Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Nebraska

CD included

Mel Bay's series, Guitar Journals, is the ultimate reference guide of studies and solos in several different genres. This fantastic blues volume contains exercises on barre chords, power chords, progressions, strum patterns, hammer-ons, pull-offs, bends, double stops, scales, licks and also a wide variety of tunes. Perfect for the student to professional musician's everyday use! All music in notation and tablature. Hard cover, covered spiral binding and premium stock paper make this a volume so beautifully printed and bound and containing so much valuable information that you will treasure it for years to come!*Ultimate guide of blues exercises and solos and perfect reference manual for everyday use*Barre chords, power chords, progressions, strum patterns, hammer-ons, pull-offs, bends, double stops, scales, licks AND a wide variety of tunes*Ideal for the student to professional musician*Beautiful hard cover with covered spiral binding and premium papeR and Bull;Companion recording*In notation and tablature

Blues

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Book has been well loved but still has some life to it. Perfect for any Blues Clues fan. 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Florida

Steve and Blue build a tent to help Blue go to sleep.

Blue's Bedtime

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#hardcover #biography #mikesdavis #blues #musician #downbeatmagazine #photos 

Interviews and Features from DownBeat Magazine

Interviews and features from Downbeat Magazine

The Miles Davis Reader

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#paperback #dubus #bluesman #blues #music #novel

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Kentucky

A Novel

With House of Sand and Fog, his National Book Award-nominated novel, Andre Dubus III demonstrated his mastery of the complexities of character and desire. In this earlier novel he captures a roiling time in American history and the coming-of-age of a boy who must decide between desire, ambition, and duty.

In the summer of 1967, Leo Suther has one more year of high school to finish and a lot more to learn. He's in love with the beautiful Allie Donovan who introduces him to her father, Chick -- a construction foreman and avowed Communist. Soon Leo finds himself in the midst of a consuming love affair and an intense testing of his political values. Chick's passionate views challenge Leo's perspective on the escalating Vietnam conflict and on just where he stands in relation to the new people in his life. Throughout his -- and the nation's -- unforgettable "summer of love," Leo is learning the language of the blues, which seem to speak to the mourning he feels for his dead mother, his occasionally distant father, and the youth which is fast giving way to manhood.

Bluesman

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Walter Dean Myers

New York

Illustrations and text celebrate the roots of jazz music.

Jazz

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Duke Ellington

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

South Carolina

Clayton Byrd Goes Underground

#nonfiction #music #paperback #blues #missingCD

Connecticut

Searching for the Blues

Traces the development and characteristics of the Delta blues, and describes the most influential blues musicians and recordings of the 1920s and 1930s

Chasin' that Devil Music

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New Mexico

The Life and Times of Muddy Waters

Offers an authoritative biography of the father of modern blues, detailing his turbulent life, from the cotton fields of rural Mississippi to his extraordinary rise to success, forever changing the music industry.

Can't Be Satisfied

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With striking intimacy and candor, Eric Clapton tells the story of his eventful and inspiring life in this poignant and honest autobiography. More than a rock star, he is an icon, a living embodiment of the history of rock music. Well known for his reserve in a profession marked by self-promotion, flamboyance, and spin, he now chronicles, for the first time, his remarkable personal and professional journeys.

Born illegitimate in 1945 and raised by his grandparents, Eric never knew his father and, until the age of nine, believed his actual mother to be his sister. In his early teens his solace was the guitar, and his incredible talent would make him a cult hero in the clubs of Britain and inspire devoted fans to scrawl “Clapton is God” on the walls of London’s Underground. With the formation of Cream, the world's first supergroup, he became a worldwide superstar, but conflicting personalities tore the band apart within two years. His stints in Blind Faith, in Delaney and Bonnie and Friends, and in Derek and the Dominos were also short-lived but yielded some of the most enduring songs in history, including the classic “Layla.”

During the late sixties he played as a guest with Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan, as well as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and longtime friend George Harrison. It was while working with the latter that he fell for George’s wife, Pattie Boyd, a seemingly unrequited love that led him to the depths of despair, self-imposed seclusion, and drug addiction. By the early seventies he had overcome his addiction and released the bestselling album 461 Ocean Boulevard, with its massive hit “I Shot the Sheriff.” He followed that with the platinum album Slowhand, which included “Wonderful Tonight,” the touching love song to Pattie, whom he finally married at the end of 1979. A short time later, however, Eric had replaced heroin with alcohol as his preferred vice, following a pattern of behavior that not only was detrimental to his music but contributed to the eventual breakup of his marriage.
In the eighties he would battle and begin his recovery from alcoholism and become a father. But just as his life was coming together, he was struck by a terrible blow: His beloved four-year-old son, Conor, died in a freak accident. At an earlier time Eric might have coped with this tragedy by fleeing into a world of addiction. But now a much stronger man, he took refuge in music, responding with the achingly beautiful “Tears in Heaven.”

Clapton is the powerfully written story of a survivor, a man who has achieved the pinnacle of success despite extraordinary demons. It is one of the most compelling memoirs of our time

Texas

Clapton: The Autobiography 

Utah

(Guitar Educational). Now you can add authentic blues feel and flavor to your playing! Here are 101 definitive licks plus demonstration tracks via online audio from every major blues guitar style, neatly organized into easy-to-use categories. They're all here, including Delta blues, jump blues, country blues, Memphis blues, Texas blues, West Coast blues, Chicago blues, and British blues. The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.

101 Must-Know Blues Licks

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Contemporary classic about the formation of blues band in working class Dublin. Same brutal honesty and heartbreak as Paddy Clarke for which Doyle won the Mann-Booker. Cover has wear. Inside, crisp, but for one clipped page. #Ireland #Dublin #blues #music #rocknroll 

North Carolina

In the first volume of the Barrytown Trilogy, Roddy Doyle, winner of the Booker Prize for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, introduces The Commitments, a group of fame-starved, working-class Irish youths with a paradoxical passion for the music of Sam Cooke and Otis Redding and a mission--to bring Soul to Dublin. Doyle writes about the band with a fan's enthusiasm and about Dublin with a native's cheerful knowingness. His book captures all the shadings of the rock experience: ambition, greed, and egotism--ans the redeeming, exhilarating joy of making music. The Commitments is one of the most engaging and believable novels about rock'n'roll ever written, a book whose brashness and originality have won it mainstream acclaim and underground cachet.

The Commitments

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#fiction #mystery #detective #paperback #lisaturner #southernmystery #blues #memphis

Alabama

a mystery

The gone dead train

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New Jersey

A young girl who misses her father, a traveling blues musician, lifts her own spirits by wearing his hat and singing his songs.

Tiny's Hat

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Georgia

The Autobiography of Ruth Brown, Rhythm and Blues Legend

Singer Ruth Brown, "Miss Rhythm", shares candid recollections of the early days of RandB, the racism she encountered on the road, and her chart-topping success despite seemingly impossible odds. 65 photos.

Miss Rhythm

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John Wirt

Louisiana

Huey "Piano" Smith's musical legacy stands alongside that of fellow New Orleans legends Dr. John, Fats Domino, Ernie K-Doe, and Allen Toussaint. His 1957 classic, "Rocking Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu," made Billboard's top R&B singles chart, and hundreds of artists including Aerosmith, the Grateful Dead, the Beach Boys, Johnny Rivers, and Chubby Checker have recorded his songs. The first biography of the artist responsible for hits "Don't You Just Know It," "High Blood Pressure," and "Sea Cruise," Huey "Piano" Smith and the Rocking Pneumonia Blues follows the musician's extraordinary life from his Depression-era childhood to his teen years as a pianist for blues star Guitar Slim to his mainstream success in the 1950s and '60s. Drawing from extensive interviews and court records, author and journalist John Wirt also provides new insights on Smith's professional disappointments and financial struggles in the 1980s and '90s as he battled over royalties from his most successful and profitable work. An enigmatic and guarded personality in a profession of extroverted performers, Smith made farreaching contributions to the New Orleans music scene as a songwriter, pianist, and producer. Wirt reveals that Smith's numerous collaborations with other artists -- including the Clowns, the Pitter Pats, the Hueys, and Shindig Smith and the Soul Shakers -- served as vehicles for his creative vision rather than simply as an anonymous backup for a leading front man. Throughout this intimate account, Wirt details Smith's significant impact on rock and roll history and underscores both the longevity of his music -- which has entertained and inspired for over five decades -- and the musician's personal endurance in the face of hardship and opposition.

Huey Piano Smith and the Rocking Pneumonia Blues

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Iowa

The Autobiography of B. B. King

"Riley B. King grew up amidst the cotton farms of Mississippi, picking in the fields. At age 21 he wrecked a tractor and took it as a sign that a brighter future awaited him as a musician in Memphis. The rest is history." "Recounting his days as a disk jockey and pioneering bluesman on the rhythm and blues circuit, B. B. dramatizes his whirlwind adventures, from the Memphis of the forties to the Moscow of the nineties, in a voice that is both raw and real. A deeply sensuous and sensitive soul, he discloses his complex relationship to women and sexuality, and chronicles his first-hand experience with racism, the Civil Rights movement, and the shifting politics of show business."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Blues All Around Me

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Laban Carrick Hill

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance

When it was released in 2004, Harlem Stomp! was the first trade book to bring the Harlem Renaissance alive for young adults! Meticulously researched and lavishly illustrated, the book is a veritable time capsule packed with poetry, prose, photographs, full-color paintings, and reproductions of historical documents. Now, after more than three years in hardcover, three starred reviews and a National Book Award nomination, Harlem Stomp! is being released in paperback.

Harlem Stomp!

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5CD collection w/booklet 

The Blues, A musical journey 

Including photographs, this intriguing study explores the city that lies at the root of so much of America's music, beginning back in the 1800s, following the frontier to 1920s blues, 1950s rock and roll, and the Grand Ole Opry.

Memphis Beat

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West Virginia

Set of five guitar books

Missouri

Art, music, drama/theater

Learn Harmonica Hinkler

Levi Clay

Joseph Alexander

Ohio

Learn the authentic sound of delta blues guitar with Levi Clay

Delta Blues Slide Guitar

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Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock 'n' Roll

The first biography of New Orleans rock 'n' roll legend Fats Domino, by a writer who obtained exclusive access to the reclusive singer.

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Blue's Bedtime

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The Miles Davis Reader

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Jazz

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Duke Ellington

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Clayton Byrd Goes Underground

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Chasin' that Devil Music

Robert Gordon

Can't Be Satisfied

Eric Clapton

Clapton: The Autobiography

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101 Must-Know Blues Licks

Roddy Doyle

The Commitments

Lisa Turner

The gone dead train

Ann Grifalconi (Illustrator)

Tiny's Hat

Ruth Brown

Miss Rhythm

John Wirt

Huey Piano Smith and the Rocking Pneumonia Blues

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Blues All Around Me

Laban Carrick Hill

Harlem Stomp!

Martin Scorsese

The Blues, A musical journey

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Memphis Beat

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Set of five guitar books

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Learn Harmonica Hinkler

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Delta Blues Slide Guitar

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