Blues/R&B/Soul

Gil Scott-Heron

The Last Holiday

In a musical career spanning five decades, from Small Talk at 125th and Lenox to I'm New Here, Gil Scott-Heron (1949-2011) released twenty albums and many seminal singles including 'The Revolution Will No…

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Gil Scott-Heron

The Last Holiday

In a musical career spanning five decades, from Small Talk at 125th and Lenox to I'm New Here, Gil Scott-Heron (1949-2011) released twenty albums and many seminal singles including 'The Revolution Will No…

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Peter Guralnick

Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom

SWEET SOUL MUSIC profiles the legendary artists--among them Sam Cook, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, and Al Green--who merged gospel and rhythm and blues. "The best history of '60s soul …

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John Broven

Rhythm and Blues in New Orleans

At last--a major update of Rhythm and Blues in New Orleans by author and music researcher John Broven has arrived! Originally published in Great Britain in 1974 under the title Walking to New Orleans and …

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B. B. King

Blues All Around Me: The Autobiography of B. B. King

B. B. King has the blues running through his blood.Growing up in the rural poverty of the Mississippi Delta, King first experienced the blues at nine years old, when his mother passed away. The man of the…

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Mark Ribowsky

The Supremes

In a sprawling parable of ambition, sex, and betrayal, "The Supremes" delivers the definitive story of the most successful female vocal group of all time.

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Maurice White

My Life with Earth, Wind & Fire

Earth, Wind & Fire was one of the most popular and significant bands of the past century, celebrated alongside Chicago, the Commodores, Fleetwood Mac, the Eagles, and Sly and the Family Stone. They tr…

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Tony Fletcher

In the Midnight Hour

In In the Midnight Hour, veteran music journalist and biographer Tony Fletcher not only tells the full story of Wilson Pickett's incredible career, and troubled life, but goes beyond the individual anecdo…

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Robert Gordon

Respect Yourself

"A joyous and heartbreaking story that says a lot about America." Richard Hell, Wall Street JournalThe story of Stax Records unfolds like a Greek tragedy. A white brother and sister build a monument to ra…

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Bobby Womack

Bobby Womack

Bobby Womack was born on 4 March 1944, and died on 27 June 2014, aged 70. In a career that spanned two centuries and seven decades, the soul singer, songwriter and guitarist carved a niche for himself tha…

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Robert Gordon

Respect Yourself

"A joyous and heartbreaking story that says a lot about America." Richard Hell, Wall Street JournalThe story of Stax Records unfolds like a Greek tragedy. A white brother and sister build a monument to ra…

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Peter Guralnick

Feel Like Going Home: Portraits in Blues and Rock 'n' Roll

FEEL LIKE GOING HOME celebrates the building blocks of blues and early rock 'n' roll, including Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Jerry Lee Lewis, and the Chess record label. "Brings it back alive better t…

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Rob Bowman

Soulsville U.S.A.: The Story of Stax Records

"Soulsville, U. S.A." provides the first history of the groundbreaking label along with compelling biographies of the promoters, producers, and performers who made and sold the music. More than …

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Alan Greenberg

Love in Vain

Alan Greenberg is a writer, film director, film producer, and photographer. He worked on Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear and Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900 and with Werner Herzog on his classic screenplays Fitzca…

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Alan Lomax

The Land Where Blues Began

Folklorist Lomax offers a rollicking memoir of his journey back into blues country. A "singingly well-written cornbread-and-moonshine odyssey" ("Kirkus Reviews"). of photos.

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Mike Rowe

Chicago Blues

This is the history of that music and the dozens of black artists who congregated on the South and Near West Sides. All of the giants played throughout the city and created a musical style that had imitat…

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Stephen Cleary

I Put a Spell on You

The mesmerizing autobiography of one of the most revered soul, jazz, and blues divas of our time-the late Nina Simone

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Alan Light

What Happened, Miss Simone?

Drawing on glimpses into previously unseen diaries, rare interviews and childhood journals, and with the aid of her daughter, What Happened, Miss Simone? tells the story of the classically trained pianist…

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Leroi Jones

Jones, L: Blues People

"A must for all who would more knowledgeably appreciate and better comprehend America's most popular music." ? Langston Hughes"The path the slave took to 'citizenship' is what I want to loo…

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Jim Dickinson

I'm Just Dead, I'm Not Gone

A passionate insider's account from a major mover and shaker in the American music scene

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