Paperback
424 pages
Backbeat UK
ISBN: 0879304243
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Listing more than 500 blues artists alphabetically, each with a brief biographical profile, and reviewing and rating their best recordings--more than 3,000 in all--this comprehensive guide identifies thousands of top-notch CDs, albums, and tapes in all styles of the blues. Fifteen historical essays plus supplemental 'music maps' chart the roots and evolution of the blues.Reviews and rates the best recordings of more than 560 blues artists and groups, provides biographies of the artists, and charts the evolution of the blues.