Blues for Dummies
by Lonnie Brooks, Cub Koda, Wayne Baker Brooks
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Author: Cub Koda, Lonnie Brooks, Wayne Baker BrooksForeword: Dan Aykroyd
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1998-08-13
ISBN: 0764550802
Number of pages: 400
Publisher: For Dummies
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Book Review: Good INTRO book
Summary: 4 Stars
If you already know the difference between Delta, Chicago, and Piedmont blues and know more than just Robert-Johnson-Muddy-BB-Sonny Boy-Buddy-John Lee-whoever, you don't need this book. If you really don't know just how diverse the blues really is, how long a history it has, or how influential it has been, this book is a reasonable starting point. You'll get oriented to the major sub-genres, artists, instrumentation, music forms, and milestones. The CD provides a very brief audio guide by giving you samples of various types of blues, using well-known examples.
There's much left out and much that's simplified, but the major points are made, and that's the intent of the book. It succeeds very well.
Once you've digested this, I can recommend "Nothing But the Blues" as a next book: Nothing But the Blues : The Music and the Musicians, which will give you a deeper dive across the history of the blues.
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