Topic: Country Blues road trip... in Texas!

[dj]

You can click Tags, then Blues and Gospel Records for links to a couple of threads, one that discusses availability of the book and another discussing its contents.

[Rivers]

Here's the weeniepedia page dj put together: http://weeniecampbell.com/wiki/index.php?title=Dixon%2C_Robert_M._W.%2C_Godrich%2C_John%2C_and_Rye%2C_Howard:_Blues_And_Gospel_Records_1890_-_1943%2C_Fourth_Edition

On the weeniepedia page you can click on the 'ISBN' number, I notice there's 1 (one) copy for sale on Amazon. It goes in and out of print like the Assyrian empire. Really, as BH said, it is the Bible for serious CB weenies.

[dj]

It goes in and out of print like the Assyrian empire.

Gotta say I love that simile!

[Bunker Hill]

It goes in and out of print like the Assyrian empire.

Gotta say I love that simile!

I fear that the likelihood of B&GR4 being reprinted again is pretty slim. My copy of the current edition is now in the same state as the previous three, thoroughly annotated throughout in red biro.

[TX_Songster]

Thanks for the scoop on BB&R.  I feel like I've been going to church all along and just found out there is a Bible!

[Bunker Hill]

Thanks for the scoop on BB&R.  I feel like I've been going to church all along and just found out there is a Bible!

Nice one. To paraphrase a song title from the 1940s gospel quartet The Southern Sons "praise the Lord and pass the B&GR". In the Sons case it was ammunition being passed around!
 

[Johnm]

Hi all,
The great singer and pianist Curtis Jones was from Cass County, Texas.  If you expand the trip to include Jazz players from Texas, Ornette Coleman and Dewey Redman were both from Ft. Worth.
All best,
Johnm