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Post by Admin on Aug 11, 2014 7:49:17 GMT -5
This is a "must have" book for anyone serious about blues artists. www.amazon.com/Blues-Regional-Experience-Eric-LeBlanc/dp/031334423X/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1407688856&sr=1-3From Bob Eagle regarding updates to this work: Bob EagleMany thanks for the kind words. The longer work is "in progress" but it's presently unclear if the gospel content will make it. I hope BARE is not out of stock, because we haven't cleared the advance yet! Eric's poor health is preventing him doing much more than making the odd correction to Blues Dates. I don't expect the longer version to be available at least until the end of next year. Meanwhile I'm continually updating it - often using posts appearing on this fantastic forum!
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Post by Wormella on Aug 17, 2014 4:42:19 GMT -5
We did an amazing music themed Holiday around the Deep South last year, Started in New Orleans, drove up Mississippi to Memphis, across to Nashville and then down through the Smokies to Atlanta.
It's the only time I've ever experienced the need to have the right kind of music to fit the landscape we were travelling though (so Brass Band & Jazz in New Orleans, Cajun & Zydaco in Louisiana, Delta Blues and Mississippi Hill Blues for wherever we were in the state, Soul and Rock in Memphis Country around Nashville & Bluegrass through the Smokies).
The UK isn't big enough to have the same kind of need for the 'right' music for the location.
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Post by AlanB on Aug 17, 2014 5:01:47 GMT -5
I still have a letter from Bob (1987) in which he told me that he had a manuscript of about 5,000 words provisionally entitled The Encyclopedia of Blues & Gospel Music which would probably be published in 8 separate volumes of about 700 pages each. He stated he'd been working on this for a decade or more and actively looking for a publisher. As someone once sang "good things come to those who wait.
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