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Language: en
Pages: 304
Authors: Billy Boy Arnold
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-11-19 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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"Billy Boy Arnold, born in 1935, is one of the few native Chicagoans who both cultivated a career in the blues and stayed in Chicago. His perspective on Chicago
Harmonicas, Harps, and Heavy Breathers
Language: en
Pages: 388
Authors: Kim Field
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

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The harmonica is one of the most important, yet overlooked, instruments in music. This definitive volume celebrates the history of the world's most popular musi
Moanin' at Midnight
Language: en
Pages: 585
Authors: James Segrest
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-11-28 - Publisher: Pantheon

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Howlin’ Wolf was a musical giant in every way. He stood six foot three, weighed almost three hundred pounds, wore size sixteen shoes, and poured out his darke
Bitten by the Blues
Language: en
Pages: 346
Authors: Bruce Iglauer
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-19 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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It started with the searing sound of a slide careening up the neck of an electric guitar. In 1970, twenty-three-year-old Bruce Iglauer walked into Florence’s
Say No to the Devil
Language: en
Pages: 358
Authors: Ian Zack
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-04-10 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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“Finally, the biography that Rev. Davis deserves. Ian Zack takes ‘Blind Gary’ out of the footnotes and into the footlights of the history of American musi