From the rear cover
The Blues, that unique form of African-American music, continues to hold a fascination with each successive generation of young people. Scots-born Londoner Robert Nicholson is just one such person. Grabbed first as a teenager by the white blues sounds of the Rolling Stones and George Thorogood, he quickly became aware of the real roots of the Blues. Inspired by the great Chicago musicians Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and B.B. King, and the Mississippi Blues originators Robert Johnson and Charlie Patton, the author embarked on a journey to trace the roots of the electric sounds of Chicago's Chess record label back to the Mississippi Delta itself, the birthplace of the Blues.
Together with Memphis-based photographer Logan Young, Robert Nicholson has conducted a series of extended field trips to the South. Their travels have brought them into contact with the Blues musicians of today. This book presents in words and images a behind-the-scenes, often intimate, portrait of the main players on the current Delta Blues scene, including Lonnie Pitchford, Booba Barnes, Scott Dunbar, Son Thomas, and others.
This important book gives a vivid account of an economically impoverished people and examines the often brittle conviviality, hidden racial tensions, and undercurrents of violence from which the Blues has grown and in which it continues to thrive. The stunning, original photographs by Logan Young enhance Nicholson's informative, entertaining, and thought-provoking text. Together they present a unique sociological and musical picture of the Mississippi Blues, and of the ways it has endured and evolved in contemporary America.Details
- Title Mississippi Blues Today
- Author Stuart Nicholson
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 196
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Da Capo Press, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A
- Date 1999-05-07
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780306808838 / 0306808838
- Weight 1.12 lbs (0.51 kg)
- Dimensions 9.66 x 7.43 x 0.52 in (24.54 x 18.87 x 1.32 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Deep South
- Cultural Region: Mid-South
- Cultural Region: South
- Geographic Orientation: Mississippi
- Library of Congress subjects Blues musicians - Mississippi, Blues (Music) - Mississippi - History and
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98040012
- Dewey Decimal Code 781.643
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