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The Guitar Players - One Instrument and Its Masters in American Music (Paperback)
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The Guitar Players - One Instrument and Its Masters in American Music (Paperback)
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"The guitar and American music are inexorably intertwined," writes
James Sallis in The Guitar Players. He notes that "American music
was built on the backs of black slaves." The great classical blues
period of the 1920s had rich antecedents going back further than
plantation orchestras featuring fiddles and bajos. The introduction
of the guitar, at first not a solo instrument, really demonstrated
rhythmic ingenuity. Sallis shows how folk music and a
cross-fertilization of traditions and techniques resulted in blues,
ragtime, jazz, rock 'n' roll, and country-western. He writes
eloquently about fourteen transitional or pivotal performers: the
Mississippi Sheiks; Lonnie Johnson, the first virtuoso blues
guitarist; Eddie Lang, the first great jazz guitarist; Roy Smeck,
the foremost popularizer of guitar playing; Charlie Christian, the
founder of modern jazz guitar; Riley Puckett, the first great
country-music guitarist; T-Bone Walker, "daddy of the blues";
George Barnes; Hank Garland; Wes Montgomery, the jazz innovator;
Mike Bloomfield, the heavy-rock guitarist; Ry Cooder; Ralph Towner;
and Lenny Breau. James Sallis, who grew up in Helena, Arkansas, a
town with a history of blues activity, is a free-lance writer. The
Long-Legged Fly was named one of the best mysteries of the year by
the Los Angeles Times. Moth is his second novel to feature the
black New Orleans detective Lew Griffin.
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