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Post by AlanB on Nov 30, 2012 1:44:08 GMT -5
Jim has approved of my book collection built up over 45 years and persuaded me to add it here. If it's thought that I'm being egotistical just holler and I'll remove it. For easy access in a separate topic I will post a link to Michael Hawkeye Herman's blues bibliography as made available on his website. Attachments:
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Post by AlanB on Nov 30, 2012 1:48:36 GMT -5
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Post by AlanB on Nov 30, 2012 8:27:45 GMT -5
Thanks Alan. It's a great list for us book lovers. Now what would make this even better would be a short summary of the book/publication. Sometimes if we're looking for primary research, a synopsis of the publication makes it easier to find and use. I couldn't agree more but there just doesn't seem to be enough hours in a day - even in retirement. Over the decades I've reviewed a goodly number on that list. Maybe I'll look one out and post it. What say you?
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Post by AlanB on Nov 30, 2012 10:39:08 GMT -5
This book should be required reading by all blues fans, the reasons for which I hope the attached make clear. Attachments:
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Post by AlanB on Nov 30, 2012 11:32:06 GMT -5
Great review. Thanks Alan. Thanks for the kind words. I'll maybe find one slightly shorter from the same period and post that.
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Post by AlanB on Nov 30, 2012 12:54:56 GMT -5
New York, Detroit and Chicago as seen through the eyes and cameras of two French blues fans in September 1959. Attachments:
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Post by AlanB on Dec 1, 2012 2:36:31 GMT -5
Hope it was informative. The book is now long out of print. Jacques Demetre is still active and writing about the blues for the French magazine Soul Bag. Marcel died in 1966. If you scroll down to the end of the link below you'll see the colour slides Jacques took in 1959. (sadly very rarely credited when used, but that's the internet for you) www.wirz.de/music/jamelmfrm.htm
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Post by AlanB on Dec 8, 2012 9:18:33 GMT -5
I've been asked to look up a reference in this biography and found tucked inside a very useful/interesting review. IMHO this book is an object lesson in biography writing. Has anybody read Porterfield's superb Jimmie Rodgers bio? Attachments:
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Post by traveler on Dec 12, 2012 21:21:16 GMT -5
Wow, an amazing list.
Thanks for posting it.
You own all those?
Don
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Post by AlanB on Dec 13, 2012 1:36:08 GMT -5
Wow, an amazing list. You own all those? Don I'm afraid so but it does represent 45 years of buying. The majority were accumulated (and read) prior to 1980 when one could pick up for a song ancient tomes in London's Charing Cross Road many used book stores.
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Post by traveler on Dec 13, 2012 6:16:10 GMT -5
So do you play as well, or are you strictly a scholar?
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Post by AlanB on Dec 13, 2012 7:30:08 GMT -5
So do you play as well, or are you strictly a scholar? Don't know one end of a musical instrument from another. ;D Scholar, me? No I leave that to the like of Paul Oliver or Sam Charters, though I have knocked out the occasional blues feature, LP/CD booklet in my time. See www.allmusic.com/artist/alan-balfour-mn0001789441I had nothing to do with the "biography" which was lifted by AMG from an ancient magazine and the list of my "credits" is somewhat lacking. Trouble being that since 1999 I've been trying to get them to update this but to no avail.
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Post by traveler on Dec 13, 2012 11:25:54 GMT -5
Hi Alan, thanks for the reply.
I had looked at your bio online before I made my last post, saw that it made no mention of your being a musician, so that's why I asked the question.
I think I tend to agree with Jim, I think you're being way too modest about your scholarly pursuits.
If I could ask you one more, how is it that someone who loves music as much as I'm confident you do never learned to play?
Don
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Post by steve on Dec 18, 2012 16:22:12 GMT -5
Wow what a collection. I thought I had a lot of books!
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Post by AlanB on Jan 30, 2013 10:34:31 GMT -5
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