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Blues from the Bayou: The Rhythms of Baton Rouge de Julian Piper

Blues from the Bayou: The Rhythms of Baton Rouge

Autor Julian Piper
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 mar 2017
Experience a cool splash of music history from the Bayou State!This intensely personal and entertaining account is a snapshot of Blues from an outsider welcomed into the inner circles of Southern Blues icons. Englishman Julian C. Piper spent a year abroad at Louisiana State University and played blues primarily at the Blues Box in Baton Rouge. There he met many of the musicians with whom he conducted interviews between 1987 and 1988. Those interviews form the basis of this book. Through his close friendship with Blues Box owner Tabby Thomas and his son Chris, Piper collected stories of blues luminaries including Silas Hogan, Robert Pete Williams, Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter, Lonesome Sundown, Chris Thomas King, Lightening Slim, and many more.
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ISBN-13: 9781455623099
ISBN-10: 1455623091
Pagini: 176
Ilustrații: 47 photos
Dimensiuni: 145 x 215 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: PELICAN PUBLISHING CO.
Colecția Pelican Publishing Co. (US)

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"Julian Piper documents the integral but underappreciated center of blues music--Baton Rouge, Louisiana--with style and grit and no illusions or highfalutin' worship. He includes details of these unique characters that show why they and their music continue to live on."
-David Kunian, award-winning documentarian and music curator for the Louisiana State Museum

When forty-year-old Englishman Julian C. Piper spent a year abroad at Louisiana State University studying music and playing the blues in Baton Rouge, he had no idea how transformative the experience would be. For years he had played guitar with American blues artists across England and Europe, sharing the music firsthand, enthralled by their stories and almost religious devotion to the blues. His midlife sojourn to America brought him in contact with the music and people he had experienced only through records and well-thumbed books: a surreal experience that he documents through personal recollections in one engrossing chapter after another.

Through his close friendship with Blues Box owner Tabby Thomas and his son Chris, Piper worked with blues luminaries including Silas Hogan and Guitar Kelly. He heard stories of many icons, such as Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter and Lightnin' Slim, and even interviewed the elusive Lonesome Sundown. After returning home, he turned those intensely personal and entertaining conversations with the men he met into a series on BBC national radio called Blues on the Bayou--and ultimately into this fascinating look at Louisiana-grown blues.

led Blues on the Bayou--and ultimately into this fascinating look at Louisiana-grown blues.