Daddy Played The Blues

Author : Michael Garland
Publisher : Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780884485902

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Daddy Played the Blues by Michael Garland Pdf

*Notable Social Studies Trade Books Selection for Young People 2018* “I was six years old the day we left the farm in Mississippi,” remembers Cassie in this richly textured picture book. “Between the boll weevils, the floods, and the landlord, there was no way a family could scratch out a living there anymore.” Packing themselves into an old jalopy—with Daddy, Uncle Vern, and Mama in the front seat and Cassie and her two brothers in the back—they joined the Great Migration from the impoverished Deep South to Chicago, where there was work to be had in the stockyards. Across the kids’ laps lay Daddy’s prized possession, a six-string guitar. Daddy worked hard to put food on the table, but what he really loved was playing the blues. This evocative tale of the African-American odyssey in search of a better life is also a homage to the uniquely American music that developed from African music and American spirituals, work songs, and folk ballads. In the book’s backmatter, Garland relates how he first heard and fell in love with blues music, beginning a lifelong fandom. Portraits and thumbnail biographies of great blues musicians and landmark songs complete this tribute to the great American music and the yearnings that produced it. Fountas & Pinnell Level S

Author : Mike Ornstein
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1402743599

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The Daddy Longlegs Blues by Mike Ornstein Pdf

Daddy Longlegs will have kids singing along with his bluesy song as they read this hip picture book! He’s one cool cat who scats, an eight-legged drummer keeping the beat. He moves and grooves and gets funky across the floor. And one thing’s for sure: no one’s better at getting mellow on a saxophone, and bringing rhythm and soul into every child’s home. Mike Ornstein’s catchy rhyming text is irresistibly musical, and Lisa Kopelke’s witty art features plenty of fun details and an urban, bohemian flair; her sunglasses-wearing title character seems to come straight out of the Beat generation. A glossary of blues terms, a list of instruments played by the characters, and a page of facts about daddy longlegs and blues music provides extra entertaining info.

Author : Roger Stolle
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467141574

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Mississippi Juke Joint Confidential: House Parties, Hustlers & the Blues Life by Roger Stolle Pdf

Juke joint--two words often used, often abused. They convey an inherent promise of something real, edgy, from another time. All juke joints are blues clubs, but not all blues clubs are jukes. Here, artist recollections and insights delve below the murky surface to tell the tales, canonize the characters and explain the special brand of blues bottled in these quasi-legal establishments. Author Roger Stolle works from the inside to educate and entertain with a mix of history, anecdote and discovery. It's a wild ride.

Author : Hugh Merrill
Publisher : Garrett County Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781891053764

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The Blues Route by Hugh Merrill Pdf

Journalist Hugh Merrill takes us on a sweeping road trip in search of the distinctly American music known as the blues. Tracing blues culture from its beginning in rural Mississippi up through the Delta to Chicago and beyond, Merrill visits with legendary musicians such as Son Thomas, Koko Taylor, Son Seals, Valerie Wellington and Magic Slim. In fascinating interviews, Merrill uncovers wonderful stories about Robert Johnson, Big Bill Broonzy, Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, Jelly Roll Morton, Bessie Smith, Ida Cox and Ma Rainey. The trip dips into New Orleans as Merrill explores how the blues exploded in clubs and cribs, influencing dixieland, jazz and zydeco. A trip out west presents a lovely tour of the cocktail lounges of Oakland and Los Angeles and the guardians of the blues who live there. The Blues Route is an engrossing narrative, a book that celebrates not only the music but the continuing search for sympathy, understanding and affinity that the blues embodies.

Author : Gilles Vigneault
Publisher : La Montagne secrète
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-22T00:00:00-04:00
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9782924217085

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Sunday in Kyoto (Enhanced Edition) by Gilles Vigneault Pdf

Enhanced ebook (includes audio) The tale of an improbable group of musicians who come together to play their instruments in old Kyoto. The curious cast includes banjo-playing cane-wielding Joe from “Cajun land,” his Japanese wife adorned in a floral kimono, their Spanish friends, and a Buddhist monk. The narrated story is followed by recordings of the songs “Sunday in Kyoto” and “1,2,3, ABCD”.

Author : Alan B. Govenar
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781585446056

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Texas Blues by Alan B. Govenar Pdf

Texas Blues allows artists to speak in their own words, revealing the dynamics of blues, from its beginnings in cotton fields and shotgun shacks to its migration across boundaries of age and race to seize the musical imagination of the entire world. Fully illustrated with 495 dramatic, high-quality color and black-and-white photographs—many never before published—Texas Blues provides comprehensive and authoritative documentation of a musical tradition that has changed contemporary music. Award-winning documentary filmmaker and author Alan Govenar here builds on his previous groundbreaking work documenting these musicians and their style with the stories of 110 of the most influential artists and their times. From Blind Lemon Jefferson and Aaron “T-Bone” Walker of Dallas, to Delbert McClinton in Fort Worth, Sam “Lightnin’” Hopkins in East Texas, Baldemar (Freddie Fender) Huerta in South Texas, and Stevie Ray Vaughan in Austin, Texas Blues shows the who, what, where, and how of blues in the Lone Star State.

Author : Bobby Rush
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780306874796

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I Ain't Studdin' Ya by Bobby Rush Pdf

Experience music history with this memoir by one of the last of the genuine old school Blues and R&B legends, the Grammy-winning dynamic showman Bobby Rush. This memoir charts the extraordinary rise to fame of living blues legend, Bobby Rush. Born Emmett Ellis, Jr. in Homer, Louisiana, he adopted the stage name Bobby Rush out of respect for his father, a pastor. As a teenager, Rush acquired his first real guitar and started playing in juke joints in Little Rock, Arkansas, donning a fake mustache to trick club owners into thinking he was old enough to gain entry. He led his first band in Arkansas between Little Rock and Pine Bluff in the 1950s. It was there he first had Elmore James play in his band. Rush later relocated to Chicago to pursue his musical career and started to work with Earl Hooker, Luther Allison, and Freddie King, and sat in with many of his musical heroes, such as Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed and Little Walter. Rush eventually began leading his own band in the 1960s, crafting his own distinct style of funky blues, and recording a succession of singles for various labels. It wasn't until the early 1970s that Rush finally scored a hit with "Chicken Heads." More recordings followed, including an album which went on to be listed in the Top 10 blues albums of the 1970s by Rolling Stone and a handful of regional jukebox favorites including "Sue" and "I Ain't Studdin' Ya." And Rush's career shows no signs of slowing down now. The man once beloved for performing in local jukejoints is now headlining major music/blues festivals, clubs, and theaters across the U.S. and as far as Japan and Australia. At age eighty-six, he is still on the road for over 200 days a year. His lifelong hectic tour schedule has earned him the affectionate title "King of the Chitlin' Circuit," from Rolling Stone. In 2007, he earned the distinction of being the first blues artist to play at the Great Wall of China. His renowned stage act features his famed shake dancers, who personify his funky blues and his ribald sense of humor. He was featured in Martin Scorcese's The Blues docuseries on PBS, a documentary film called Take Me to the River, performed with Dan Aykroyd on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and most recently had a cameo in the Golden Globe nominated Netflix film, Dolemite Is My Name, starring Eddie Murphy. He was recently given the highest Blues Music Award honor of B.B. King Entertainer of the Year. His songs have also been featured in TV shows and films including HBO's Ballers and major motion pictures like Black Snake Moan, starring Samuel L. Jackson. Considered by many to be the greatest bluesman currently performing, this book will give readers unparalleled access into the man, the myth, the legend: Bobby Rush.

Author : Henry Townsend
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0252025261

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A Blues Life by Henry Townsend Pdf

Through Townsend's easy reminiscences, the guitarist Lonnie Johnson, the pianists Walter Davis and Roosevelt Sykes, and the promoter Jessie Johnson come vividly to life, along with scores of other individuals both remembered and forgotten who left their mark on a key musical genre."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Arnold Adoff
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780547758640

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Roots And Blues by Arnold Adoff Pdf

Through poems and poetic prose pieces, acclaimed children's author Arnold Adoff celebrates that uniquely American form of music called the blues. In his signature “shaped speech” style, he creates a narrative of moments and joyous music, from the drums of the ancestors, the red dirt of the plantations, the current of the mighty Mississippi, and the shackles, blood, and tears of slavery. Each chop of the ax is a beat, each lash of the whip fashions another line on the musical staff. But each sound also creates the chords and harmonies that preserve the ancestors and their stories, and sustain life, faith, and hope into our own times.

Author : Jody French
Publisher : Black Rose Writing
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781684333554

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Rock Angel by Jody French Pdf

When Emily, a sensitive synesthete from Claremore, Oklahoma, witnesses a heart-wrenching act of domestic violence that orphans her and her older sister, Emily is haunted by the loss of her kindred spirit. She turns to music for comfort, and keeps secret the fact that she has the ability to see other people’s auras and sense their true natures. For Emily, a kaleidoscope of color lofts above everyone she meets. She is instinctively drawn to rare, nurturing Purples like her mother and avoids the cruel Grays like her father, the Monster. Without her mother’s guidance, Emily must learn to trust her instincts and draw her boundaries on her own as she navigates through a newly found career in the music business.

Author : Laurel Croza
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781554983667

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From There to Here by Laurel Croza Pdf

A little girl and her family have just moved across the country by train. Their new neighborhood in the city of Toronto is very different from their home in the Saskatchewan bush, and at first everything about “there” seems better than “here.” The little girl’s dad has just finished building a dam across the Saskatchewan River, and his new project is to build a highway through Toronto. In Saskatchewan, he would come home for lunch every day, but now he doesn’t come until supper. The family used to love to look at the stars, and the northern lights dancing in the night sky. But in the city, all they can see is the glare from the streetlights. All the kids used to run and play together, but now older brother Doug has his own friends. Then one day there is a knock on the door. It is Anne, who lives kitty-corner and is also eight, going on nine, and suddenly living in Toronto takes on a whole new light. Laurel Croza and Matt James have beautifully captured the voice and intense feelings of a young child who, in the midst of upheaval, finds hope in her new surroundings.

Author : Clarence M. Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Blues (Music)
ISBN : UOM:39015099304480

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Daddy Blues by Clarence M. Jones Pdf

Author : Margo Cooper
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781496847423

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Deep Inside the Blues by Margo Cooper Pdf

Deep Inside the Blues collects thirty-four of Margo Cooper’s interviews with blues artists and is illustrated with over 160 of her photographs, many published here for the first time. For thirty years, Cooper has been documenting the lives of blues musicians, their families and homes, neighborhoods, festivals, and gigs. Her photographic work combines iconic late-career images of many legendary figures including Bo Diddley, Honeyboy Edwards, B. B. King, Pinetop Perkins, and Hubert Sumlin with youthful shots of Cedric Burnside, Shemekia Copeland, and Sharde Thomas, themselves now in their thirties and forties. During this time, the Burnside and Turner families and other Mississippi artists such as T-Model Ford, James “Super Chikan” Johnson, and L. C. Ulmer entered the national and international spotlight, ensuring the powerful connection between authentic Delta, Hill Country, and Piney Woods blues musicians and their audience continues. In 1993, Cooper began photographing in the clubs around New England, then in Chicago, and before long in Mississippi and Helena, Arkansas. On her very first trips to Mississippi in 1997 and 1998, Cooper had the good fortune to photograph Sam Carr, Frank Frost, Bobby Rush, and Otha Turner, among others. “The blues come out of the field,” Ulmer told Cooper. Seeing those fields, as well as the old juke joints, country churches, and people’s homes, inspired her. She began recording interviews with the musicians, sometimes over a period of years, listening and asking questions as their narratives unfolded. Many of the key blues players of the period have already passed, making their stories and Cooper’s photographs of them all the more poignant and valuable.

Author : Lane Wilkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : African American clergy
ISBN : PSU:000050581177

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1964, to Profit a Man by Lane Wilkins Pdf

Author : Barry Lee Pearson
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812211719

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Sounds So Good to Me by Barry Lee Pearson Pdf

The roots of much American music lie in the intensely personal art form of the blues. What bluesmen from W.C. Handy to B.B. King have told us about their lives has shaped America's perception of the blues. These life stories provide central insights into blues music and stand as a fascinating form of narrative in their own right. Barry Lee Pearson has conducted dozens of field interviews and collected over a hundred published autobiographies to present this collective portrait of bluesmen's careers as they themselves tell them: their musical learning, communities, work, pleasures, travels, triumphs, and crises.