(Part 2) Best blues music books according to redditors

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We found 45 Reddit comments discussing the best blues music books. We ranked the 23 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.

21. Blues and Gospel Records: 1890-1943

1 mention
Blues and Gospel Records: 1890-1943
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22. The Power of Black Music: Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States

1 mention
The Power of Black Music: Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States
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23. Big in China: My Unlikely Adventures Raising a Family, Playing the Blues, and Becoming a Star in Beijing

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Big in China: My Unlikely Adventures Raising a Family, Playing the Blues, and Becoming a Star in Beijing
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Top Reddit comments about Blues Music:

u/BlackJackKetchum · 3 pointsr/PreWarBlues

Ok, as culled from B&GR:


Victor & Bluebird


  • Feb/March '27 - Memphis - Memphis Jug band, Sadie McKinney, Sister Morgan, A.C & Blind Mamie Forehand, Sadie James, Baby Moore, Rev. E.D Campbell, Williamson's Beale Street Frolic Orchestra, Ollie Rupert

  • July-August '27 - Bristol, Tenn - Johnson Brothers, El Watson

  • Jan-Feb 1928 - Memphis - Jim Jackson, Cannon's Jug Stompers, Lonnire McIntorsh, Harris and Harris, Douglas Williams, Memphis Jug Band, Frank Stokes, Rosie Mae Moore, Tommy Johnson, Ishman Bracey, Elder Richard Bryant, Arthur Petties

  • Sep-Nov 1929 - Memphis - Jim Jackson, Furry Lewis, Frank Stokes, Bessie Tucker, Ida May Mack, K.D Johnson, Ishman Bracey, Tommy Johnson, Douglas Williams, Charlie Kyle, Cannon's Jug Stompers, Robert Wilkins, Memphis Jug Band, Elder Richard Bryant, Rev. Sutton Griggs, Bethel Quartet, REv. E.S Moore, Will Shade.

  • Aug-Nov 1928 - Bristol, Tenn - Tarter & Gay

  • Sep-Nov 1929 - Memphis - Memphis Jug Band, John Estes, Minnie Wallace, Frank Stokes, Hattie Hart, Douglas Williams, Mel Parker, James Rachel, Dixie Nolan-Johnny Hardge, Blind Clyde Church, Elder Tarleton Roberts, Cannon's Jug Stompers, Memphis Sanctified Singers, Noah Lewis.

  • May-June 1930 - Memphis - Memphis Jug Band, John Estes,. Gitfiddle Jim (Kokomo Arnold), Jimmie davis, Shreveport Home Wreckers, Memphis Pullman Porter's Chorus, McCoy & Johnson, Washington ( Booker 'Bukka') White, Rev. M.H Holt, McIntorsh & Ewing, Kaiser Clifton, Bessemer Melody Boys, Douglas Williams, Jimmie Lunceford & His Chickasaw Syncopators

  • Nov 1930 - Memphis - Josephine Jones, Alice Melvin, Willie Kelly, Memphis Jug Band, Cannon's Jug Stompers, Blind Willie Reynolds, Noah Lewis, (Jimmie Davis).


    Columbia / Okeh

  • December 1927 - Memphis - Reubin Lacy, Rev.C.F Thornton, Rev.F.M Cotton, Walter Rhodes, Lewis Black, Rust College Quartet, Pearl Dickson, Chickasaw Syncopators.

  • Feb-March 1928 - Memphis - Jim 'Mooch' Richardson, John Hurt, Nap Hayes & Matthew Prater, Invincible Quartet of Rust College, T.C Johnson & 'Blue Coat' Tom Nelson, I.C Colored Glee Club, Keghouse & Jaybird, Lonnie Johnson, Rev. J.M Gates, Tom Dickson, Elder Richard Bryant's Sanctified Singers


    Brunswick / Vocalion


  • Aug-Nov 1929 - Knoxville - Will Bennett, Leola B Manning, Odessa Canselor, Gace Haynes & Eugene Bellenger, Senior Chapel Quartette

  • Aug-Nov 1929 - Memphis - Charlie McCoy, Walter Vincent, Furry Lewis, Speckled Red, Robert Wilkins, Jenny Pope, Joe Williams, Jed Davenport, Garfield Akers, Jim Jackson, Joe Calicott, Kid Bailey, Betty Perkins.

  • Feb-April 1930 - Memphis - Memphis Minnie, Kansas Joe, Jed davenport, The Yo-Yo BOys, Robert Wilkins, Jenny Pope, Jab Jones, Jim Thompkins, Mattie Delaney, Nathan Scott, Brother Williams' Memphis Sanctified Singers, Madelyn James, Holy Ghost Sanctified Singers, Walter Vincent, Charles McCoy, Jim Jackson.

  • Feb-April 1930 - Knoxville - Tennessee Chocolate Drops, Leola B.Manning.


    ARC

  • June-July 1939 - Memphis - Little Buddy Doyle, Charlie Burse, Blind Boy Fuller, Bull City Red, Sonny Jones, James De Berry, Jack Kelly


    Apparently some field recordings were done too.


u/Hopfrogg · 1 pointr/China

Couple of recommendations:

First, here is a great book about an expat who started jamming with some Chinese musicians and eventually they became a pretty big band in China. He had a Gibson ES-335 shipped over and the neck was snapped when it arrived. As a guitar player, you probably just cringed at the thought of that.

Soooo.... you might want to think twice about bringing instruments over. You didn't mention where you are heading, but it sounds like you are looking for knock-offs and as you know, just about all knock offs are made in China. Epiphone's main plant is in Qingdao and iirc they have a big outlet there. You won't have trouble finding quality guitars to buy in the major cities and you'll find the prices similar.

If you're still thinking about shipping your stuff over after reading the advice in this thread... check out this video of some professional Chinese baggage handling.

u/netscape101 · 1 pointr/capetown

> The Power of Black Music
I looked it up: https://www.amazon.com/Power-Black-Music-Interpreting-History/dp/0195109759 Looks cool.
Thanks.