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Talking Guitar

Conversations with Musicians Who Shaped Twentieth-Century American Music

By: Jas Obrecht

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Talking Guitar

Conversations with Musicians Who Shaped Twentieth-Century American Music

By: Jas Obrecht

In this lively collection of interviews, storied music writer Jas Obrecht presents a celebration of the world's most popular instrument as seen through the words, lives, and artistry of some of its most beloved players. Readers will read--and hear--accounts of the first guitarists on record, pioneering bluesmen, gospel greats, jazz innovators, country pickers, rocking rebels, psychedelic shape-shifters, singer-songwriters, and other movers and shakers. In their own words, these guitar players reveal how they found their inspirations, mastered their instruments, crafted classic songs, and created enduring solos. Highlights include Nick Lucas's recollections of waxing the first noteworthy guitar records; Ry Cooder's exploration of prewar blues musicians; Carole Kaye and Ricky Nelson on the early years of rock and roll; Stevie Ray Vaughan on Jimi Hendrix; Gregg Allman on his brother, Duane Allman; Carlos Santana, Eric Johnson, and Pops Staples on spirituality in music; Jerry Garcia, Neil Young, and Tom Petty on songwriting and creativity; and early interviews with Eddie Van Halen, Joe Satriani, and Ben Harper.

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UNC Press Books

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1469631652

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9781469631653

Early Blues

The First Stars of Blues Guitar

By: Jas Obrecht

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Early Blues

The First Stars of Blues Guitar

By: Jas Obrecht

Winner of the 2016 Living Blues Award for Blues Book of the Year Since the early 1900s, blues and the guitar have traveled side by side. This book tells the story of their pairing from the first reported sightings of blues musicians, to the rise of nationally known stars, to the onset of the Great Depression, when blues recording virtually came to a halt. Like the best music documentaries, Early Blues: The First Stars of Blues Guitar interweaves musical history, quotes from celebrated musicians (B.B. King, John Lee Hooker, Ry Cooder, and Johnny Winter, to name a few), and a spellbinding array of life stories to illustrate the early days of blues guitar in rich and resounding detail. In these chapters, you’ll meet Sylvester Weaver, who recorded the world’s first guitar solos, and Paramount Records artists Papa Charlie Jackson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and Blind Blake, the “King of Ragtime Blues Guitar.” Blind Willie McTell, the Southeast’s superlative twelve-string guitar player, and Blind Willie Johnson, street-corner evangelist of sublime gospel blues, also get their due, as do Lonnie Johnson, the era’s most influential blues guitarist; Mississippi John Hurt, with his gentle, guileless voice and syncopated fingerpicking style; and slide guitarist Tampa Red, “the Guitar Wizard.” Drawing on a deep archive of documents, photographs, record company ads, complete discographies, and up-to-date findings of leading researchers, this is the most comprehensive and complete account ever written of the early stars of blues guitar—an essential chapter in the history of American music.

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452945659

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9781452945651

Early Blues

The First Stars of Blues Guitar

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The First Stars of Blues Guitar

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Talking Guitar

Conversations with Musicians Who Shaped Twentieth-Century American Music

By: Jas Obrecht

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Stone Free

Jimi Hendrix in London, September 1966–June 1967

By: Jas Obrecht

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Stone Free

Jimi Hendrix in London, September 1966–June 1967

By: Jas Obrecht

A compelling portrait of rock's greatest guitarist at the moment of his ascendance, Stone Free is the first book to focus exclusively on the happiest and most productive period of Jimi Hendrix's life. As it begins in the fall of 1966, he's an under-sung, under-accomplished sideman struggling to survive in New York City. Nine months later, he's the toast of Swinging London, a fashion icon, and the brightest star to step off the stage at the Monterey International Pop Festival. This momentum-building, day-by-day account of this extraordinary transformation offers new details into Jimi's personality, relationships, songwriting, guitar innovations, studio sessions, and record releases. It explores the social changes sweeping the U.K., Hendrix's role in the dawning of "flower power," and the prejudice he faced while fronting the Jimi Hendrix Experience. In addition to featuring the voices of Jimi, his bandmates, and other eyewitnesses, Stone Free draws extensively from contemporary accounts published in English- and foreign-language newspapers and music magazines. This celebratory account is a must-read for Hendrix fans.

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UNC Press Books

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1469647079

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Stone Free

Jimi Hendrix in London, September 1966–June 1967

By: Jas Obrecht

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Jimi Hendrix in London, September 1966–June 1967

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Stone Free

By: Jas Obrecht

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By: Jas Obrecht

Stone Free : Jimi Hendrix, de Londres à Monterey, est le premier livre à s’intéresser exclusivement à la période la plus heureuse et la plus prolifique de la vie de l’artiste. À ses débuts, en 1966, il n’avait rien d’un musicien accompli, neuf mois plus tard, il est une icône du Swinging London ; puis l’une des stars les plus importanres à participer au festival international de Monterey. Ce livre retrace l’ascencion fulgurante de ce génie incontestable de la musique du XXe siècle. Jas Obrecht offre des détails inédits sur Jimi Hendrix, ses rencontres, ses compositions ou encore ses enregistrements en studio. Jas Obrecht est un critique musical, distingué par plusieurs prix. Il travaille pour Guitar Player, et a collaboré entre autres à Rolling Stone, Living Blues. Il est l’auteur de Talking Guitar: Conversation with Musicians Who Shaped Twentieth-Century American Music. Il vit dans le Michigan.

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Le Castor Astral éditeur

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