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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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  • 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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  • Guitar Slim: Long Cord, Loud Suit

    The Roots of the Blues, #19

    by Simon Godfrey ...
    Series Book 19 - The Roots of the Blues
    GUITAR SLIMLong Cord, Loud SuitHe rode into the club on another man's shoulders, dressed in a suit the color of a fire truck, his hair dyed to match — and he was still playing guitar.Eddie "Guitar Slim" Jones didn't just perform the blues. He staged it. A three-hundred-foot guitar cord let him leave the building mid-solo, walk out onto the street still playing, and saunter back in to find the ... 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • The Strangers' Tide

    The Broken Coast, #1

    by Simon Godfrey ...
    Series Book 1 - The Broken Coast
    On the misted shores where three peoples have kept their fires apart, and in balance, for longer than any story remembers, a child presses an ear to a driftwood log and whispers that something is coming. By dawn the smoke on the wind has a taste no one knows. Below Cedar Point a camp has risen in straight lines, full of men who move as one body and carry sticks that speak.The Strangers offer trade ... Read more

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