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"Blues" music was created to chase away gloom... The Happy-go-lucky songs of the Southern Negro we call "Blues" - W. C. Handy, 1919. "The Father of the Blues" points out that you've got to be happy if you want to sing the Blues. Quoted by Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff in "They Cert'ly Sound Good To Me: Sheet Music, Southern Vaudeville, And The Commercial Ascendancy Of The Blues" in Ramblin' On My Mind, David Evans, ed
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0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic. So, a new book about Clapton? 👹LOVE IT..... Contents Acknowledgments Prologue Introduction Sylvester Weaver: The First Blues Guitarist on Record Papa Charlie Jackson: Six-String Stylist, Flat-Picking Pioneer Blind Lemon Jefferson: Popular from Coast to Coast Blind Blake: King of Ragtime Blues Guitar Blind Willie McTell: Atlanta?s 12-String King Blind Willie Johnson: Sublime Gospel Blues Lonnie Johnson: The Era?s Most Influential Blues Guitarist Mississippi John Hurt: Songster and Bluesman Tampa Red: "The Guitar Wizard" Notes Index Pages: [1] Go Up
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