Bøger om Blues

Én af landets mest populære sangskrivere sætter ord på sit livs lyse nætter med musik, skæve Dalton-dage, kvinder og lidenskab men også et liv med dystre dage, dæmoniske drukture og en evigt, borende længsel. Lars Lilholt fortæller sin egen families historie og giver et enestående indblik i, hvad der har formet mennesket bag Danmarks største kærlighedssang "Kald det Kærlighed." "På scenen var min fornemmelse og timing fantastisk, men i privatlivet var alt kaos. Der skulle stadig gå mange år, før jeg lærte, at man må og skal lægge sine inderste drømme ud for hinandens fødder. Man skal turde lægge sine sorte huller frem i lyset. Derude er deres sugende tyngdekraft ikke så stor, og de bliver lettere at se og nemmere at undgå. Havde jeg i tide fortalt Bente om knivene, om fantasiprinsessen Birgitte, om angstanfaldende, om savnet, om tvivlen så havde livet måske set anderledes ud. Men jeg skulle først lære at være ved, hvem jeg er. "

The first official biography of the last great guitar hero.

The Glitter. The THEATRICS. The EXCESS. The Music.The true story of the gender-bending artists who changed rock and roll.Simon Reynolds has been hailed as ?the foremost popular music critic of this era? (Times Literary Supplement [UK]), ?unassailable? (New York Times), and ?the most provocative pop music writer of his generation? (Boston Globe). Now, the acclaimed author of Rip It Up and Start Again and Retromania delivers the definitive cultural history of glam and glitter rock, celebrating its outlandish fashion and outrageous stars and tracking its vibrant legacy in contemporary pop.Reacting against the drab, denim-clad long-hair bands of the hippie era, glam rock was the first true teenage rampage of the Seventies. Pioneered by David Bowie, Alice Cooper, T. Rex, New York Dolls and Roxy Music, this new look and sound reveled in artifice and spectacle over earnestness and authenticity. In Shock and Awe, Simon Reynolds takes you on a deeply researched and wildly entertaining cultural tour through the glam explosion?a period defined by glitzy costumes and alien makeup, thrilling music, and larger-than-life personas. Shock and Awe offers a fresh look at the glam phenomenon, placing it the context of the era's social upheaval and political disillusion. Probing the genre's major themes?fame, androgyny, decadence, apocalypse?Reynolds traces glam's influence as it reverberates across subsequent decades, from art-pop aesthetes like Kate Bush, Prince and Morrissey in the Eighties to contemporary pop icons such as Lady Gaga, Nicki Minaj and Beyoncé. Shock and Awe reveals how the original glam artists' obsessions and provocations continue to ripple through our culture today.

How can classic rock live on when its idols are dying all around us?Twilight of the Gods is a bold, often humorous, and provocative book about our rock gods and the undeniable messages they leave behind. Since the 1960s, artists like the Rolling Stones, the Who, Fleetwood Mac, the Eagles, Black Sabbath, and Bruce Springsteen have ushered the classic rock canon forward. Even groups that are no longer active?the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin?continue to wield an outsized amount of cultural capital. But no matter how entrenched these classic rockers have been, you can already see signs of their decline.Mixing personal memoir, criticism, and journalism, Steven Hyden, author of the critically acclaimed Your Favorite Band Is Killing Me, explores the ways that classic rock changed the culture?how it established the album as music's answer to the novel and rock concerts as the secular equivalent to church?and asks whether any of these signposts can endure. He investigates the rise and fall of classic rock radio and asks whether the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is telling the right version of rock history. Twilight of the Gods explains what we can learn from rock gods and their music, and tries to answer the most important question: Is classic rock ephemeral or forever?

Emerging from the not-so-mean streets of suburban New England at the tail end of the 1980s, The Unband embraced everything reckless, unhealthy, and downright harebrained about rock and roll. After a decade on the booze-and-gas-soaked road to success, with the help of their dominatrix manager, a willful record executive or two, and dumb luck in spades, the hard-rocking, gleefully out-of-control Unband arrived at the threshold of the new century and got their shot at the big time?in a chaotic music industry where boy-band pop ruled supreme and rock music had been declared dead. In this epic, intoxicated un-memoir, Unband bassist Michael Ruffino delves deeper into the story he originally told in 2004's Gentlemanly Repose, taking readers along on a raucous tear through the netherworld of heavy rock, populated with crack-smoking Girl Scouts, collegiate bedlamites, shotgun-toting barmaids, a rodent-chomping music CEO, a beer-drinking chimp, and headbangers by the horde, while on tour with giants of heavy metal including Dio, Motörhead, Anthrax, Def Leppard, and a Who Was Who of reunited '80s hair bands. Into that volatile mix, The Unband brought do-it-yourself pyrotechnics, a giant inflatable hand (for making giant inflatable gestures), a high tolerance for substance abuse of all kinds, and an infectious love of rock and roll and everything it stands for.Equal parts This Is Spinal Tap and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Adios, Motherfucker is a riotous and unbridled testament to rock and roll being at its best on the brink of disaster.

A behind-the-scenes account from Muddy Waters's road manager and right-hand man during the bluesman's last great years

In this collection of poetry and short stories, Dominique Daye Hunter explores the histories, intergenerational and personal trauma, healing, and resilience of the Afro-Indigenous diaspora. Other themes highlighted in the book include Indigenous spirituality, Afro Indigenous identity, anti-Blackness, anti-Indigeneity, perspectives of Southeastern Indigenous peoples, traditional Yesáh / Saponi culture, reclaiming African roots, ancestral guidance, self-love, food sovereignty, and water rights.

Long John Baldry is considered the father of the '60s British blues movement. Drawing on intimate anecdotes from Baldry's legendary friends, lovers, and peers, author Paul Myers uncovers the man behind the mythic persona. An entire generation of British rock legends flourished under Baldry's tutelage, and "It Ain't Easy" features exclusive personal recollections from artists such as Sir Elton John, Rod Stewart, Eric Clapton, Sir Paul McCartney, John Mayall, and Mick Fleetwood, as well as interviews with renowned music industry insiders like songwriter/producer Tony Macaulay, Yardbirds manager Giorgio Gomelsky, ex-Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham, filmmaker Cameron Crowe, and others. Extensively researched, "It Ain't Easy" traces Baldry's extraordinary life from his birth during the London Blitz, to his discovery of black American music, to the sexual revolution, to the musical and social upheaval of the 1960s and '70s, and to his eventual happy retreat to the tranquility of Canada's Pacific Coast.

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Song Atlas is a unique piece of social history by a German rhythm and blues fan who traveled the United States searching for the places referred to in the great blues and rock songs he loved so much. But his investigation of place and inspiration demanded a thoughtful reckoning with the whole of American culture, particularly White racism from the earliest years of the nation to the present. Rich in biographical detail about a host of America's great songwriters and players, famous or obscure, it also includes nuanced analysis of the music and lyrics. Balanced between personal impressions and the historical record, Song Atlas is a valuable collection of insights concerning a vast culture always in flux, an idiosyncratic tour of America in song.

"The Blind Boys of Alabama are the quintessential gospel vocal group, and the longest-running musical institution in America. Their story intersects with pivotal moments and issues in American history and is [a] ... prism through which to trace music, culture, history, and race in America. [This book] invites readers to follow along the Blind Boys' eight-decade journey together, from a segregated trade school through the rough and tumble indie record game and grinding tour schedule of the golden age of gospel, to starring in an iconic Broadway musical, performing at the White House for three presidents twice, collaborating with Tom Petty, Lou Reed, and Ben Harper, among others, singing the theme song for 'The Wire,' and winning five Grammys. More than just a story of the Blind Boys' illustrious career, Spirit of the Century also sheds new light on the larger world of African American gospel music, its origins, and the colorful characters at its center'

Livekonzerte sind unvergessliche Momente - sowohl für Musikerinnen und Musiker als auch für ihr Publikum. Viele dieser Momente sind auf Vinyl konserviert und finden als Teil unseres Lebens Eingang in unsere persönliche Erinnerungskultur. Die Buchreihe "LiveRillen" setzt genau dort an und erweckt diese emotionalen Ereignisse zu neuem Leben, indem die vorgestellten Konzertausschnitte mit Daten, Namen und Fakten angereichert, durch zeitgeschichtliche Aspekte erweitert und durch Querverweise und Anekdoten ergänzt werden. Die Buchreihe basiert auf den gleichnamigen monatlichen Radiosendungen, die der Literaturwissenschaftler, Buchautor, Journalist und Musiker Paul Bartsch seit dem Frühjahr 2018 auf Radio Corax präsentiert.

How can you learn your guitar's fretboard without thinking so that you can play melodies, chords, and solos to always fit the style musically?Robert "Landy" Landinger, author of this book, was looking for a corresponding method since he first started playing the guitar. He focused on guitar greats like Jimi Hendrix and Django Reinhardt and discovered the CAGED system which relies exclusively on the basic chords.With this volume, there is finally a book for everyone to learn this ingenious system quickly and effortlessly and master the classic chords on the guitar. Whether you're a singer-songwriter or a folk, metal, jazz or blues guitarist, this book will give you the tools you need to become a CAGED specialist.

A collection of dazzling black-and-white photographs and in-depth interviews that illuminate the lives and times of three generations of blues musicians

"A visual storytelling celebration of American roots music in its rich variety through unseen and newly scanned photographs by the founder of the legendary Arhoolie Records"--

A queer, Black “biography in essays” about the performer who gave us “Hound Dog,” “Ball and Chain,” and other songs that changed the course of American music.

"A new biography of the beloved but mysterious Blind Lemon Jefferson, famous blues musician. Born in 1897, Jefferson was a blind street musician who played his guitar at the corner of Elm Street and Central Avenue in the Deep Ellum area of Dallas, Texas, until a Paramount Records scout discovered him. Between 1926 and his untimely death in 1929, Jefferson made more than 80 records and became the biggest-selling blues singer in America. Although his recordings are extensive, details about his life are relatively few. Through Govenar and Lornell's extensive interviews and research, See That My Grave is Kept Clean gathers the scattered facts behind Blind Lemon Jefferson's mythic representations"--

«Der Blues wird immer präsent sein, zu manchen Zeiten populärer als zu anderen Zeiten, aber er wird immer hier sein!» - JOHN LEE HOOKER Liebeskummer, Armut, harte Arbeit, Verfolgung und Erschöpfung, Ironie, Einsamkeit und Verrat, Sünde und Seelenheil, Trunkenheit, Verzweiflung, sexuelle Lust und pure Freude: über diese Zustände und einige mehr erzählen die Blues-Musiker mit grosser Leidenschaft. Im Ursprung besticht die Blues-Musik durch geniale Einfachheit und ist über die Jahre erstaunlich reich an Varianten und Komplexität gewachsen. Keine andere populäre Musik spricht so viele Hörer an wie der Blues, es braucht aber ein gewisses Know-How, um die Feinheiten zu verstehen. Aufgegliedert in elf Kapitel, speziell für dieses Werk erarbeitet, geht NOTHING BUT THE BLUES den afrikanisch-amerikanischen Ursprüngen auf den Grund, erkundet seine frühe Entwicklung als publikumswirksame Unterhaltung, die ersten Tonaufnahmen, seine regionalen Unterschiede (Mid-South, Tidewater-Piedmont, Chicago, Detroit, New York, Los Angeles), seine stilistischen Eigenheiten und gegenwärtige Situation. CountryBlues, Urban Blues, die Entwicklung des Rhythm and Blues, der Rock ,n' Roll, und das erstaunliche Blues Revival in den 60ern werden ausgiebig erläutert. Aber das geschriebene Wort bietet nur einen Teil der Geschichte. Blues-Fans verehren Ihre Musiker und schätzen die Fotos sehr. Darum präsentiert NOTHING BUT THE BLUES zahlreiche, zum Teil nie gesehene rare Archiv-Fotos und Abbildungen von Dokumenten, z.B. Leadbelly's NYPD Strafregisterblatt oder Verträge der Plattenfirmen mit den Musikern. Hinzu kommt ein Vorwort der Blues-Legende B.B. King und eine handverlesene Diskographie, eine Auswahl für Sammler mit Best of the Best-Empfehlungen, die man hören sollte. Der Blues ist besonders heute in Europa wieder so populär wienur in den 60ern. Konzerte mit Buddy Guy, Bobby Rush oder John Mayall aber auch jüngeren Künstlern wie Lilly Martin, Christoph "Kingfish" Ingram und Shemekia Copeland sind stets ausverkauft.

Born into poverty in Mississippi at the close of the nineteenth century, Charley Patton and Jimmie Rodgers established themselves among the most influential musicians of their era. In Tune tells the story of the parallel careers of these two pioneering recording artists -- one white, one black -- who moved beyond their humble origins to change the face of American music. At a time when segregation formed impassable lines of demarcation in most areas of southern life, music transcended racial boundaries. Jimmie Rodgers and Charley Patton drew inspiration from musical traditions on both sides of the racial divide, and their songs about hard lives, raising hell, and the hope of better days ahead spoke to white and black audiences alike. Their music reflected the era in which they lived but evoked a range of timeless human emotions. As the invention of the phonograph disseminated traditional forms of music to a wider audience, Jimmie Rodgers gained fame as the "Father of Country Music," while Patton's work eventually earned him the title "King of the Delta Blues." Patton and Rodgers both died young, leaving behind a relatively small number of recordings. Though neither remains well known to mainstream audiences, the impact of their contributions echoes in the songs of today. The first book to compare the careers of these two musicians, In Tune is a vital addition to the history of American music.