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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Sunnyland Slim: From the Delta to Chicago

    The Roots of the Blues, #5

    by Simon Godfrey ...
    Series Book 5 - The Roots of the Blues
    "The man who brought Muddy Waters to the session that started it all — and then kept showing up for the next seventy years."In August 1947, a working pianist brought a young guitarist he believed in to a Chicago recording session. That guitarist was Muddy Waters. The label became Chess Records. And the man who made the introduction, Sunnyland Slim, spent the next seven decades doing the same thing ... 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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  • Professor Longhair: Fess

    The Roots of the Blues, #11

    by Simon Godfrey ...
    Series Book 11 - The Roots of the Blues
    FESS: The Life and Music of Professor LonghairEvery Mardi Gras, New Orleans plays a song almost nobody remembers writing. "Go to the Mardi Gras" comes out of radios and brass bands and bar bands across the city like it's always existed — because for most of the people singing along, it has. The man who wrote it spent a decade of his life sweeping the floor of a record shop that still had his own ... Read more

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  • Albert King: The Velvet Bulldozer

    The Roots of the Blues, #8

    by Simon Godfrey ...
    Series Book 8 - The Roots of the Blues
    Albert King held his guitar wrong.Left-handed, he played a right-handed Flying V flipped upside down — never restrung, strings running backward, bends pulled in a direction no method book ever taught. It wasn't a style choice. It was what a poor kid in Depression-era Arkansas did when there was no money for the "correct" instrument and no one around to say otherwise.That accident became one of the ... Read more

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  • Mamie Smith: Crazy Blues

    The Roots of the Blues, #6

    by Simon Godfrey ...
    Series Book 6 - The Roots of the Blues
    CRAZY BLUESMamie Smith and the Three Minutes That Changed American MusicOn August 10, 1920, a vaudeville singer named Mamie Smith stepped in front of a recording horn in a cramped New York studio and sang a song called "Crazy Blues." She was not the artist any label had been looking for. She was, by one account, a last-minute stand-in for a white singer who never showed. What happened next ... Read more

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  • Big Joe Williams: The Roving King of the Nine-String Guitar

    The Roots of the Blues, #3

    by Simon Godfrey ...
    Series Book 3 - The Roots of the Blues
    He built his first guitar with one string and whatever the swamp offered. He never really stopped.Born in 1903 on the edge of Mississippi's Noxubee Swamp, Joseph Lee Williams left home as a teenager and spent the next six decades proving that a blues musician's real instrument was motion itself — riding rails, working levee camps, touring with travelling minstrel shows, and turning up wherever a ... 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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