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Talking Guitar : Conversations with Musicians Who Shaped Twentieth-Century American Music
Title
Talking Guitar : Conversations with Musicians Who Shaped Twentieth-Century American Music / Jas Obrecht.
ISBN
9781469669380
9781469669373
9781469631653
9781469631646
Publication
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press in association with the Southern Folklife Collection, the Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library, [2017]
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2022
Copyright Notice Date
©[2017]
Physical Description
1 online resource (320 pages): illustrations
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on print version record.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
"Jas Obrecht presents a celebration of the world's most popular instrument as seen through the words, lives, and artistry of some of its most beloved players. Readers will read--and hear--accounts of the first guitarists on record, pioneering bluesmen, gospel greats, jazz innovators, country pickers, rocking rebels, psychedelic shape-shifters, singer-songwriters, and other movers and shakers. In their own words, these guitar players reveal how they found their inspirations, mastered their instruments, crafted classic songs, and created enduring solos"-- Provided by publisher
Variant and related titles
Project Muse books annual backfile collection 2022.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 17, 2023
Contents
Guitarchaeology : setting the stage
Nick Lucas : America's first guitar hero
Ry Cooder : prewar country blues
Barney Kessel : the rise of Charlie Christian
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown : "American music, Texas-style"
Roebuck "Pops" Staples : gospel guitar
Ricky Nelson : remembering rockabilly
Carol Kaye : the first lady of rock
Stevie Ray Vaughan : on Jimi Hendrix
James Gurley : "the Yuri Gagarin of psychedelic guitar"
Jerry Garcia : "it's the next note, not the last one"
Johnny Winter : sliding the blues
Gregg Allman : "my brother Duane"
Carlos Santana : "put wings on people's hearts"
Neil Young : the power of one note
Eddie Van Halen : "my first interview"
Tom Petty : songwriting and the art of rhythm guitar
Eric Johnson : the journey inward
Joe Satriani : the resurgence of instrumental rock
Ben Harper : "the strongest spirit in all creation."
Subjects
Genre/Form
Interviews.
Interviews.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
interviews.
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