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 barrelhous... Lees meer.

A pioneering scholar of the blues explores the folk traditions that predated and shaped this uniquely American music as we know it. In the 1920s Southern record companies ventured to cities like Dallas Atlanta and New Orleans where they set up primitive recording... Lees meer.

This is the most important instruction guide to blues style piano playing in print. It covers all styles of playing from 1900 to the present day and includes transcriptions of the recordings of twenty-two of the greatest exponents of barrelhouse and boogie piano. Among... Lees meer.

In this first biography of Johnny Otis George Lipsitz tells the largely unknown story of a towering figure in the history of African American music and culture who was by his own description black by persuasion. This chronicle of a life rich in both incident and in... Lees meer.

Considered by many to be the godfather of R B Johnny Otis musician producer artist entrepreneur pastor disc jockey writer and tireless fighter for racial equality has had a remarkable life by any measure. In this first biography of Otis George Lipsitz tells th... Lees meer.