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The Blues: A Visual History: 100 Years of Music That Changed the World

by Mike Evans

A visual history of the blues

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A visual history of the blues

Mike Evans traces the blues from its rural roots in the American South through the musicians and singers who helped bring the genre to a worldwide audience. The account connects the blues’ 12-bar form with the development of popular music over the past century. Its visual material—350 photographs and illustrations, including archival photography and graphic memorabilia—puts musicians and music artifacts alongside the historical overview. A foreword by record producer Marshall Chess adds a connection to Chess Records, the Chicago rhythm-and-blues label associated with his family.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in blues history and its place in popular music.
  • Music fans who value photographs, archival images, and graphic memorabilia.
  • Those exploring the musicians and singers who brought blues to wider recognition.

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Blues historyThe blues and popular musicMusicians and singersMusic photography and memorabilia

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Book overview

Charting the history of the blues from its rural roots in the American South and focusing on the key musicians and singers who brought it recognition worldwide, The Blues: A Visual History is a unique and fully illustrated account of the development of the blues. This deceptively simple, 12-bar musical form has become the common denominator that has driven the popular music of the last hundred years. As John Lee Hooker put it: "The music we play . . . that music is the roots. Rock music, everything else, is like a branch on the same tree. It all comes from the blues."
  • 350 stunning photographs and illustrations
  • A wealth of archive photography
  • Rare graphic memorabilia
  • Foreword by Marshall Chess, veteran record producer with his family's legendary Chicago rhythm-and-blues label, Chess Records
Author Mike Evans is a musician, editor, and author whose books include the best-selling Elvis: A Celebration, and Ray Charles: The Birth of Soul. Consultant editor Robert Gordon is a Grammy Award-winning writer and filmmaker specializing in the music of the American south, and Scott Barretta is a blues specialist writer, broadcaster, and lecturer.
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