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The Blues Dream of Billy Boy Arnold

By: Billy Boy Arnold,Kim Field

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The Blues Dream of Billy Boy Arnold

By: Billy Boy Arnold,Kim Field

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's music, people, and places is rare and valuable. Arnold has worked with generations of musicians-from Tampa Red and Howlin' Wolf and to Muddy Waters and Paul Butterfield-on countless recordings, witnessing the decline of country blues, the dawn of electric blues, the onset of blues-inspired rock, and more. Here, with writer Kim Field, he gets it all down on paper-including the story of how he named Bo Diddley Bo Diddley"--

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University of Chicago Press

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022680920X

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9780226809205

The Blues Dream of Billy Boy Arnold

By: Billy Boy Arnold,Kim Field

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The Blues Dream of Billy Boy Arnold

By: Billy Boy Arnold,Kim Field

The frank, funny, and unforgettable autobiography of a living legend of Chicago blues. Simply put, Billy Boy Arnold is one of the last men standing from the Chicago blues scene’s raucous heyday. What’s more, unlike most artists in this electrifying melting pot, who were Southern transplants, Arnold—a harmonica master who shared stages with Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, and Howlin’ Wolf, plus a singer and hitmaker in his own right who first recorded the standards “I Wish You Would” and “I Ain’t Got You”—was born right here and has lived nowhere else. This makes his perspective on Chicago blues, its players, and its locales all the rarer and all the more valuable. Arnold has witnessed musical generations come and go, from the decline of prewar country blues to the birth of the electric blues and the worldwide spread of rock and roll. Working here in collaboration with writer and fellow musician Kim Field, he gets it all down. The Blues Dream of Billy Boy Arnold is a remarkably clear-eyed testament to more than eighty years of musical love and creation, from Arnold’s adolescent quest to locate the legendary Sonny Boy Williamson, the story of how he named Bo Diddley Bo Diddley, and the ups and downs of his seven-decade recording career. Arnold’s tale—candidly told with humor, insight, and grit—is one that no fan of modern American music can afford to miss.

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University of Chicago Press

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022680934X

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9780226809342

A Savior Worth Having

By: Billy Graham Evangelistic Association,Edward Victor Hill

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A Savior Worth Having

By: Billy Graham Evangelistic Association,Edward Victor Hill

This is a collection of sermons delivered over the years that paint an amazing picture of the Savior, Jesus Christ.

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180

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1593280033

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9781593280031

Writing the Romantic Comedy

From "Cute Meet" to "Joyous Defeat": How To Write Screenplays That Sell

By: Billy Mernit

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Writing the Romantic Comedy

From "Cute Meet" to "Joyous Defeat": How To Write Screenplays That Sell

By: Billy Mernit

From the slapstick shenanigans of Hepburn and Grant in Bringing Up Baby to the sexy repartee of Shakespeare in Love, romantic comedies have delighted filmgoers -- and challenged screenwriters -- since Hollywood's Golden Age. Whether you're a first time screenwriter, or an intermediate marooned in the rewriting process, this thoroughly charming and insightful guide to the basics of crafting a winning script will take you step by step from "cute meet" all the way to "joyous defeat." You'll learn the screenwriting secrets behind some of the funniest scenes ever written; how to create characters and dialogue that set the sparks flying; why some bedroom scenes sizzle and others fall flat; and much more. Writing the Romantic Comedy features case studies drawn from beloved romantic comedies such as When Harry Met Sally, Annie Hall, Tootsie, and The Lady Eve, as well as field-tested writing exercises guaranteed to short-circuit potential mistakes and ensure inspiration.

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Harper Collins

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0060935030

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9780060935030

The Golden Game

By: Billy Packer,Roland Lazenby

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The Golden Game

By: Billy Packer,Roland Lazenby

This book covers the hot shots, great moments and classic stories from basketball's first 100 years.

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256

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Taylor Publishing Company (TX)

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0878330283

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9780878330287

BluesSpeak

Best of the Original Chicago Blues Annual

By: Lincoln T Beauchamp

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Best of the Original Chicago Blues Annual

By: Lincoln T Beauchamp

This incomparable anthology collects articles, interviews, fiction, and poetry from the Original Chicago Blues Annual, one of music history's most significant periodical blues publications. Founded and operated from 1989 to 1995 by African American musician and entrepreneur Lincoln T. Beauchamp Jr., OCBA gave voice to the blues community and often frankly addressed contentious issues within the blues such as race, identity, prejudice, wealth, gender, and inequity. OCBA often expressed an explicitly black perspective, but its contributors were a mix of black and white, American and international. Likewise, although OCBA's roots and main focus were in Chicago, Beauchamp's vision for the publication (and his own activities as a blues performer and promoter) embraced an international dimension, reflecting a broad diversity of blues audiences and activities in locations as farflung as Iceland, Poland, France, Italy, and South Africa. This volume includes key selections from OCBA's seven issues and features candid interviews with blues luminaries such as Koko Taylor, Eddie Boyd, Famoudou Don Moye, Big Daddy Kinsey, Lester Bowie, Junior Wells, Billy Boy Arnold, Herb Kent, Barry Dolins, and many more. Also featured are heartfelt memorials to bygone blues artists, insightful observations on the state of the blues in Chicago and beyond, and dozens of photographs of performers, promoters, and other participants in the worldwide blues scene.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252056957

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9780252056956

Book's by Billy Boy Arnold

The Blues Dream of Billy Boy Arnold

The Blues Dream of Billy Boy Arnold

The Blues Dream of Billy Boy Arnold

The Blues Dream of Billy Boy Arnold

A Savior Worth Having

A Savior Worth Having

Writing the Romantic Comedy

Writing the Romantic Comedy

The Golden Game

The Golden Game

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