Blues Traveling : The Holy Sites of Delta Blues.
Başlık:
Blues Traveling : The Holy Sites of Delta Blues.
Yazar:
Cheseborough, Steve.
ISBN:
9781604733280
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Basım Bilgisi:
3rd ed.
Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 online resource (252 pages)
İçerik:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Looking for the Blues -- Blues Traveling through History -- State Blues Markers -- Planning Your Blues Tour -- Guidelines for Good Times -- Chapter 2: Memphis -- Beale Street -- Away from Beale Street -- Chapter 3: Down Highway 61 -- Highway 61 -- Old Highway 61 -- Walls -- Robinsonville -- Tunica -- Lula -- Friar's Point -- Helena, Ark. -- Chapter 4: The Clarksdale Area -- Clarksdale -- Stovall -- Farrell -- Lambert -- Chapter 5: The Mid-Delta -- Tutwiler -- Parchman -- Shelby -- Mound Bayou -- Merigold -- Cleveland -- Rosedale -- Beulah -- Dockery -- Boyle -- Drew -- Ruleville -- Glendora -- Chapter 6: The Greenwood Area -- Greenwood -- North of Greenwood -- Avalon -- Valley -- Carrollton -- Duck Hall -- Itta Bena -- Blue Lake -- Quito -- Morgan City -- Moorhead -- Chapter 7: Greenville to Vicksburg -- Greenville -- Metcalfe -- Leland -- Bourbon -- Holly Ridge -- Indianola -- Belzoni -- Hollandale -- Murphy -- Panther Burn -- Rolling Fork -- Vicksburg -- Chapter 8: The Jackson Area -- Jackson -- Ebenezer -- Bentonia -- Yazoo City -- Crystal Springs -- Hazlehurst -- Renfroe Valley -- Varnado, La. -- Port Gibson -- Natchez -- Chapter 9: East Mississippi -- Meridian -- Crawford -- West Point -- Whites (White Station) -- Aberdeen -- Tupelo -- Chapter 10: North Mississippi Hill Country -- Oxford -- Water Valley -- Abbeville -- Holly Springs -- Chulahoma -- Hudsonville -- Como -- Senatobia -- Harmontown -- Gravel Springs -- Sardis -- Hernando-Nesbit -- Recommended Reading -- Recommended Listening -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Özet:
At a crossroads in the Mississippi Delta, Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the Devil so that he could become a guitar virtuoso and King of the Delta Blues. Blues Traveling: The Holy Sites of Delta Blues will tell you where that legendary deal was supposed to have been made and guide you to all the other hallowed grounds that nourished Mississippi's signature music. Johnson, Mississippi John Hurt, Memphis Minnie, Jimmie Rodgers, Bessie Smith, Muddy Waters, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Howlin' Wolf, B. B. King, Little Milton, Elvis Presley, Bobby Rush, Junior Kimbrough, R. L. Burnside-the list of great artists with Mississippi connections goes on and on. A trip through Mississippi blues sites is a pilgrimage every music lover ought to make at least once in a lifetime, to see the juke joints and churches, to visit the birthplaces and graves of blues greats, to walk down the dusty roads and over the levee, to eat some barbecue and greens, to sit on the bank of the Mississippi River, and to hear some down-home blues music. Blues Traveling is the first and only guidebook to Mississippi's musical places and blues history. With photographs, maps, easy-to-follow directions, and an informative, entertaining text, this book will lead you in and out of Clarksdale, Greenwood, Helena (Arkansas), Rolling Fork, Jackson, Natchez, Bentonia, Rosedale, Itta Bena, and dozens of other locales that generations of blues musicians have lived in, traveled through, and sung about. Stories, legends, and lyrics are woven into the text so that each backroad and barroom comes alive. Touring Mississippi with Blues Traveling is like having a knowledgeable and entertaining guide at your side. Even people with no immediate plans to visit Mississippi will enjoy reading the book for its photos, descriptions, and lore that will broaden their understanding and enhance
their appreciation of the blues. Steve Cheseborough is an independent scholar and blues musician. His work has been published in Living Blues , Blues Access , Mississippi , and the Southern Register .
Notlar:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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