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The Country Blues (Paperback, Revised)
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The Country Blues (Paperback, Revised)
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From the field cries and work chants of Southern Negroes emerged a
rich and vital music called the country blues, an intensely
personal expression of the pains and pleasures of black life. This
music- recorded during the twenties by men like Blind Lemon
Jefferson, Big Bill Broonzy, and Robert Johnson- had all but
disappeared from memory until the folk music revival of the late
1950's created a new and appreciable audience for the country
blues.On of the pioneering studies of this unjustly-neglected music
was Sam Charter's The Country Blues. In it, Charters recreates the
special world of the country bluesman- that lone black performer
accompanying himself on the acoustic guitar, his music a rich
reflection of his own emotional life.Virtually rewriting the
history of the blues, Charters reconstructs its evolution and
dissemination, from the first tentative soundings on the
Mississippi Delta through the emergence, with Elvis Presley, of
rock and roll. His carefully-researched biographies of
near-legendary performers like Lonnie Johnson, Blind Boy Fuller,
and Tampa Red- coupled with his perceptive discussions of their
recordings- pay tribute to a kind of artistry that will never be
seen or heard again. And his portraits of the still-strumming Sonny
Terry, Brownie McGhee, Muddy Waters, and Lightnin' Hopkins- point
up the undying strength and vitality of the country blues.
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