Guitar Slim: Long Cord, Loud Suit (The Roots of the Blues) - Couverture souple

Godfrey, Simon

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798237359978

Editeur : Simon Godfrey, 2026

Synopsis

GUITAR SLIM
Long Cord, Loud Suit

He rode into the club on another man's shoulders, dressed in a suit the color of a fire truck, his hair dyed to match - and he was still playing guitar.

Eddie "Guitar Slim" Jones didn't just perform the blues. He staged it. A three-hundred-foot guitar cord let him leave the building mid-solo, walk out onto the street still playing, and saunter back in to find the crowd exactly where he'd left it. He turned his amplifier up until it screamed - on purpose, a decade before anyone agreed that was a good idea - and in October 1953, in a cramped New Orleans studio with a young, broke, moonlighting pianist named Ray Charles calling the shots, he cut "The Things That I Used to Do." It sold a million copies. It topped the R&B chart for six weeks. And it quietly rewired what the electric guitar was allowed to sound like.

Jimi Hendrix covered him. Buddy Guy says he's the reason he picked up a guitar at all. Frank Zappa called his sound a "smuttiest" he'd ever heard - and meant it as the highest praise he had. And then, four days after Buddy Holly's plane went down, Guitar Slim died in a New York hotel room at thirty-two, leaving behind no surviving film of a single performance - just a scattering of photographs and the astonished testimony of everyone who ever saw him play.

This book follows him from a Mississippi cotton field to the Apollo Theatre, through the suits, the Cadillacs, the gospel-trained voice, and the guitar tone that got there first - before rock and roll had a name for what it was borrowing. It's a short, loud life, and it deserves a book that doesn't waste a word of it.

For blues fans who already know the name, and for anyone about to hear "The Things That I Used to Do" for the first time.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Simon Godfrey is a lifelong blues enthusiast and avid listener whose deep knowledge of the genre comes from decades spent following the music wherever it led. He now writes to put that knowledge into stories, researching each subject in depth so the history behind the music gets the same care as the music itself.

His work is written for blues fan, and curious newcomers alike, with one aim: to help readers discover and understand the music through deeply researched, engaging stories that connect the artists, songs, recordings, and influences that shaped the blues - so they can uncover forgotten treasures, understand why the music matters, and hear the blues in a whole new way.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Simon Godfrey
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798237359978
• Reliure: Paperback
• Nombre de pages: 106
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible