The Blues They Found - Couverture souple

Godfrey, Simon

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798237749779

Editeur : Simon Godfrey, 2026

Synopsis

The Forgotten Story of the Blues Boom in Britain

In October 1958 a Chicago guitarist walked onto a Leeds stage with a Fender Telecaster turned up louder than anything the room had ever heard. Some walked out. The papers called it "screaming guitar and howling piano." A handful of young Britons stayed, listened, and began a quiet, stubborn search that would reshape popular music.

This is not the familiar tale of a few gifted teenagers inventing the blues overnight. It is the story of how a country that had largely looked away from American electric blues slowly taught itself the music - through scratched 78s in attics, fading Radio Luxembourg signals, specialist shop counters, cramped club basements, and the patient evangelism of a few determined figures whose names rarely appear on the charts.

From Alexis Korner and Cyril Davies's three-person club above a Soho pub, through John Mayall's Manchester apprenticeship and the damp steps of the Ealing Club, to the Rolling Stones, Yardbirds, Cream and Fleetwood Mac, Simon Godfrey reconstructs the chain of discovery link by link. He shows how records became maps, clubs became classrooms, and admiration sometimes tipped into appropriation - while also recovering the overlooked custodians, the forgotten bands, and the real gains and losses for the American artists whose music made it all possible.

Intimate, rigorously researched and written with a storyteller's eye for the telling detail, The Blues They Found restores the human scale to one of the twentieth century's great cultural transfers. It is the story of what happens when people decide, one listener at a time, to go looking for a music their own country never taught them.

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: 9798237749779
• Reliure: Tapa blanda
• Nombre de pages: 176
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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