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I Ain't Studdin' YA: My American Blues Story by Bobby Rush
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.60This memoir charts the extraordinary rise to fame of living blues legend, Bobby Rush. Born Emmet Ellis, Jr. in Homer, Louisiana, he adopted the stage name Bobby Rush out of respect for his father, a... -
Making Tracks: A Record Producer's Southern Roots Music Journey by Scott Billington 9781496839152
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46From the 1980s through the early 2000s, a golden era for southern roots music, producer and three-time Grammy winner Scott Billington recorded many of the period's most iconic artists. Working... -
Dick Waterman: A Life in Blues by Tammy L. Turner 9781496822697
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02Growing up in an affluent Jewish family in Plymouth, Massachusetts, Dick Waterman (b. 1935) was a shy, stuttering boy living a world away from the Mississippi Delta. Though he never heard blues music... -
Southern Soul-Blues by David G. Whiteis
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.01Attracting passionate fans primarily among African American listeners in the South, southern soul draws on such diverse influences as the blues, 1960s-era deep soul, contemporary R & B, neosoul, rap,... -
The Storied South: Voices of Writers and Artists by William R. Ferris 9781469607542
Booksplease Price: £33.10The Storied South features the voices--by turn searching and honest, coy and scathing--of twenty-six of the most luminous artists and thinkers in the American cultural firmament, from Eudora Welty,... -
Down On The Corner: Adventures In Busking & Street Music by Cary Baker 9781916829107
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £12.32One day around 1970, my father announced to me that he d like to take me to Maxwell Street Market, an open-air flea market adjacent to Downtown Chicago. He wanted to show me where his parents used to... -
Deep Inside the Blues: Photographs and Interviews by Margo Cooper 9781496847416
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £32.60Deep Inside the Blues collects thirty-four of Margo Cooper's interviews with blues artists and is illustrated with over 160 of her photographs, many published here for the first time. For thirty... -
Chuck Berry: An American Life by RJ Smith 9781913172954
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.50The definitive biography of Chuck Berry, legendary performer and inventor of rock and roll. Best known as the groundbreaking artist behind classics like "Johnny B. Goode," "Maybellene," "You Never... -
Always the Queen: The Denise LaSalle Story by Denise LaSalle
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56Denise LaSalle's journey took her from rural Mississippi to an unquestioned reign as the queen of soul-blues. From her early R&B classics to bold and bawdy demands for satisfaction, LaSalle updated...