Early blues : the first stars of blues guitar / Jas Obrecht.
Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]Description: xi, 259 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780816698042 (hc : alk. paper)
- 9780816698059 (pb : alk. paper)
- Blues (Music) -- History and criticism -- 1921-1930
- Blues musicians -- United States
- Guitarists -- United States
- Weaver, Sylvester
- Jackson, Papa Charlie, 1887-1938
- Jefferson, Blind Lemon, 1897-1929
- McTell, Blind Willie
- Johnson, Blind Willie
- Johnson, Lonnie
- Hurt, Mississippi John, 1892-1966
- Tampa Red, 1904-1981
- 787.87/1643092273 23
- ML3521 .O27 2015
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sylvester Weaver : the first blues guitarist on record -- Papa Charlie Jackson : six-string stylist, flat-picking pioneer -- Blind Lemon Jefferson : popular from coast to coast -- Blind Blake : king of ragtime blues guitar -- Blind Willie McTell : Atlanta's twelve-string king -- Blind Willie Johnson : sublime gospel blues -- Lonnie Johnson : the era's most influential blues guitarist -- Mississippi John Hurt : songster and bluesman -- Tampa Red : "the guitar wizard".