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Author | : Gayle Dean Wardlow |
Publisher | : Univ. of Tennessee Press |
Total Pages | : 497 |
Release | : 2022-10-18 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1621906620 |
Born 130 years ago in the heart of Mississippi, Charlie Patton (c. 1891–1934) is considered by many to be a father of the Delta blues. With his bullish baritone voice and his fluid slide guitar touch, Patton established songs like “Pony Blues,” “A Spoonful Blues,” and “High Water Everywhere” in the blues lexicon and, through his imitators, in American music. But over the decades, his contributions to blues music have been overshadowed in popularity by those of Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, and other mid-century bluesmen and women who’ve experienced a resurgence in their music. King of the Delta Blues Singers, originally published in 1988, began a small renaissance in Patton and blues research. And now, with the wide availability of Patton’s complete discography on CD and as digital downloads, this completely revised second edition continues the story of Charlie Patton’s legacy. Gayle Dean Wardlow and the late Stephen Calt (1946–2010) originally probed Patton’s career in the Mississippi Delta, his early performances and recordings, and his musical legacy that continues to influence today’s guitarists and performers, including such musicians as Jack White and Larkin Poe. For this second edition, Wardlow and Edward Komara refined the text and rewrote major sections, updating them with new scholarship on Patton and Delta blues. And finally, Komara has added a new afterword bringing Patton into the contemporary blues conversation and introducing numerous musical examples for the modern researcher and musician. The second edition of King of the Delta Blues Singers will further cement Patton’s legacy among important blues musicians, and it will be of interest to anyone absorbed in the beginnings of the Delta blues and music biographies.
Author | : John Fahey |
Publisher | : Courier Dover Publications |
Total Pages | : 131 |
Release | : 2020-08-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0486843440 |
Noted guitarist John Fahey presents a textual and musicological examination of the music of blues legend Charley Patton. This new edition is enhanced by Fahey's notes from the Grammy-winning, out-of-print box set Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton.
Author | : Ben Wynne |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2014-10-06 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0807157821 |
Born into poverty in Mississippi at the close of the nineteenth century, Charley Patton and Jimmie Rodgers established themselves among the most influential musicians of their era. In Tune tells the story of the parallel careers of these two pioneering recording artists -- one white, one black -- who moved beyond their humble origins to change the face of American music. At a time when segregation formed impassable lines of demarcation in most areas of southern life, music transcended racial boundaries. Jimmie Rodgers and Charley Patton drew inspiration from musical traditions on both sides of the racial divide, and their songs about hard lives, raising hell, and the hope of better days ahead spoke to white and black audiences alike. Their music reflected the era in which they lived but evoked a range of timeless human emotions. As the invention of the phonograph disseminated traditional forms of music to a wider audience, Jimmie Rodgers gained fame as the "Father of Country Music," while Patton's work eventually earned him the title "King of the Delta Blues." Patton and Rodgers both died young, leaving behind a relatively small number of recordings. Though neither remains well known to mainstream audiences, the impact of their contributions echoes in the songs of today. The first book to compare the careers of these two musicians, In Tune is a vital addition to the history of American music.
Author | : Francis Davis |
Publisher | : Hyperion |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1996-02-15 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780786881246 |
In this exciting tie-in to a three-part PBS-TV series, Atlantic music critic Francis Davis presents a remarkable history of the blues that challenges many standard assumptions. Davis presents a fascinating synthesis of cultural commentary, first-rate musical analysis, copious research, and marvelous visuals.
Author | : R. Crumb |
Publisher | : Abrams |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2014-11-26 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1613122527 |
Collectors of illustrator R. Crumb's work prize the music-oriented trading card sets he created in the 1980s. Now they appear together for the first time in book form, along with a CD of music selected and compiled by Crumb himself.
Author | : Marybeth Hamilton |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0786722142 |
Leadbelly, Robert Johnson, Charley Patton-we are all familiar with the story of the Delta blues. Fierce, raw voices; tormented drifters; deals with the devil at the crossroads at midnight. In this extraordinary reconstruction of the origins of the Delta blues, historian Marybeth Hamilton demonstrates that the story as we know it is largely a myth. The idea of something called Delta blues only emerged in the mid-twentieth century, the culmination of a longstanding white fascination with the exotic mysteries of black music. Hamilton shows that the Delta blues was effectively invented by white pilgrims, seekers, and propagandists who headed deep into America's south in search of an authentic black voice of rage and redemption. In their quest, and in the immense popularity of the music they championed, we confront America's ongoing love affair with racial difference.
Author | : John Fahey |
Publisher | : Courier Dover Publications |
Total Pages | : 131 |
Release | : 2020-08-12 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0486847853 |
Noted guitarist John Fahey presents a textual and musicological examination of the music of blues legend Charley Patton. This new edition is enhanced by Fahey's notes from the Grammy-winning, out-of-print box set Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton.
Author | : Stephen Calt |
Publisher | : Chicago Review Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2008-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1556527462 |
Skip James (1902–1969) was perhaps the most creative and idiosyncratic of all blues musicians. Drawing on hundreds of hours of conversations with James himself, Stephen Calt here paints a dark and unforgettable portrait of a man untroubled by his own murderous inclinations, a man who achieved one moment of transcendent greatness in a life haunted by failure. And in doing so, Calt offers new insights into the nature of the blues, the world in which it thrived, and its fate when that world vanished.
Author | : John Fahey |
Publisher | : Drag City |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
John Fahey is feared and revered around the world as a guitar player and composer. His inventions for acoustic and electric strings are the stuff of legend. Known for his finger-picking finesse, Fahey's pen has the same world-gobbling ferocity as his guitar. Fahey's collection of short stories defy classification - part memoir, part personal essay, part fiction, part manifesto. It is a collection that makes an explosive selection of his work available for public consumption. What else is there to say, except 'Grab your ankles, dear readers. It's kingdom time!'
Author | : Gayle Wardlow |
Publisher | : Backbeat Books |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0879305525 |
Traces the development and characteristics of the Delta blues, and describes the most influential blues musicians and recordings of the 1920s and 1930s