Chasin' That Devil's Music Searching for the Blues - Book/CD (Softcover)
by Gayle Dean Wardlow
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Author: Gayle Dean WardlowBrand: Miller Freeman
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1998
ISBN: 0879305525
Number of pages: 272
Model: 330429
Publisher: Backbeat Books
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- Published by Backbeat Books 272 Pages
- (270 pages, 6 inch. x 9 inch.) Book/CD Pack by Gayle Dean Wardlow edited with an introduction by Edw
- Author: Gayle Dean Wardlow
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Book Review: "They forgott,but I know better"
Summary: 3 Stars
Am I the only one who noticed that this is not a book about ancient blues masters but a monument to its author? Come on,folks,read between the lines - Wardlow talks to old blues musicians just to add his own (patronising) remarks how they forgott everything and he knows better.The argument about King Solomon Hill is nothing but one big ego-trip,he was frustrated for 18 years because his theory was ridiculed at the time,so now he can point that he was right the whole time.Wardlow never mentioned why he got hooked on blues music in the first place (except that he found that old 78 records were collectors items) but through the whole book (collection of articles) shows his white-boy-turns-blues-knows-it-all attitude,treating blues music with intellectualism typical for someone who collect recording dates and musician's names,just so he can later point that he knows those dates and names better than old musicians who recorded them.True,if its not for Wardlow and people like him,many of these names would be completely forgotten,but I find his writting style annoying and CD is the best thing about the whole book.
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