Item Detail
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Rucker, Leland
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MusicHound blues : the essential album guide
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Book
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Rev. and updated ed.
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New York, N.Y.
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c2002
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Schirmer Trade Books
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xxii, 551 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Foreword by Al Kooper
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0825672678; 9780825672675
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Blues (Music)--Discography--Sound recordings--Reviews.
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Sound Recordings; Blues Music; Blues Records; Albums
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ML 156.4 .B6 M85 2002
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Rucker, Leland. MusicHound Blues: The Essential Album Guide. Rev. and updated ed. New York: Schirmer Trade Books, 2002.
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MusicHounds' Blues Guide is a guide to help the beginning blues listener find music to become acquainted with the blues style.
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This discography contains artists and groups that perform and record blues music according to MusicHounds' definition of Blues. They included artists whose works are currently available through compact discs. When choosing artists to include and deciding what to write in their bibliographies they asked two questions: Why is he or she important? and What is his or her contribution?
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Organized alphabetically by last name of a solo artist, or first word of a bands name. Each entry has a small biography of the artist's career, a discography of the artists' albums available on compact disc (this list is also a list of author's recommendations on albums the beginning listener should buy), a list of people that influenced the reader and a list of groups that the performer influenced.
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Bristol, Marc. Blue Suede News 42 (Spring 1998): 38.
Jordon, Miles. Jazz Times, America's Jazz Magazine 29 (August 1999): 78.
Cooper, B. Lee. Popular Music and Society 24 (Spring 2000): 121-22.
Smith, Tierney. Relix 22 (April 1998): 58. -
BYU Mus Ref
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4179