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Alan Harper - Waiting for Buddy Guy: Chicago Blues at the Crossroads - 9780252081576 - V9780252081576
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Waiting for Buddy Guy: Chicago Blues at the Crossroads

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Description for Waiting for Buddy Guy: Chicago Blues at the Crossroads Paperback. Series: Music in American Life. Num Pages: 232 pages, 45 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: AVGK; BK; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 234 x 19. Weight in Grams: 380.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, British blues fan Alan Harper became a transatlantic pilgrim to Chicago. I've come here to listen to the blues, he told an American customs agent at the airport, and listen he did, to the music in its many styles, and to the men and women who lived it in the city's changing blues scene. Harper's eloquent memoir conjures the smoky redoubts of men like harmonica virtuoso Big Walter Horton and pianist Sunnyland Slim. Venturing from stageside to kitchen tables to the shotgun seat of a 1973 Eldorado, Harper listens ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Music in American Life
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252081576
SKU
V9780252081576
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-11

About Alan Harper
Alan Harper is a writer, editor, and publisher living in the United Kingdom.

Reviews for Waiting for Buddy Guy: Chicago Blues at the Crossroads
Harper's memoir is beautifully wrought, and populated with an array of vivid and memorable characters... Flecked with insight, wit and warmth, it proves to be an evocative portrait of a bygone era.
MOJO Harper shares his stories of searching for the blues in Chicago in his crisply told, energetic, and vibrant memoir.
No Depression ... Read more

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