Conversation with the Blues CD included
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'Conversation with the Blues, a beautiful and very important book first published in 1965 and now reissued with a fascinating preface and the histories of those he recorded all that time ago ... Even if you have the first edition of this essential book, it is well worth buying the reprint. Apart from bringing the whole thing up to date, it has a CD tucked inside the back cover.' The Daily Telegraph
'... a wonderful mixture of the literary, the graphic and the musical ... there can hardly be a better opportunity to spend a happy evening at home with the blues.' The Times Literary Supplement
'... an indispensable document in blues history ... a book unique, not only in his output, but also for its immediacy, passion and subdued anger ... Conversation preserves a blues history that would otherwise have disappeared.' Wire
Book Description
Compiled from transcriptions of interviews with blues artists made by Paul Oliver in 1960, Conversation with the Blues tells--in the artists' own words--of the significance of their music and the turbulent times and lives it reflects. Included are guitarists, pianists and other instrumentalists from the rural South and the urban North, from famous blues singers who recorded extensively to singers known only to their local communities. Copiously illustrated with Paul Oliver's photographs the book provides a rare glimpse--from cotton fields to the big-city--of African American music at a time when the South was still segregated. In a larger format to better display the pictures and with a new introduction by the author, this edition also contains a CD that captures the stark, ironic, but moving music and narratives of the singers themselves.
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Conversation with the Blues CD included
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