Blues
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The Music Lover’s Guide to North America: Museums, Historical Sites, and Other Points of Interest
$26.95 Add to cart- Author: Matyas, Josephine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1493089633
- Language: English
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If You Can Kill It I Can Cook It
$45.00 Add to cartAn idea 50 years in the making, this entertaining cookbook from a cult music legend is chock-full of stories and soul food
Before there was Snoop Dogg, there was Swamp Dogg. Born Jerry Williams Jr., he
- Author: Dogg, Swamp
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1945711213
- Language: English
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How to Play Blues Guitar: The Basics and Beyonds
$26.93 Add to cartHow to Play Blues Guitar gives you vital instruction in blues basics from top guitar teachers and reveals the screts of blues greats, often in their own words. Revised and expanded with 32 pages of ne… [more below]
- Series: Guitar
- Author: Various Authors
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 879309105
- Language: English
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Out of the Blue: Life on the Road with Muddy Waters
$50.00 Add to cartOut of the Blue: Life on the Road with Muddy Waters begins with a moment lifted from a young musician’s dreams. Brian Bisesi, a guitarist barely out of his teens, is invited on stage to fill in for a … [more below]
- Series: American Made Music
- Author: Bisesi, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: March 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1496849841
- Language: English
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Brother Robert: Growing Up with Robert Johnson
$28.00 Add to cartA Rolling Stone-Kirkus Best Music Book of 2020
An intimate memoir by blues legend Robert Johnson’s st
” Brother Robert} book does much to pull the blues master out of the fog of myth.”–Rolling Stone- Author: Anderson, Annye C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 09 2020
- ISBN10: 0306845261
- Language: English
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Dancing with Muddy: Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, and My Lucky Life in and Out of the Blues
$19.99 Add to cartJerry Portnoy grew up in Chicago hearing the blues being played outside his father’s rug store on famed Maxwell Street during the late 1940s and early ’50s.
After dropping out of college, he became- Author: Portnoy, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0897334582
- Language: English
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The Life and Music of Booker Bukka White: Recalling the Blues
$28.00 Add to cartBooker “Bukka” White (1905-1977) was one of the most important blues musicians of the twentieth century. The twelve songs he recorded in Chicago in 1940 are considered to be among the finest in countr… [more below]
- Series: American Made Music
- Author: Johnson, David W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: November 28 2024
- ISBN10: 149685344X
- Language: English
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The Ultimate Book of Blues Guitar Legends: The Players and Guitars That Shaped the Music
$40.00 Add to cartSure to strike a chord with guitarists and blues fans, this authoritative and photo-filled volume includes over 150 of the genre’s greatest players and performers from the prewar era to present.
From- Author: Prown, Pete
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0760387567
- Language: English
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Down on the Corner: Adventures in Busking & Street Music
$24.95 Add to cartDown On The Corner is the story of music performed on the streets, in subways, in parks, in schoolyards, on the back of flatbed trucks, and beyond, from the 1920s to the present day.
One day around 197
- Author: Baker, Cary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1916829104
- Language: English
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Looking to Get Lost: Adventures in Music and Writing
$18.99 Read moreBy the bestselling author of Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock ‘n’ Roll and Last Train the Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley, this dazzling new book of profiles is a culmination of Peter Guraln… [more below]
- Author: Guralnick, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0316412600
- Language: English
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Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music
$21.99 Read moreIn this “expertly researched, elegantly written, dispassionate yet thoughtful history” (Gary Giddins), award-winning author Ted Gioia gives us “the rare combination of a tome that is both deeply infor… [more below]
- Author: Gioia, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0393337502
- Language: English
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Frankie Finds the Blues
$17.99 Read moreAfter attending a concert with his grandmother, Frankie finds his guitar, determined to learn to fingerpick and, with the help of a homeless man, begins to play the blues.
- Author: Harper, Joel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: January 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0971425477
- Language: English
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B.B. King: From Indianola to Icon: A Personal Odyssey with the “King of the Blues”
$45.00 Read moreThis book documents a great American story, that of B.B. King, the “King of the Blues,” and one of America’s most important popular musicians. With fascinating images and history–most published for t… [more below]
- Author: Sawyer, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 0764363859
- Language: English
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King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B.B. King
$20.00 Read moreThe first full and authoritative biography of an American–indeed a world-wide–musical and cultural legend.
“No one worked harder than B.B. No one inspired more up-and-coming artists. No one did more
- Author: de Vise, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0802158064
- Language: English
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Blues from Laurel Canyon: My Life as a Bluesman
$28.99 Add to cartWith an incredible blues career spanning over sixty years, which rightly earning him the title “The Godfather of British Blues,” John shares his experiences and encounters in what will be a must read
- Author: Mayall, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1785581783
- Language: English
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Chasing the Blues: A Traveler’s Guide to America’s Music
$39.50 Add to cartA fusion of history, culture, and song in a practical travel guide for music lovers who want to understand more of what helped shape what they are seeing, hearing, and experiencing as they tour the cr
- Author: Matyas, Josephine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1493060600
- Language: English
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Deeper Blues: The Life, Songs, and Salvation of Cornbread Harris
$22.95 Read moreThe emotional, epic story of James “Cornbread” Harris–a self-proclaimed “blessed dude” and one of Minneapolis’s most influential musicians
From the heart of the Minnesota blues comes the story of Ja- Author: Swensson, Andrea
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: August 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1517915023
- Language: English
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Beale Street Dynasty: Sex, Song, and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis
$17.99 Add to cartBetween Reconstruction and Prohibition, Beale Street in Memphis thrived as a strip with a unique soul that reshaped American culture. Preston Lauterbach recounts the rise and fall of Beale Street thro
- Author: Lauterbach, Preston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0393352137
- Language: English
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Incurable Blues: The Troubles & Triumph of Blues Legend Hubert Sumlin
$29.98 Add to cartINCURABLE BLUES THE TROUBLES AND TRIUMPH OF BLUES LEGEND HUBERT SUMLIN
- Author: Romano, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: March 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0879308338
- Language: English
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Lost Highway: Journeys and Arrivals of American Musicians
$21.99 Add to cartThis masterful explorationof American roots music–country, rockabilly, and the blues–spotlights the artists who created a distinctly American sound, including Ernest Tubb, Bobby “Blue” Bland, Elvis … [more below]
- Author: Guralnick, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0316332747
- Language: English
