LIBROS DEL AUTOR: simon godfrey

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  • The Strangers’ Tide
    Simon Godfrey
    On the misted shores where three peoples have kept their fires apart, and in balance, for longer than any story remembers, a child presses an ear to a driftwood log and whispers that something is coming. By dawn the smoke on the wind has a taste no one knows. Below Cedar Point a camp has risen in straight lines, full of men who move as one body and carry sticks that speak.The S...
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  • Guitar Slim
    Simon Godfrey
    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...
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  • James Cotton
    Simon Godfrey
    The voice is gone, but the wind is still there.Born on a Mississippi plantation and raised in the raw, demanding world of Delta blues, James Cotton learned the harmonica from Sonny Boy Williamson II before he was old enough to enter a juke joint. As a teenager, he played alongside Howlin’ Wolf. In Chicago, he became Muddy Waters’ harmonica player and bandleader, standing at the...
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  • The Blues They Found
    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....
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  • Peetie Wheatstraw
    Simon Godfrey
    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 hims...
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  • Scrapper Blackwell
    Simon Godfrey
    SCRAPPER BLACKWELL: BORROWED BLUESHe helped shape the sound of the blues. Then the world forgot his name.Before Robert Johnson recorded 'Sweet Home Chicago,' Scrapper Blackwell was already playing the guitar lines that would help shape its musical ancestry.A brilliant, unconventional guitarist from Indianapolis, Blackwell became half of one of the greatest partnerships in early...
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    16,87 €

  • Otis Rush
    Simon Godfrey
    Play 'Double Trouble' for someone who’s never heard the name Otis Rush, and watch their face change. That minor-key ache. That guitar answering the voice like a second singer picking a fight. Somewhere around the second chorus, they’ll ask who this is - and you’ll have to explain that you’re probably the first person who ever told them.Eric Clapton names him as one of his three...
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    16,83 €

  • Little Milton
    Simon Godfrey
    'What’s the point in listening to us doing it when you can listen to Slim Harpo doing it?' Mick Jagger asked that about a different Louisiana bluesman. He could just as easily have said it about Little Milton.James Milton Campbell Jr. started with a piece of wire nailed to the side of a Mississippi farmhouse and cotton-field wages saved up for a mail-order guitar. He ended up w...
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  • Albert Collins
    Simon Godfrey
    For more than thirty years, Albert Collins built a fierce reputation in clubs and juke joints long before the wider world took notice.Known as the Master of the Telecaster, Collins created one of the most distinctive sounds in blues: sharp, percussive and instantly recognisable. His unusual open tuning, bare-fingered attack, sliding capo and piercing electric tone produced musi...
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    16,58 €

  • Professor Longhair
    Simon Godfrey
    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...
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  • Robert Cray
    Simon Godfrey
    Robert Cray: Strong Persuader is the story of a musician who helped bring the blues back into the mainstream without compromising its soul.Raised in a military family and shaped by music that travelled with him from one posting to the next, Robert Cray found his calling through rhythm and blues, gospel, soul, and the electric blues of Albert Collins. From Tacoma bar bands and t...
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    16,61 €

  • Freddie King
    Simon Godfrey
    Freddie King: The Texas CannonballHe was the guitarist other guitarists studied in secret. Eric Clapton learned 'Hide Away' note by note from a hard-to-find record. Stevie Ray Vaughan absorbed his phrasing until it became the bedrock of Texas blues. Peter Green, Mick Taylor, Jeff Beck, and a generation of British players built their sound on his licks. Yet for most of his caree...
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  • Albert King
    Simon Godfrey
    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 accide...
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    22,66 €

  • Magic Sam
    Simon Godfrey
    MAGIC SAM: The West Side Sound and the Blues That Got AwayOn the morning of December 1, 1969, Sam Maghett collapsed in his own home, three weeks after his thirty-second birthday - at the exact moment his career was finally catching up to his talent. A Stax contract was being negotiated. A European tour was on the calendar. Weeks earlier, he’d torn apart the Ann Arbor Blues Fest...
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    16,36 €

  • Mamie Smith
    Simon Godfrey
    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 h...
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  • Sunnyland Slim
    Simon Godfrey
    '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 ...
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    22,62 €

  • Jimmy Reed
    Simon Godfrey
    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...
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    22,55 €

  • Big Joe Williams
    Simon Godfrey
    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 tur...
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    22,52 €

  • Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup
    Simon Godfrey
    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 chos...
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    22,50 €

  • Slim Harpo
    Simon Godfrey
    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 Harp...
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  • British Army Communications in the Second World War
    Simon Godfrey
    Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence form the backbone of the Army’s operating system. But while much attention has been given in the literature to the other three elements, Communications in the British Army during World War II have been widely ignored. This book rectifies the omission. It shows that failures in front line communications contributed to several of ...
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    66,48 €

  • Human Identity and Fundamental Issues of Life
    Simon S. Godfrey / Simon SGodfrey
    The concept of human identity or who we really are has perplexed thinkers in all ages. Currently psychologists have shunned discussing this topic since it is an area that is incapable of being objectified or accurately defined. Yet the lack of self-knowledge is the problem of all problems. Due to such a lack we, for the most part, lead lives fraught with illusions, superficiali...
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    16,60 €