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  • Slim Harpo: King Bee of the Swamp Blues

    The Roots of the Blues, #1

    by Simon Godfrey ...
    Series Book 1 - The Roots of the Blues
    Slim Harpo: King Bee of the Swamp Blues tells the remarkable story of James Isaac Moore, the Louisiana singer, harmonica player and songwriter who helped define swamp blues and left a lasting mark on rock and popular music. Drawing on his Baton Rouge roots, his rise through the local club scene, and his crucial partnership with producer Jay Miller, Simon Godfrey traces how Harpo developed a sound ... Read more

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  • The Strangers' Tide

    The Broken Coast, #1

    by Simon Godfrey ...
    Series Book 1 - The Broken Coast
    On the misted shores where three peoples have kept their fires apart, and in balance, for longer than any story remembers, a child presses an ear to a driftwood log and whispers that something is coming. By dawn the smoke on the wind has a taste no one knows. Below Cedar Point a camp has risen in straight lines, full of men who move as one body and carry sticks that speak.The Strangers offer trade ... Read more

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  • Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup: The Father of Rock ‘n’ Roll

    The Roots of the Blues, #2

    by Simon Godfrey ...
    Series Book 2 - The Roots of the Blues
    He wrote the songs. Elvis got the fame.Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup was a Mississippi bluesman who could stop a room with nothing more than a guitar, a voice, and a perfectly placed pause. In the 1940s he recorded a handful of songs built so soundly that they would go on to shape the course of American popular music — including "That's All Right," the song a young Elvis Presley chose to record first, ... Read more

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  • Mamie Smith: Crazy Blues

    The Roots of the Blues, #6

    by Simon Godfrey ...
    Series Book 6 - The Roots of the Blues
    CRAZY BLUESMamie Smith and the Three Minutes That Changed American MusicOn August 10, 1920, a vaudeville singer named Mamie Smith stepped in front of a recording horn in a cramped New York studio and sang a song called "Crazy Blues." She was not the artist any label had been looking for. She was, by one account, a last-minute stand-in for a white singer who never showed. What happened next ... Read more

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  • Albert Collins: Master of the Telecaster

    The Roots of the Blues, #12

    by Simon Godfrey ...
    Series Book 12 - The Roots of the Blues
    For more than thirty years, Albert Collins built a fierce reputation in clubs and juke joints long before the wider world took notice.Known as the Master of the Telecaster, Collins created one of the most distinctive sounds in blues: sharp, percussive and instantly recognisable. His unusual open tuning, bare-fingered attack, sliding capo and piercing electric tone produced music that felt both icy ... Read more

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  • The Blues They Found

    by Simon Godfrey ...
    The Forgotten Story of the Blues Boom in BritainIn October 1958 a Chicago guitarist walked onto a Leeds stage with a Fender Telecaster turned up louder than anything the room had ever heard. Some walked out. The papers called it "screaming guitar and howling piano." A handful of young Britons stayed, listened, and began a quiet, stubborn search that would reshape popular music.This is not the ... Read more

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  • Sunnyland Slim: From the Delta to Chicago

    The Roots of the Blues, #5

    by Simon Godfrey ...
    Series Book 5 - The Roots of the Blues
    "The man who brought Muddy Waters to the session that started it all — and then kept showing up for the next seventy years."In August 1947, a working pianist brought a young guitarist he believed in to a Chicago recording session. That guitarist was Muddy Waters. The label became Chess Records. And the man who made the introduction, Sunnyland Slim, spent the next seven decades doing the same thing ... Read more

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  • Albert King: The Velvet Bulldozer

    The Roots of the Blues, #8

    by Simon Godfrey ...
    Series Book 8 - The Roots of the Blues
    Albert King held his guitar wrong.Left-handed, he played a right-handed Flying V flipped upside down — never restrung, strings running backward, bends pulled in a direction no method book ever taught. It wasn't a style choice. It was what a poor kid in Depression-era Arkansas did when there was no money for the "correct" instrument and no one around to say otherwise.That accident became one of the ... Read more

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  • Professor Longhair: Fess

    The Roots of the Blues, #11

    by Simon Godfrey ...
    Series Book 11 - The Roots of the Blues
    FESS: The Life and Music of Professor LonghairEvery Mardi Gras, New Orleans plays a song almost nobody remembers writing. "Go to the Mardi Gras" comes out of radios and brass bands and bar bands across the city like it's always existed — because for most of the people singing along, it has. The man who wrote it spent a decade of his life sweeping the floor of a record shop that still had his own ... Read more

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  • Magic Sam: The West Side Sound and the Blues That Got Away

    The Roots of the Blues, #7

    by Simon Godfrey ...
    Series Book 7 - The Roots of the Blues
    MAGIC SAM: The West Side Sound and the Blues That Got AwayOn the morning of December 1, 1969, Sam Maghett collapsed in his own home, three weeks after his thirty-second birthday — at the exact moment his career was finally catching up to his talent. A Stax contract was being negotiated. A European tour was on the calendar. Weeks earlier, he'd torn apart the Ann Arbor Blues Festival alongside ... Read more

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  • Freddie King: The Texas Cannonball

    The Roots of the Blues, #9

    by Simon Godfrey ...
    Series Book 9 - The Roots of the Blues
    Freddie King: The Texas CannonballHe was the guitarist other guitarists studied in secret. Eric Clapton learned "Hide Away" note by note from a hard-to-find record. Stevie Ray Vaughan absorbed his phrasing until it became the bedrock of Texas blues. Peter Green, Mick Taylor, Jeff Beck, and a generation of British players built their sound on his licks. Yet for most of his career, Freddie King ... Read more

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  • Scrapper Blackwell: Borrowed Blues

    The Roots of the Blues, #15

    by Simon Godfrey ...
    Series Book 15 - The Roots of the Blues
    SCRAPPER BLACKWELL: BORROWED BLUESHe helped shape the sound of the blues. Then the world forgot his name.Before Robert Johnson recorded "Sweet Home Chicago," Scrapper Blackwell was already playing the guitar lines that would help shape its musical ancestry.A brilliant, unconventional guitarist from Indianapolis, Blackwell became half of one of the greatest partnerships in early blues when he ... Read more

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