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Blues Before Sunrise 3: Guitar Slingers and Backbeaters

Blues Before Sunrise 3: Guitar Slingers and Backbeaters

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Availability:In StockContributor:Steve Cushing, Wayne Everett Goins (Introduction by)Series:Music in American LifePublish date:2025-05-13Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Illinois PressISBN-13:9780252088711ISBN-10:252088719UPC:9780252088711Book Category:Music, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Genres & Styles, History & Criticism, MusicBook Topic:BluesSize:9.20 x 6.10 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SC3HSBDZ7Y

Steve Cushing's third volume of interviews from Blues Before Sunrise puts fans face-to-face with music legends and industry figures. The volume kicks off with a roundtable featuring drumming all-stars Earl Phillips, S.P. Leary, Odie Payne, Clifton James, and Fred Below discussing their lives and craft. Cushing segues to one-on-one interviews with Howlin' Wolf sideman Phillips; Leary, a fellow Wolf alum and player with Sonny Boy Williamson II; Payne, known for his kick drum technique; longtime Muddy Waters drummer Willie "Big Eyes" Smith; next-generation standard bearer and session mainstay Casey Jones; and King Records house drummer Phillip Paul.

Interviews with guitarists include talks with Honeyboy Edwards, whose friendships with innumerable Chicago blues legends (and Robert Johnson) predated the Great Migration; jazz player turned bluesman Guitar Shorty; and figures like Texas native Roy Gaines, Johnny Heartsman of Oakland, and Memphis-born Floyd Murphy. A final section offers interviews with vocalists, record label founders, and other figures. Music scholar Wayne Everett Goins provides an introduction on blues history, blues style, and the careers of the featured artists.

Interviews: Joel Dorn, Honeyboy Edwards, Slim Gaillard, Roy Gaines, Johnny Heartsman, Franz Jackson, Casey Jones, S.P. Leary, Floyd Murphy, Jimmy "T-99" Nelson, Johnny Parth, Phillip Paul, Odie Payne, Earl Phillips, Art Sheridan, Guitar Shorty, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, and Norvel Taborn

Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Illinois PressISBN-13:9780252088711ISBN-10:252088719UPC:9780252088711Book Category:Music, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Genres & Styles, History & Criticism, MusicBook Topic:BluesSize:9.20 x 6.10 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SC3HSBDZ7Y
Steve Cushing has hosted Blues Before Sunrise for over forty years. He is the author of Blues Before Sunrise: The Radio Interviews, Blues Before Sunrise 2: Interviews from the Chicago Scene, and Pioneers of the Blue Revival.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press

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