Rev Gary Davis Blues Guitar

• Author : Stefan Grossman
• Publisher : Oak Publications
• Release : 01 June 1974

A unique biography and instruction book featuring the influential blues and roots talents of Rev. Gary Davis, in standard music notation and tablature with discography and photographs. Learn the secrets to the great blues player's techniques, and the distinctive harmonies that characterise the sound of this magical bygone era. Includes Two Step Candyman and Death Don't Have No Mercy.

• Author : Donald Garwood
• Publisher : Oak Publications
• Release : 01 June 1968

From the preface: In order to study American folk guitar styles in depth, one is forced to turn to the country blues because nowhere else do recorded sources of instrumental folk guitar abound so profusely. It is in the blues that Negro musicians have explored and developed the finger style instrumental approach. Some of the exceptional blues masterpieces are assembled in this book along with the instruction necessary to play them.

• Author : Stefan Grossman
• Publisher : Alfred Music Publishing
• Release : 31 May 1996

Now available with online audio, this classic book is the perfect introduction to fingerstyle solo guitar. It features 21 popular country-blues and ragtime songs set by Stefan Grossman, Happy Traum, Dave Van Ronk and John Fahey in entry-level fingerpicking arrangements. Includes: Delia * Death Comes Creepin' * John Henry * St. James Infirmary * Silent Night * Just a Closer Walk with Thee and more. In standard notation and tablature.

• Author : Nick Tosches
• Publisher : Hachette UK
• Release : 01 August 2009

A forgotten singer from the early days of jazz is at the center of this riveting book -- a narrative that is part mystery, part biography, part meditation on the meaning and power of music.

• Author : Barry Stimmel
• Publisher : Psychology Press
• Release : 01 February 1984

This provocative volume addresses the problem of alcohol and drug abuse among the affluent. Experts explore the prevalence and patterns of abuse among the “privileged.” Important and revealing data is examined concerning the appropriateness of existing forms of treatment and the effectiveness of the therapeutic process. Topics of particular interest and timeliness include drug use among affluent adolescents, cocaine use and abuse, and the increasing incidence of substance abuse among physicians.

• Author : Edward Barnes
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 February 1994

A compelling portrait of three communities penetrated by drugs and isolation: East New York, North Philadelphia, and the Red Hook housing projects in Brooklyn, New York. With a chilling and informative afterword by Dr. Stephen W. Nicholas, who works as a pediatric AIDS physician in Harlem, Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue reveals how first steps toward solutions to overcome the drug trade have actually contributed to public denial and further isolation of the trapped communities. Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue is a

• Author : Eric Kriss
• Publisher : Wise Publications
• Release : 07 January 2011

Eric Kriss. Clear step-by-step format, simple enough for the beginner, teaches major styles and essential techniques. Chord structure, bass lines, slides and syncopation etc. are all explained.

• Author : Joe A. Crawford
• Publisher : iUniverse
• Release : 01 July 2003

A book of verse that is both insightful and thought provoking, with a full range of poetry that goes from the depths of the human heart to the upper reaches of all existence.

• Author : Edward Komara,Peter Lee
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 01 July 2004

The Blues Encyclopedia is the first full-length authoritative Encyclopedia on the Blues as a musical form. While other books have collected biographies of blues performers, none have taken a scholarly approach. A to Z in format, this Encyclopedia covers not only the performers, but also musical styles, regions, record labels and cultural aspects of the blues, including race and gender issues. Special attention is paid to discographies and bibliographies.

• Author : Rupert Till
• Publisher : A&C Black
• Release : 30 September 2010

At a time when fundamentalism is on the rise, traditional religions are in decline and postmodernity has challenged any system that claims to be all-defining, young people have left their traditional places of worship and set up their own, in clubs, at festivals and within music culture. Pop Cults investigates the ways in which popular music and its surrounding culture have become a primary site for the location of meaning, belief and identity. It provides an introduction to the history

• Author : Ian Zack
• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• Release : 10 April 2015

Who was the greatest of all American guitarists? You probably didn’t name Gary Davis, but many of his musical contemporaries considered him without peer. Bob Dylan called Davis “one of the wizards of modern music.” Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead—who took lessons with Davis—claimed his musical ability “transcended any common notion of a bluesman.” And the folklorist Alan Lomax called him “one of the really great geniuses of American instrumental music.” But you won’t find

• Author : Enno Freye
• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• Release : 21 September 2009

Finally - a book that covers all aspects of the illicit use of cocaine, amphetamines, ecstasy and/or designer drugs such as GHB, written by two experts in their field. The use of these drugs remains a continuous threat in health and medical care delivery, and this book will be an essential asset to the physician who may have to face the evaluation of patients whose use of these drugs compromises an effective treatment plan for other health issues. The

• Author : Paul Gootenberg
• Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
• Release : 01 February 2023

Illuminating a hidden and fascinating chapter in the history of globalization, Paul Gootenberg chronicles the rise of one of the most spectacular and now illegal Latin American exports: cocaine. Gootenberg traces cocaine's history from its origins as a

• Author : Robert Earl Hardy
• Publisher : University of North Texas Press
• Release : 01 February 2023

A biography of Texas songwriter Townes Van Zandt, discussing his troubled childhood, the development of his career as a wandering folk singer, and his relationships with women, and including analyses of his songs.

• Author : John M. Alexander
• Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
• Release : 10 April 2018

There have been many books written about Johnny Cash, but The Man in Song is the first to examine Cash’s incredible life through the lens of the songs he wrote and recorded. Music journalist and historian John Alexander has drawn on decades of studying Cash’s music and life, from his difficult depression-era Arkansas childhood through his death in 2003, to tell a life story through songs familiar and obscure. In discovering why Cash wrote a given song or chose