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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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  • 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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  • Guitar Slim: Long Cord, Loud Suit

    The Roots of the Blues, #19

    by Simon Godfrey ...
    Series Book 19 - The Roots of the Blues
    GUITAR SLIMLong Cord, Loud SuitHe rode into the club on another man's shoulders, dressed in a suit the color of a fire truck, his hair dyed to match — and he was still playing guitar.Eddie "Guitar Slim" Jones didn't just perform the blues. He staged it. A three-hundred-foot guitar cord let him leave the building mid-solo, walk out onto the street still playing, and saunter back in to find the ... 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Little Milton: The Blues Is Alright

    The Roots of the Blues, #13

    by Simon Godfrey ...
    Series Book 13 - The Roots of the Blues
    "What's the point in listening to us doing it when you can listen to Slim Harpo doing it?" Mick Jagger asked that about a different Louisiana bluesman. He could just as easily have said it about Little Milton.James Milton Campbell Jr. started with a piece of wire nailed to the side of a Mississippi farmhouse and cotton-field wages saved up for a mail-order guitar. He ended up with a number-one ... Read more

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  • Big Joe Williams: The Roving King of the Nine-String Guitar

    The Roots of the Blues, #3

    by Simon Godfrey ...
    Series Book 3 - The Roots of the Blues
    He built his first guitar with one string and whatever the swamp offered. He never really stopped.Born in 1903 on the edge of Mississippi's Noxubee Swamp, Joseph Lee Williams left home as a teenager and spent the next six decades proving that a blues musician's real instrument was motion itself — riding rails, working levee camps, touring with travelling minstrel shows, and turning up wherever a ... 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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  • Otis Rush: Double Trouble

    The Roots of the Blues, #14

    by Simon Godfrey ...
    Series Book 14 - The Roots of the Blues
    Play "Double Trouble" for someone who's never heard the name Otis Rush, and watch their face change. That minor-key ache. That guitar answering the voice like a second singer picking a fight. Somewhere around the second chorus, they'll ask who this is — and you'll have to explain that you're probably the first person who ever told them.Eric Clapton names him as one of his three foundational ... 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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  • Robert Cray: Strong Persuader

    The Roots of the Blues, #10

    by Simon Godfrey ...
    Series Book 10 - The Roots of the Blues
    Robert Cray: Strong Persuader is the story of a musician who helped bring the blues back into the mainstream without compromising its soul.Raised in a military family and shaped by music that travelled with him from one posting to the next, Robert Cray found his calling through rhythm and blues, gospel, soul, and the electric blues of Albert Collins. From Tacoma bar bands and the clubs of Eugene, ... Read more

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