Literary Question

[jaywatterworth]

And there's this guy, Dick Waterman, whose Between Midnight and Day has
incredible photos of many of the masters as well as newer bluespeople as
well.  His personal recollections of the shots are priceless.

Jay

Jay Watterworth, PhD
Department of Sociology
University of Colorado at Boulder
Metropolitan State College, Denver

When the mode of the music changes, the walls of the city quake. - Plato

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From: "Steve Hoffman" <steve@goodnote.com>
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Subject: Re: Literary Question


> Absolutely NOTE "Land Where Blues Began."
>
> Robert Palmer's "Deep Blues" is a great read.  My first choice for the
> nephew. It is not academic at all.  Palmer was a journalist, not an
> academic.
>
> For coffee-table size books that are full of well-written chapters about
> different aspects of blues, and great graphics, photos etc:
> Bill Wyman's "Blues Odyssey"
> and Larry Cohn, ed "Nothing But the Blues"
>
> Steve Hoffman
>
>
> Walter Potter wrote:
>
> >I think Robert Palmer's "Deep Blues" is a fine place to start. I didn't
find it too academic at all. It was the first book solely devoted to the
blues that I read. I found "The Land Where the Blues Began" boring and a bit
too self-absorbed. For more narrow views of the blues, "The Search for
Robert Johnson" is a nice quick read, Honeyboy Edwards' "The World Don't Owe
Me Nothin'" is great and both the Muddy Waters' biography "I can't be
satisfied" and the new Howling Wolf biography, "Moanin' at Midnight" are
interesting but maybe a bit too detailed for a newbie. I seem to remember
that there is a book titled "Country Blues" which might more closely suit
his current interests but I don't remember who wrote it and don't know how
good it is. A trip to Amazon.com might help.
> >--
> >maxdog
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>I have a 19-year-old nephew who's become fascinated with the blues. He
> >>discovered 60s-era folk singers at art school - Phil Ochs, early Dylan,
> >>Tom Rush, etc. and worked his way back to Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly. I
> >>introduced him to the blues by sneaking him into local clubs, and he
> >>decided to go back to the beginning in that genre too and has been
> >>listening to Son House, John Hurt and Fred McDowell. I'd like to get him
> >>a book for Christmas and am wondering what would be the best one in
> >>terms of history. Deep Blues? The Land Where Blues Began? Lost Highway?
> >>Any input would be appreciated.
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>Mary Lou Sullivan
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