Feel Like Going Home: Portraits in Blues and Rock 'n' Roll
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| Rating | : | 4.29 (610 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0011V2C58 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 303 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Bill Slocum said Engaging Portraits Of Music Pioneers. As someone who doesn't know a lot about blues music except to run and hide when someone begins to comment on "the cadential modalities of Muddy Waters's early Chess period" over cocktails, I approached this book with trepidation, unnecessarily. It's a very enveloping and informative look at some of the compelling personalities who helped shape two key forms of American popular music, the blues and rock 'n' roll.It's not a comprehensive history; Guralnick instead offers some individual, detail. Jason Lubrant said Wonderful Portraits of Musical Giants. Peter Guralnick begins this book with a tribute to early rock and roll and his adoration of it and then has chapters on mainly blues performers and then Sun Records and finally the final days of Chess Records. Guralnick gives us personal insights on artists, some famous (Jerry Lee Lewis), some more obscure (Robert Pete Williams). Even if you have read every item of information on Howlin Wolf or Charlie Rich this still displays a perspective on them from a different angle. Overall a wonderful . Sitting down at home Peter Guralnick comes over as a fan to the houses of the men he is going to interview. Sometimes an apartment, sometimes a house in Louisiana, but usually in their own homes. They watch tv, some books are on the shelves, a color tv, some records, a wife that also wants to add something.In this manner you read the chapters about some great bluesmen. And they still remain legends and heroes, but legends and heroes that we can touch, that we can talk to, what we can see as normal men. And isn't
Feel Like Going Home: Portraits in Blues and Rock 'n' Roll book on paperback has been released on 0000-00-00. consist of 303 of pages and writen by Peter Guralnick are really nice book to read. Although it oficially circulated on paperback but you still download it on other format or just read it online from our website.