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  • Freddie King: The Texas Cannonball

    The Roots of the Blues, #9

    by Simon Godfrey ...
    Series Book 9 - The Roots of the Blues
    Freddie King: The Texas CannonballHe was the guitarist other guitarists studied in secret. Eric Clapton learned "Hide Away" note by note from a hard-to-find record. Stevie Ray Vaughan absorbed his phrasing until it became the bedrock of Texas blues. Peter Green, Mick Taylor, Jeff Beck, and a generation of British players built their sound on his licks. Yet for most of his career, Freddie King ... Read more

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  • Albert King: The Velvet Bulldozer

    The Roots of the Blues, #8

    by Simon Godfrey ...
    Series Book 8 - The Roots of the Blues
    Albert King held his guitar wrong.Left-handed, he played a right-handed Flying V flipped upside down — never restrung, strings running backward, bends pulled in a direction no method book ever taught. It wasn't a style choice. It was what a poor kid in Depression-era Arkansas did when there was no money for the "correct" instrument and no one around to say otherwise.That accident became one of the ... 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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  • 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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  • Mamie Smith: Crazy Blues

    The Roots of the Blues, #6

    by Simon Godfrey ...
    Series Book 6 - The Roots of the Blues
    CRAZY BLUESMamie Smith and the Three Minutes That Changed American MusicOn August 10, 1920, a vaudeville singer named Mamie Smith stepped in front of a recording horn in a cramped New York studio and sang a song called "Crazy Blues." She was not the artist any label had been looking for. She was, by one account, a last-minute stand-in for a white singer who never showed. What happened next ... Read more

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  • Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup: The Father of Rock ‘n’ Roll

    The Roots of the Blues, #2

    by Simon Godfrey ...
    Series Book 2 - The Roots of the Blues
    He wrote the songs. Elvis got the fame.Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup was a Mississippi bluesman who could stop a room with nothing more than a guitar, a voice, and a perfectly placed pause. In the 1940s he recorded a handful of songs built so soundly that they would go on to shape the course of American popular music — including "That's All Right," the song a young Elvis Presley chose to record first, ... Read more

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  • Big Joe Williams: The Roving King of the Nine-String Guitar

    The Roots of the Blues, #3

    by Simon Godfrey ...
    Series Book 3 - The Roots of the Blues
    He built his first guitar with one string and whatever the swamp offered. He never really stopped.Born in 1903 on the edge of Mississippi's Noxubee Swamp, Joseph Lee Williams left home as a teenager and spent the next six decades proving that a blues musician's real instrument was motion itself — riding rails, working levee camps, touring with travelling minstrel shows, and turning up wherever a ... Read more

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  • Sunnyland Slim: From the Delta to Chicago

    The Roots of the Blues, #5

    by Simon Godfrey ...
    Series Book 5 - The Roots of the Blues
    "The man who brought Muddy Waters to the session that started it all — and then kept showing up for the next seventy years."In August 1947, a working pianist brought a young guitarist he believed in to a Chicago recording session. That guitarist was Muddy Waters. The label became Chess Records. And the man who made the introduction, Sunnyland Slim, spent the next seven decades doing the same thing ... Read more

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  • Jimmy Reed: His Life and Unquiet Times

    The Roots of the Blues, #4

    by Simon Godfrey ...
    Series Book 4 - The Roots of the Blues
    He never sang louder than a man leaning against a doorway, and never played a riff he couldn't repeat in his sleep. Yet Jimmy Reed—Mississippi sharecropper's son, Chicago steelworker, self-taught bluesman—wrote more songs other people wanted to sing than almost anyone of his generation. "Baby What You Want Me to Do." "Big Boss Man." "Bright Lights, Big City." The Rolling Stones learned from him. ... Read more

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  • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: pocketbook

    by Peter Barnes, Simon Godfrey ...
    This book provides an up-to-date perspective on the inflammatory cells, mediators, and molecular pathology of Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), emphasizing the urgent need to clearly understand the underlying cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in COPD. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Wheezing Disorders in the Pre-School Child

    Pathogenesis and Management

    by Fernando D. Martinez, Simon Godfrey ...
    The infant with persistent or recurrent wheeze during the first 2 years of life poses a particularly difficult diagnostic dilemma, which can be a source of considerable anxiety to both physicians and parents. Without neglecting basic science, Wheezing Disorders in the Preschool Child presents information in a logical and readable fashion that is pa ... Read more

    $171.99 USD

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    The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music

    by Ted Gioia ...
    “The essential history of this distinctly American genre.”—Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionIn this “expertly researched, elegantly written, dispassionate yet thoughtful history” (Gary Giddins), award-winning author Ted Gioia gives us “the rare combination of a tome that is both deeply informative and enjoyable to read” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). From the field hollers of nineteenth-century ... Read more

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