The Story Of The Blues
by Paul Oliver
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Author: Paul OliverEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1998-04-30
ISBN: 155553354X
Number of pages: 212
Publisher: Northeastern
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Book Review: Not for the simply curious
Summary: 3 Stars
If you are looking for a really informative book with some depth to it as an introduction to the blues, this isn't it. Reading the Story of the Blues can become a bit dizzying. Such an extremely large number of artists are introduced at such a mind-numbing rapidity that you find you can't remember a thing about any of them and you doubt whether you would be able to find any of their work at the record store anyway. When you finally to get something about Robert Johnson at page 133, he is dispatched after a couple of pages, which I found pretty disappointing. The portraits of the blues artists are so superficially done and so numerous, that I found the book unsatisfying. If you are looking for a good informative book on the blues with some depth to it, I would suggest either Deep Blues by Robert Palmer or I Feel Like Going Home by Peter Guralnick. I would think this book would be of more interest to experts who are looking for references to relatively obscure Blues figures.
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