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Title: All Music Guide to the Blues: The Experts' Guide to the Best Blues Recordings (All Music Guide Series) by Michael Erlewine, Vladimir Bogdanov, Chris Woodstra, Cub Koda ISBN: 0879304243 Publisher: Backbeat Books Pub. Date: 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.71
Rating: 5
Summary: A Valuable Tool
Comment: This book (encyclopedia) gives a description of, and rates nearly every quality blues recording available. Contains detailed histories of the lives of thousands of blues artists.
Contains detailed essays on the roots of the blues, the evolution, and different styles of blues, such as Delta, Chicago, Piedmont, West Coast.....And also has music maps showing the influences on different styles of blues, as well as describing the most influential artist in each respective style.
I don't buy an album without consulting this, or the jazz edition. This blues edition is so comprehensive it even delves into gospel, jazz, and a bit of soul music.
Full of great information. I am sure that this is the best blues encyclopedia available.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great/helpful/got everything
Comment: this book it's very well written. Got lots of essays on every blues styles and sub-styles, very well written too. Got lots of music maps for almost all of the essays, very well traced. Got lots of helpful and factfiled info about each entry, and a very helpful and great reviews on each artist albums...nothing to tell more about it. Here you learn a little about blues history, you learn about the blues records and wich ones do you chose, and the artists bios...
Rating: 4
Summary: Comprehensive, Concise Lexicon of the Blues
Comment: This alphabetically arranged Lexicon helps readers to make sense of the dizzying list of blues artists who have contributed to thise body of music. The book is fairly broad and includes many crossover type bands (blues derivation of Rock, for example), with a brief history and list of essential recordings from each artist.
I expected the book to be somewhat more "readable" rather than a catalogue of artists; however, it is useful as the latter. You will not be disappointed with the volume, and you will probably pull it out frequently when shopping for blues music, reviewing artists heard on public radio's blues shows, or when browsing the internet for non-copyrighted blues recordings (many of the oldest recordings are in public domain).
The price also makes it worthwhile. If it guides you toward a single, more satisfying blues recording (or helps you avoid a single stinker), then it's paid for itself.
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Title: Deep Blues by Robert Palmer ISBN: 0140062238 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 1995 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Big Book of Blues: A Biographical Encyclopedia by Robert Santelli ISBN: 0141001453 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 2001 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Musichound Blues: The Essential Album Guide by Leland Rucker, Tim Schuller, Al Kooper ISBN: 0825672678 Publisher: Schirmer Books Pub. Date: 2002 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Can't Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters by Robert Gordon ISBN: 0316328499 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 2002 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: All Music Guide to the Blues: The Definitive Guide to the Blues by Vladimir Bogdanov, Chris Woodstra, Stephen Thomas Erlewine ISBN: 0879307366 Publisher: Backbeat Books Pub. Date: 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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