Barrelhouse Blues
Location Recording and the Early Traditions of the Blues
- Hardcover
240 pages
- Release Date
25 August 2009
Summary
In the 1920s, Southern record companies ventured to cities like Dallas, Atlanta, and New Orleans, where they set up primitive recording equipment in makeshift studios. They brought in street singers, medicine show performers, pianists from the juke joints and barrelhouses. The music that circulated through Southern work camps, prison farms, and vaudeville shows would be lost to us if it hadn’t been captured on location by these performers and recorders. Eminent blues historian Paul Oliver unc…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780465008810 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 046500881X |
| Author: | Paul Oliver |
| Publisher: | Basic Books |
| Imprint: | Basic Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 25 August 2009 |
| Weight: | 428g |
| Dimensions: | 223mm x 148mm x 20mm |
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Critics Review
The Philadelphia Inquirer “Detailed and deeply felt, Barrelhouse Blues is quite the education.” Examiner.com “Oliver’s research is deep and his opinions raise questions, but his is a fine book for any blues fan yearning to learn about its origins.”
About The Author
Paul Oliver
Paul Oliver is an eminent writer on the history of the blues. From an early age he collected blues records and books on the blues, publishing his first article in Jazz Journal in 1951. Since that time he has published dozens of books on the history of the blues and blues music, including Conversations with the Blues, The Story of the Blues, and Blues Fell this Morning. He lives in Oxford, England.
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