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  • Things You Never Knew About Fabulous Science Myths

    Things You Never Knew About, #1

    by Simon Godfrey ...
    Series Book 1 - Things You Never Knew About
    Things You Never Knew About Fabulous Science MythsThe apple didn't hit him. The bull doesn't care about red. And your toilet has no opinion on hemispheres.Archimedes never sprinted naked through the streets of Syracuse (as far as anyone can prove). Kekulé's dream about a snake ate its own tail thirty years after the discovery it supposedly caused, at a dinner held in his honour. Galileo probably ... Read more

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  • The Blues They Found

    by Simon Godfrey ...
    The Forgotten Story of the Blues Boom in BritainIn October 1958 a Chicago guitarist walked onto a Leeds stage with a Fender Telecaster turned up louder than anything the room had ever heard. Some walked out. The papers called it "screaming guitar and howling piano." A handful of young Britons stayed, listened, and began a quiet, stubborn search that would reshape popular music.This is not the ... Read more

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  • James Cotton: Mr Superharp

    The Roots of the Blues, #17

    by Simon Godfrey ...
    Series Book 17 - The Roots of the Blues
    The voice is gone, but the wind is still there.Born on a Mississippi plantation and raised in the raw, demanding world of Delta blues, James Cotton learned the harmonica from Sonny Boy Williamson II before he was old enough to enter a juke joint. As a teenager, he played alongside Howlin' Wolf. In Chicago, he became Muddy Waters' harmonica player and bandleader, standing at the heart of the music ... Read more

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  • Slim Harpo: King Bee of the Swamp Blues

    The Roots of the Blues, #1

    by Simon Godfrey ...
    Series Book 1 - The Roots of the Blues
    Slim Harpo: King Bee of the Swamp Blues tells the remarkable story of James Isaac Moore, the Louisiana singer, harmonica player and songwriter who helped define swamp blues and left a lasting mark on rock and popular music. Drawing on his Baton Rouge roots, his rise through the local club scene, and his crucial partnership with producer Jay Miller, Simon Godfrey traces how Harpo developed a sound ... Read more

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  • Peetie Wheatstraw: The High Sheriff from Hell

    The Roots of the Blues, #16

    by Simon Godfrey ...
    Series Book 16 - The Roots of the Blues
    Before Robert Johnson's devil haunted the crossroads, Peetie Wheatstraw was already laughing with the Devil's daughter.Born William Bunch, the son of Arkansas sharecroppers, Wheatstraw arrived in East St. Louis in 1929 with little more than a self-taught knowledge of piano and guitar—and a shrewd understanding of how to make himself heard. Within a year, he had transformed himself into "Peetie ... Read more

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  • Scrapper Blackwell: Borrowed Blues

    The Roots of the Blues, #15

    by Simon Godfrey ...
    Series Book 15 - The Roots of the Blues
    SCRAPPER BLACKWELL: BORROWED BLUESHe helped shape the sound of the blues. Then the world forgot his name.Before Robert Johnson recorded "Sweet Home Chicago," Scrapper Blackwell was already playing the guitar lines that would help shape its musical ancestry.A brilliant, unconventional guitarist from Indianapolis, Blackwell became half of one of the greatest partnerships in early blues when he ... Read more

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  • Albert Collins: Master of the Telecaster

    The Roots of the Blues, #12

    by Simon Godfrey ...
    Series Book 12 - The Roots of the Blues
    For more than thirty years, Albert Collins built a fierce reputation in clubs and juke joints long before the wider world took notice.Known as the Master of the Telecaster, Collins created one of the most distinctive sounds in blues: sharp, percussive and instantly recognisable. His unusual open tuning, bare-fingered attack, sliding capo and piercing electric tone produced music that felt both icy ... Read more

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  • Robert Cray: Strong Persuader

    The Roots of the Blues, #10

    by Simon Godfrey ...
    Series Book 10 - The Roots of the Blues
    Robert Cray: Strong Persuader is the story of a musician who helped bring the blues back into the mainstream without compromising its soul.Raised in a military family and shaped by music that travelled with him from one posting to the next, Robert Cray found his calling through rhythm and blues, gospel, soul, and the electric blues of Albert Collins. From Tacoma bar bands and the clubs of Eugene, ... Read more

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  • Magic Sam: The West Side Sound and the Blues That Got Away

    The Roots of the Blues, #7

    by Simon Godfrey ...
    Series Book 7 - The Roots of the Blues
    MAGIC SAM: The West Side Sound and the Blues That Got AwayOn the morning of December 1, 1969, Sam Maghett collapsed in his own home, three weeks after his thirty-second birthday — at the exact moment his career was finally catching up to his talent. A Stax contract was being negotiated. A European tour was on the calendar. Weeks earlier, he'd torn apart the Ann Arbor Blues Festival alongside ... Read more

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  • Otis Rush: Double Trouble

    The Roots of the Blues, #14

    by Simon Godfrey ...
    Series Book 14 - The Roots of the Blues
    Play "Double Trouble" for someone who's never heard the name Otis Rush, and watch their face change. That minor-key ache. That guitar answering the voice like a second singer picking a fight. Somewhere around the second chorus, they'll ask who this is — and you'll have to explain that you're probably the first person who ever told them.Eric Clapton names him as one of his three foundational ... Read more

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  • Little Milton: The Blues Is Alright

    The Roots of the Blues, #13

    by Simon Godfrey ...
    Series Book 13 - The Roots of the Blues
    "What's the point in listening to us doing it when you can listen to Slim Harpo doing it?" Mick Jagger asked that about a different Louisiana bluesman. He could just as easily have said it about Little Milton.James Milton Campbell Jr. started with a piece of wire nailed to the side of a Mississippi farmhouse and cotton-field wages saved up for a mail-order guitar. He ended up with a number-one ... Read more

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  • Professor Longhair: Fess

    The Roots of the Blues, #11

    by Simon Godfrey ...
    Series Book 11 - The Roots of the Blues
    FESS: The Life and Music of Professor LonghairEvery Mardi Gras, New Orleans plays a song almost nobody remembers writing. "Go to the Mardi Gras" comes out of radios and brass bands and bar bands across the city like it's always existed — because for most of the people singing along, it has. The man who wrote it spent a decade of his life sweeping the floor of a record shop that still had his own ... Read more

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