Chasin' That Devil's Music,: Searching for the Blues (with CD)
by Gayle Dean Wardlow
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/None
- ISBN 10
- 0879305525
- ISBN 13
- 9780879305529
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About This Item
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 #
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- 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, , .
- Bookseller catalogs
- Music;
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