Author: Stephen J. Nichols
Publisher: Brazos Press
Keywords: blues, salvation, suffering, music, getting, teaches
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2008-09-01
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 1587432129
ISBN-13: 9781587432125
In Getting the Blues, Stephen Nichols shows how blues music offers powerful insight into the biblical narrative and the life of Jesus. Weaving Bible stories together with intriguing details of the lives of blues musicians, he leads readers in a vivid exploration of how blues music teaches about sin, suffering, alienation, and worship. Nichols unpacks the Psalms, portions of the prophets, and Paul’s writings in this unique way, revealing new facets of Scripture.Getting the Blues will resonate with all readers interested in Christianity and culture. In the end they will emerge with a great
Author: Barry Lee Pearso
Publisher: Univ Tennessee Pre
Keywords: blues, storytellers, stories, jook, right
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2005-11-15
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1572334320
ISBN-13: 9781572334328
Author: Steve Cheseborough
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Keywords: blues, third, delta, holy, traveling, sites
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-09-10
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 1604731249
ISBN-13: 9781604731248
Expanded and updated, a new edition of the indispensable guidebook to the cradle of the blues
Author: David Eva
Publisher: Da Capo Pre
Keywords: blues, capo, paperback, folk, creativity, tradition, road
Number of Pages: 396
Published: 1987-08-22
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0306803003
ISBN-13: 9780306803000
This book analyzes the process of composition, learning and performance of the Southern folk blues of black America. Never before has this musical form been examined so scrupulously. Evans traces the impact of commercialism, especially the phonograph record, on blues history, as well as the various local traditions that produce a given blues tune and text. The author has done extensive field work in Mississippi and provides here a structure for understanding not only the blues but almost any other oral literature from other cultures. This book won the University of Chicago Folklore Prize. All
Author: David Barrett
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
Keywords: blues, playing, school, accompaniment, harmonica, presents, mel
Number of Pages: 46
Published: 2009-07-27
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 078667637X
ISBN-13: 9780786676378
Around twenty percent of your playing time on the bandstand is spent soloing have you studied how to play during the other eighty percent? Blues Harmonica Accompaniment Playing, within the School of the Blues® Lesson Series, is an exciting journey into the art of traditional blues harmonica accompaniment (playing fills, under vocals and chording patterns) as well as modern approaches to playing horn, organ and bass lines. Additional studies cover openings, breaks and endings. This book and CD is for the intermediate to advanced harmonica player. Recording includes all harmonica parts notated
Authors:John McCarthy, Steve Gorenburg,
Publisher: Rock House Method
Keywords: blues, course, guitar, presents, house
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2008-02-01
List price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 0978983297
ISBN-13: 9780978983291
"96 Pg. Book, Also Includes 2 DVDs/2 CDs The House of Blues and producers of The Rock House Method® join together to bring you this unique and comprehensive Blues Guitar Course! With this course designed by world renowned instructor/guitarist John McCarthy you will develop a solid foundation for playing Blues guitar by learning essential blues chords and scales, the BB Box, lead techniques used by greats such as Stevie Ray Vaughn, Buddy Guy and B.B. King, string bending, vibrato, hammer-ons, pull-offs and complete blues rhythms including the 12 bar blues. The second part of the course encoura
Author:
Publisher: Cherry Lane Music
Keywords: blues, progression, guitar, educational, portion, sound, bar, cool, riffs, over
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2002-06-01
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 1575604795
ISBN-13: 9781575604794
If you’re a guitarist who’s learned the pentatonic scale up and down the neck but still asks, "During a solo, how do I know what to play and when to play it?", then this book is for you. Its goal is to give you a variety of great blues licks that you can put together bar by bar to create a complete blues solo. Covers: the 12-bar blues progression, cool riffs, complete solos and more. The CD features "Music Minus Me" tracks that let you play along as the featured soloist.
