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Title: Chasin' That Devil Music: Searching for the Blues by Gayle Dean Wardlow, Edward M. Komara ISBN: 0-87930-552-5 Publisher: Backbeat Books Pub. Date: 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.09 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The mystique of early rural blues
Comment: This book IS a reprint of previously published articles, not all of them written by Wardlow (for instance, an interview with Wardlow by other reporters is included), but apparently most of these articles have never appeared in book form. They are fascinating for a reader interested in learning more about how people like Charley Patton and Robert Johnson, long dead, are more celebrated today than would have been imaginable, let alone possible, in their own times. Wardlow was one of the early "investigators" who unearthed obscure recordings and salient information about the musicians who made them. This book is largely an account of that difficult process. Now, when it's relatively easy to hear the complete recorded works of Son House, Blind Willie Johnson, et. al., it's hard to imagine what blues fans had to go through to hear this music 40 years ago. Wardlow's book is a revelation and an inspiration also. The "free" CD is wonderful, too, and worth the price of the book itself.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Blues music resource.
Comment: This book is a reprint of a collection of articles written by blues scholar Gayle Dean Wardlow. The collection contains interviews of blues musicians who helped shaped today's blues music and people who knew artists that no longer lived. The book also contains a CD of rare delta blues recordings made by the artists covered in this book.
Rating: 3
Summary: Definte, interesting, scholarship, good CD
Comment: Whatever you think of Wardlow's own views, this is the kind of definite real scholarship someone who wants to become really knowledgeable about Mississippi blues and its economic and cultural milieu. Despite what various comments are, Wardlow's writing is not overly intellectual, rather it is very factual. It is record collectors and blues lovers like Wardlow in the late 1950s and early 1960s that laid the basis for their being original Delta blues records (and their peers in old time "white" music)to be reissued and who "found" so many of the original blues stars. Wardlow provides a lot of good basic information about the recording practices for the music, and the situations of lots of blues players you may or may not have heard of. These are all articles where he announced his or others work making the discovery. \
One thing to read is his article that clearly illustrates that Robert Johnson never said, thought, or was rumored to have sold his soul to the devil. No one who knew Johnson ever said that. One informant took the story that Tommy Johnson told and told a credulous folk nik "blues expert" this in the 1960s, the rest has become a minor industry.
The CD provided is fun and provides some players most havent heard of. The Western Swing tune about selling the soul to the Devil has beocme part of my performance repertpor!
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Title: The Land Where the Blues Began by Alan Lomax ISBN: 1565847393 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Deep Blues by Robert Palmer ISBN: 0140062238 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Blues from the Delta by William R. Ferris ISBN: 0306803275 Publisher: Da Capo Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1988 List Price(USD): $16.50 |
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Title: Searching for Robert Johnson by Peter Guralnick ISBN: 0452279496 Publisher: Plume Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title:The Search for Robert Johnson ASIN: B000050IKX Publisher: Sony/Columbia Pub. Date: 31 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $9.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $9.98 |
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