Winner of the 2016 Living Blues Award for Blues Book of the
Year Since the early 1900s, blues and the guitar have traveled side
by side. This book tells the story of their pairing from the first
reported sightings of blues musicians, to the rise of nationally
known stars, to the onset of the Great Depression, when blues
recording virtually came to a halt. Like the best music
documentaries, Early Blues: The First Stars of Blues Guitar
interweaves musical history, quotes from celebrated musicians (B.B.
King, John Lee Hooker, Ry Cooder, and Johnny Winter, to name a
few), and a spellbinding array of life stories to illustrate the
early days of blues guitar in rich and resounding detail. In these
chapters, you’ll meet Sylvester Weaver, who recorded the
world’s first guitar solos, and Paramount Records artists Papa
Charlie Jackson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and Blind Blake, the
“King of Ragtime Blues Guitar.” Blind Willie McTell, the
Southeast’s superlative twelve-string guitar player, and Blind
Willie Johnson, street-corner evangelist of sublime gospel blues,
also get their due, as do Lonnie Johnson, the era’s most
influential blues guitarist; Mississippi John Hurt, with his
gentle, guileless voice and syncopated fingerpicking style; and
slide guitarist Tampa Red, “the Guitar Wizard.” Drawing on a
deep archive of documents, photographs, record company ads,
complete discographies, and up-to-date findings of leading
researchers, this is the most comprehensive and complete account
ever written of the early stars of blues guitar—an essential
chapter in the history of American music.
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