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Country Blues => Weenie Campbell Main Forum => Books and Articles => Topic started by: Bunker Hill on October 20, 2005, 10:43:24 AM
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For the wealthy check this out, due for publication next month:
http://www.routledge-ny.com/ref/blues/index.html
Or recommend that a library invests in it.
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Interesting, and I sincerely hope it does the subject area justice. Given that Dixon Godrich & Rye can fill a whole thick volume covering only one subject area in depth I wonder if two volumes can catch all the rest. I look forward to getting my hands on this. Or maybe I should wait til the 2nd edition, after the ensuing arguments on PWB have subsided!
Bunker, do you know who the contributers and editors are?
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Bunker, do you know who the contributers and editors are?
Just click 'Contributors' in the left hand frame where there are also, A-Z list of entries, sample entries etc.
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Doh, sorry, I missed that. Looks good. Wish it stopped at 19-forty something though. Discussion of some (a lot actually) of what came after, interleaved with the golden age, I know I will find jarring.
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Doh, sorry, I missed that. Looks good. Wish it stopped at 19-forty something though. Discussion of some (a lot actually) of what came after, interleaved with the golden age, I know I will find jarring.
You and me both, you and me both. But then it will appeal even less to a library market. Everybody would have heard of the Rolling Stones or Cream so I guess their inclusion, however inappropriate I personally might think they be, are probably mandatory to get the damned thing sold/distributed.
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To put my purist hat on for a moment, oh OK, it seems to be permanently attached to my head... if they just took a leaf out of DG&R's book (sorry bad pun) and simply picked a cutoff year we wouldn't have to all grit our collective teeth. Together with DG&R it could evolve into a fabulous resource. As it is expect a large proportion to be irrelevant.
I know I'll be thinking as I read through "this is exactly what's wrong with the whole so-called blues world today..." mutter, mutter, groan, gripe, grumble, bitch.
There, now I've reviewed it before even seeing it. But I still want it.
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I was solicited to be a contributor for this project, for several entries, including Bo Weavil Jackson, Whistler's Jug Band, and William Harris. I backed out when I found out that the entries were to be no longer than 40 words or so. You can probably expect a couple of pages on Johnson, but the lesser known folks will, as expected, be more or less ignored.