Blues Singers [NC LIVE HomeGrown Ebook Collection via Biblioboard] : Biographies of 50 Legendary Artists of the Early 20th Century

This reference volume is intended for both the casual and the most avid blues fan. It is divided into five separately introduced sections and covers 50 artists with names like Muddy, Gatemouth and Hound Dog who helped shape 20th-century American music. Beginning with the pioneering Mississippi Delta bluesmen, the book then follows the spread of the genre to the city, in the section on the Chicago Blues School. The third segment covers the Texas blues tradition; the fourth, the great blueswomen; and the fifth, the genre's development outside its main schools. The styles covered range from Virginia-Piedmont to Bentonia and from barrelhouse to boogie-woogie. The main text is augmented by substantial discographies and a lengthy bibliography. "This book covers 50 artists born before 1940. Author David Dicaire writes about both male and female artists from the Mississippi Delta, the Chicago blues school, and the Texas tradition, as well as those who developed the genre outside the main schools. Detailed biographies and selected discographies for each musician make this a fact-filled reference for every blues fan's shelf."--BOOK JACKET. ""Extensive profiles...essential for blues collections...useful...recommended""""--Choice; ""a good and interesting introduction to blues greats""--ARBA. This reference volume is divided into five separately introduced sections and covers 50 artists with names like Muddy, Gatemouth and Hound Dog who helped shape 20th-century American music. This reference volume is intended for both the casual as well as the most avid blues fan. It is divided into five separately introduced sections and covers 50 artists with names like Muddy, Gatemouth and Hound Dog who helped shape 20th-century American music. Profiles the lives and musical careers of fifty blues singers born before 1940