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Rollin' and Tumblin': The Postwar Blues Guitarists
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Rollin' and Tumblin': The Postwar Blues Guitarists Paperback - 2000

by Jas Obrecht; Jas Obrecht (Editor)

"Rollin' & Tumblin'" journeys to the heart of America's most beloved music. It features interviews with dozens of world-famous bluesmen and profiles such historic figures a Lightnin' Hopkins, T-Bone Walker, Elmore James, Jimmie Reed, and Freddie King. Opens with a sweeping history of blues guitar. 60 photos.


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This is the most comprehensive and insightful study ever published on the pioneers of electric blues guitar - including the great Chicago, Mississippi Delta, Louisiana, Texas and West Coast bluesmen. Rollin' and Tumblin' offers extensive interviews with some of the world's most famous blues guitarists, and poignant profiles of historical blues figures. Following a sweeping portrait of blues guitar history, the book features such players as T-Bone Walker, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Lightnin' Hopkins and many more.

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T-Bone Walker struck the stormy world of the blues like a lightning bolt from the heavens.

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  • Title Rollin' and Tumblin': The Postwar Blues Guitarists
  • Author Jas Obrecht; Jas Obrecht (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 466
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Backbeat Books, San Francisco
  • Date 2000-07-01
  • ISBN 9780879306137 / 0879306130
  • Weight 1.43 lbs (0.65 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.94 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 2.39 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Guitarists - United States, Blues musicians - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00028815
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Citations

  • Booklist, 12/15/1999, Page 768
  • Reference and Research Bk News, 11/01/2000, Page 143
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