| Series |
John and Robin Dickson series in Texas music
John and Robin Dickson series in Texas music. ^A772110
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| Contents |
East Texas. Osceola Mays ; John T. Samples Sr. ; Mance Lipscomb ; Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins ; Frank Robinson ; Clyde Langford ; Henry Qualls ; K. M. Williams -- Electrifying the blues. Eddie Durham ; Robert Lee Dun ; Charlie Christian ; Aaron "T-Bone" Walker -- Dallas. Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter ; Herbert Cowens ; Alexander H. Moore Sr. ; Big Bo Thomas ; Willie Willis ; Vernon Garrett ; Al "TNT" Braggs ; Z. Z. Hill ; Joe "Little Joe Blue" Valery ; R. L. Griffin ; Ernie Johnson ; Anson Funderburgh ; Mike Morgan ; Memo "The Lone Wolf" Gonzalez ; Robin "Texas Slim" Sullivan ; Bnois King ; Andrew "Junior Boy" Jones ; Gregg Smith ; Tutu Jones ; Freddie King ; Wanda King -- Fort Worth. Robert Ealey ; Sumter Bruton ; Ray Sharpe ; Delbert McClinton -- The saxophone in Texas blues. Henry "Buster" Smith ; Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson ; Jean-Baptiste Illinois Jacquet ; Don Wilkerson ; Henry Hayes ; Dewey Redman ; Grady Gaines ; Mark "Kaz" Kazanoff -- Houston. Milton Larkin ; Beulah "Sippie" Wallace ; Big Walter Price ; Evelyn Johnson ; Riley "B. B." King ; Calvin Owens ; Harrison D. Nelson ("Peppermint" Harris) ; Lester Williams ; Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton ; Johnny Brown ; Goree Carter ; Albert Collins ; Teddy Reynolds ; Roy Gaines ; Clarence Green ; Joe Hughes ; Pete Mayes ; Johnny Copeland ; Sonny Boy Terry ; Gloria Edwards ; Lee Audrey Roberts (Trudy Lynn) ; Shemekia Copeland -- Zydeco. John H. Nobles ; Clarence Gallien ; Anderson Moss ; Cleveland Walters ; Alfonse "Lonnie" Mitchell ; Clifton Chenier ; Ashton Savoy ; Alcido "L. C." Donatto Sr. ; L. C. Donatto Jr. -- Beaumont, Port Arthur & Orange. Clarence Garlow ; Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown ; Long John Hunter ; Tom Hunter ; Johnny Winter ; Barbara Lynn ; Alfonso R. "Little Ray" Ybarra ; Joe Jonas -- The move to California. Bob Geddins ; Lowell Fulson ; Connie Curtis "Pee Wee" Crayton ; Percy Mayfield ; Charles Brown ; Ivory Joe Hunter ; Lloyd Glenn ; Floyd Dixon ; Amos Milburn ; L. C. "Good Rockin'" Robinson ; Clarence Edward "Sonny Rhodes" Smith ; Little Frankie Lee ; Katie Webster -- San Antonio, Corpus Christi, & the Rio Grande Valley. Mariellen Sheppard ; Ildefonso "Sunny" Ozuna ; Adrian Trevino ; Baldemar "Freddy Fender" Huerta -- Austin. Alfred "Snuff" Johnson ; Robert Shaw ; Lavelle White ; Alvada Durst ; W. C. Clark ; Angela Strehli ; The Fabulous Thunderbirds ; Doyle Bramhall II ; Stevie Ray Vaughan. |
| Abstract |
Beginning in East Texas and journeying to the hot, dusty streets of Dakar, Senegal, Govenar traces the earliest roots of the music that became known as blues in the 1890s. Through a critical examination of the work of 19th and 20th century folklorists, historians, and popular writers, Govenar documents the transition from African-styled banjos and fiddles to the rudiments of blues guitar and the emergence of a distinctly Texas sound. As "race music" began to capture the interest of 1920s America, Blind Lemon Jefferson, a Dallas street musician from East Texas, emerged as the biggest selling blues singer in the country. Jefferson's guitar style and musical innovations spread quickly among his peers and were seminal in the growth of modern blues. Jefferson's profound impact. on the development of blues is probably most apparent in the music of Aaron ''T-Bone" Walker, who introduced the electric guitar as a lead instrument in blues in the 1940s, and over the years, influenced virtually every electric blues guitarist that followed him. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 555-556), discography (pages 549-554) , and index. |
| LCCN | 2007039152 |
| ISBN | 9781585446056 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 158544605X (cloth : alk. paper) |
