Talking guitar : conversations with musicians who shaped twentieth-century American music

Book + CD 2017

"Jas Obrecht presents a celebration of the world's most popular instrument as seen through the words, lives, and artistry of some of its most beloved players. Readers will read--and hear--accounts of the first guitarists on record, pioneering bluesmen, gospel greats, jazz innovators, country pickers, rocking rebels, psychedelic shape-shifters, singer-songwriters, and other movers and shakers. In their own words, these guitar players reveal how th...

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Popular music United States 20th century History and criticism

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ISBN:

9781469631646

Description:

307 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm + 1 audio disc (4 3/4 inches)
4 3/4 in
1.4 m/s
stereo
digital recording

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Guitarchaeology : setting the stage
Nick Lucas : America's first guitar hero
Ry Cooder : prewar country blues
Barney Kessel : the rise of Charlie Christian
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown : "American music, Texas-style"
Roebuck "Pops" Staples : gospel guitar
Ricky Nelson : remembering rockabilly
Carol Kaye : the first lady of rock
Stevie Ray Vaughan : on Jimi Hendrix
James Gurley : "the Yuri Gagarin of psychedelic guitar"
Jerry Garcia : "it's the next note, not the last one"
Johnny Winter : sliding the blues
Gregg Allman : "my brother Duane"
Carlos Santana : "put wings on people's hearts"
Neil Young : the power of one note
Eddie Van Halen : "my first interview"
Tom Petty : songwriting and the art of rhythm guitar
Eric Johnson : the journey inward
Joe Satriani : the resurgence of instrumental rock
Ben Harper : "the strongest spirit in all creation."

LCCN:

2016039783

Control Number:

2133431

Other Authors:

Obrecht, Jas, compiler, interviewer
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection

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