The prolific magazine Blues & Rhythm: The Gospel Truth was founded in London in 1984 by British blues collector and pundit Paul Vernon to provide a complementary but more wide-ranging and timely voice to the [...]
This book by Blues scholar Gayle Dean Wardlow reveals the stories behind the great Blues pioneers, some in their own words. As a Mississippi journalist, Wardlow began searching the Delta in the early 1960s for [...]
Blues People: Negro Music in White America by LeRoi Jones, first published in 1963 by William Morrow, was the first book on blues written by an African-American critic. Jones, who later changed his name to [...]
Feel Like Going Home: Portraits in Blues & Rock 'n' Roll, by Peter Guralnick, New York: Outerbrdige & Dienstfrey, 1971. Feel Like Going Home was the first in an impressive line of highly acclaimed books [...]
London: Cassell, and New York: Horizon Press, 1965. British author Paul Oliver wrote authoritatively on the blues in a number of contexts, ranging from historical surveys and examinations of the music’s African roots to biographical [...]
London: Cassell & Company, Ltd., 1955. Before authors Sam Charters and Paul Oliver published their pioneering histories of the blues, bluesman Big Bill Broonzy took it upon himself to do a book about the blues [...]
The first in British blues authority Paul Oliver’s series of books documenting the history and analyzing the blues, Blues Fell This Morning was a landmark work in its interpretation of the language, lyrics, and subject [...]
The first English-language magazine devoted (almost) wholly to blues, Blues Unlimited, was founded as The Journal of the Blues Appreciation Society in Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex, England, in 1963. Society co-founders Simon Napier and Mike Leadbitter enlisted [...]
London and New York: Quartet Books, 1989. The multifaceted story of Willie Dixon--songwriter, producer, bassist, music publisher, singer, promoter, and more--is told by an equally wide-ranging and impressive cast of musicians (primarily Dixon himself), studio [...]
New York: Rinehart and Co., Inc., 1959. Reprinted with new introduction by the author: New York: Da Capo Press, 1975. The publication of The Country Blues by Sam Charters in 1959 was a major landmark [...]