid celebration of blues and early rock 'n' roll includes some of the first and most illuminating profiles of such blues masters as Muddy Wa...

Reducere. On the south side of Chicago in the late 1940s, two immigrants; one a Jew born in Russia, the other a black blues singer from Mississippi; met and ...

Reducere. A powerful, family-based approach to understanding and treating depression that goes way beyond ProzacMany people have been led to believe that dep...

This new journey of mine into the "wild" outside the church began with the growing realization that perhaps I was not really cut out to be a church...

Reducere. As a young boy growing up in North Carolina, Romare Bearden listened to his great-grandmother’s Cherokee stories and heard the whistle of the train...

Reducere. The volume brings together two previously published novellas by Richard Wagamese, Him Standing and The Next Sure Thing, with a foreword from author...

Amber Communications Group, Inc.'s imprint Colossus Books has published Before the Legend: The Rise of New Kids on the Block and...a Guy Named Maur...

Reducere. It's the summer of 1988 in northeastern Kansas, an area home to four prisons that has been shaken by the recent escape of a convict. But for two yo...

Reducere. What if preachers were as contagiously joyful in their preaching as Louis Armstrong was in his playing and singing? As rich in their sermonic rende...

Reducere. Pardon My Heart is an exploration of love in the contemporary African American consciousness. Marcus Jackson's poetry examines the heritage of the ...

Reducere. 1. Various Artists - These Arms of Mine2. Various Artists - Unchain My Heart3. Various Artists - I Call It Pretty Music But the Old People Call It ...

Reducere. Dan Lewis' life story is a collage of sounds, people, and places that evoke tears, laughter, and nostalgia. Despite being confined to a wheelchair ...

Reducere. "William Boyle does for the small damaged towns of New York what Nelson Algren did for Chicago: he makes the streets sing with piss-pot poetry and ...

Reducere. Winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award (2012) Smart, grounded, and lyrical, Evie Shockley's the new black integrates powerful ideas about "black...

Reducere. CD: 1Used to BeI'm Not Awake YetDon't Know Where I'm GoingMaybe I WillWhole Lot of PeopleIn Your TownShould've Learnt My LessonThere's a LightOut o...

DescriptionAgainst a backdrop of social unrest and protests The Rolling Stones entered 1969 as a successful blues band that had experimented with p...

DescriptionHow do you sum up a whole country in just 100 words? This striking book takes on the challenge From amendment to Vegas, each of the care...

Recipient of the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction Lauded for her "astute and engrossing" (People) writing style imbued with "originality ga...

Reducere. She's newly single and determined to never fall for a military man again.He's a sexy officer who doesn't believe in love.And they think they can ha...

Reducere. Life is beautiful! Life is wondrous! Every star above is shining just for us! GRAMMY(R) Award-winning artist Keb' Mo' brings one of his beloved son...

Reducere. "Bush Blues marks the debut of an Alaskan crime solver as true and flawed as the state itself." --Tom Begich, Alaska Senator Police Chief Brady Sno...

Reducere. CD: 1 1. Rough God Goes Riding 2. Fire In the Belly 3. This Weight 4. Waiting Game 5. Piper at the Gates of Dawn 6. Burning Ground 7. It Once Was M...

Disc 1 Side A: 1. People 2. Rolling In The Deep (The Aretha Version) 3. Midnight Train To Georgia 4. I Will Survive (The Aretha Version) 5. At Last...

Reducere. In this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Aretha Franklin, ...