Moloch Blues

Author : Phillip Hayes Dean
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822215141
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moloch Blues written by Phillip Hayes Dean and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1996 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORIES: THE OWL KILLER. Conditioned by a lifetime of resigned acceptance, Noah Hamilton can only turn against his renegade son, Lamar, who has killed and mutilated a man and is now in hiding. A petty tyrant, who compensates for his own frustra

Author : William Bearden
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738542379
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memphis Blues written by William Bearden and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The blues was born in the Mississippi Delta, and since that fateful night in 1903 when W. C. Handy heard the mournful sound of a pocketknife sliding over the strings of an acoustic guitar and the plaintive song of a long-forgotten musician in the hot night of Tutwiler, Mississippi, the blues has been on a journey around the world. From the cotton fields and juke joints of the Delta, up Highway 61 to Memphis's Beale Street, St. Louis, the Southside of Chicago, England, and points beyond, the blues is America's unique form of music. Blues is incisive in its honesty, elemental in its rhythm, and powerful in its almost visceral sensation. Nearly every style of popular music has its roots in the blues. Muddy Waters said it best: "The blues had a baby, and they called it rock and roll." Memphis has become the heart of the blues world, with a re-born Beale Street acting as its spiritual center. People come from the world over to experience its beat, savor its emotion, and feel its power. In the end . . . "it ain't nothin' but the blues."

Author : Stanley Booth
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1641601094
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Hot and Blue written by Stanley Booth and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of over fifty years of writing about the South and its music by Stanley Booth, one of the undisputedly great chroniclers of the subject, is a classic, essential read. Booth's close contacts with many of the musicians he writes about provide a gateway to truly understanding the music and culture of Memphis and other blues strongholds in the South. Subjects include Elvis Presley, Otis Redding, William Eggleston, Ma Rainey, Blind Willie McTell, Graceland, Beale Street and much more.

Author : Robert Gordon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743410459
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book It Came From Memphis written by Robert Gordon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-11 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gordon's critically acclaimed and richly entertaining exploration of the birthplace of rock and roll is peopled with Delta bluesmen, manic deejays, matinee cowboys and Elvis.

Author : Mervyn Thompson
Publisher : Victoria University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780864730459
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coaltown Blues written by Mervyn Thompson and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822223962
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Author : Phillip Hayes Dean
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780822210917
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sty of the Blind Pig written by Phillip Hayes Dean and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1972 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The place is Chicago's south side and the time the 1950s, just before the civil rights movement began to burgeon. Alberta, unmarried and in her thirties, shares an apartment with her mother, Weedy, an old-fashioned black woman who finds

Author : Phillip Hayes Dean
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822215158
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paul Robeson written by Phillip Hayes Dean and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1997 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: A powerful chronicle of the life of Paul Robeson, taking us from his childhood in New Jersey to his adult life around the world. An All-American athlete and a lawyer with Columbia Law School credentials, Robeson faces the racism prevalen

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Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Author : Jim Dickinson
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496811186
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I'm Just Dead, I'm Not Gone written by Jim Dickinson and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2017-03-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I'm Just Dead, I'm Not Gone chronicles Jim Dickinson's extraordinary life in the Memphis music scene of the fifties and sixties and how he went on to play with and produce a rich array of artists, including Aretha Franklin, the Rolling Stones, Ry Cooder, Duane Allman, Arlo Guthrie, and Albert King. With verve and wit, Dickinson (1941-2009) describes his trip to Blind Lemon's grave on the Texas flatlands as a college student and how that encounter inspired his return to Memphis. Back home, he looked up Gus Cannon and Furry Lewis, began staging plays, cofounded what would become the annual Memphis Blues Festival, and started recording. The blues, Elvis, and early rock "n" roll compelled Dickinson to reject racial barriers and spurred his contributions to the Memphis music and experimental art scene. He explains how the family yardman, WDIA, Dewey Phillips, Furry Lewis, Will Shade, and Howlin" Wolf shaped him and recounts how he went on to learn his craft at Sun, Ardent, American, Muscle Shoals, and Criteria studios from master producers Sam Phillips, John Fry, Chips Moman, and Jerry Wexler. Dickinson is a member of the Mississippi Music Hall of Fame and an inaugural inductee of the Memphis Music Hall of Fame. He has received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Engineering and Production from the Americana Music Association, a Brass Note on the Beale Street Walk of Fame in Memphis, and a Heritage Marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail. This memoir recounts a love affair with Memphis, the blues, and rock "n" roll through Dickinson's captivating blend of intelligence, humor, and candor.