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Chasin' That Devil's Music,: Searching for the Blues (with CD)

Chasin' That Devil's Music,: Searching for the Blues (with CD)

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Chasin' That Devil's Music,: Searching for the Blues (with CD)

by Gayle Dean Wardlow

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0879305525
ISBN 13
9780879305529
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San Francisco: Backbeat Books, 1998. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 271 pages, b&w illustrations. Chasin' That Devil Music has the feel of a documentary about the making of a thrilling motion picture. The main focus is on the Delta blues singers of the early 20th century--artists such as Charley Patton, Tommy Johnson, Son House, and Blind Lemon Jefferson who've achieved near-mythic status in blues circles. In addition, many of the articles gathered in this splendidly illustrated volume capture the process and people involved in tracking long-lost recordings nearly as elusive as the performers who made them. Here, for example, is the story of author/blues scholar Gayle Dean Wardlow's three-year hunt for the death certificate of Robert Johnson, the celebrated Mississippi bluesman and a figure whose legend has grown greater with each year since his much-debated death in 1938. The text here is nearly as raw in spots as the music that sparked it, but, as with those sounds (which can be heard on a terrific CD sampler included with the book), enthusiasts will find Chasin' That Devil Music riveting. Clean, bright copy. Record # 374292

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Bookseller's Inventory #
374292
Title
Chasin' That Devil's Music,: Searching for the Blues (with CD)
Author
Gayle Dean Wardlow
Format/Binding
Softcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
None
Edition
1st
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10
0879305525
ISBN 13
9780879305529
Publisher
Backbeat Books
Place of Publication
San Francisco
Date Published
1998
Keywords
Music, JazznBlues, , .
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