The Blues Dream of Billy Boy Arnold
Download or Read eBook The Blues Dream of Billy Boy Arnold PDF written by Billy Boy Arnold and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-11-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Author | : Billy Boy Arnold |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2021-11-19 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780226809205 |
ISBN-13 | : 022680920X |
Rating | : 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Blues Dream of Billy Boy Arnold by : Billy Boy Arnold
Book excerpt: "Billy Boy Arnold, born in 1935, is one of the few native Chicagoans who both cultivated a career in the blues and stayed in Chicago. His perspective on Chicago's music, people, and places is rare and valuable. Arnold has worked with generations of musicians-from Tampa Red and Howlin' Wolf and to Muddy Waters and Paul Butterfield-on countless recordings, witnessing the decline of country blues, the dawn of electric blues, the onset of blues-inspired rock, and more. Here, with writer Kim Field, he gets it all down on paper-including the story of how he named Bo Diddley Bo Diddley"--