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Bill Wyman's Blues Odyssey: A Journey to Music's Heart and Soul
 
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Bill Wyman's Blues Odyssey: A Journey to Music's Heart and Soul (Hardcover)
by Bill Wyman (Author)
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This book showcases 40 legendary Blues players from Muddy Waters to John Lee Hooker with fascinating stories and inside information. It includes the geographical, social and political history around the time of the blues, from life on the cotton plantations to vibrant city night-life and features previously unpublished photographs of famous blues locations and key players from Bill's personal archive. In this evocative and intensely personal history of the Blues, Bill Wyman pays tribute to the musicians who inspired him and whose music he took around the world as a member of the Rolling Stones.The starting point of Bill's Odyssey is the journey of African slaves to the plantations of America's Deep South. We follow their descendants as they walk travel the highways and ride the railroads out of the Delta and the troubled South via Memphis to the northern cites of Chicago and St. Louis. But this is no superficial history: a society is revealed where poverty and injustice as well as love and faith found their expression in a musical style that gave birth to rock 'n' roll.Location shots of smokey juke joints railroad stations and endless highways combine with stunning maps to bring the Blues alive.

Feature spreads with previously unpublished photographs from Bill Wyman's personal showcase 38 Blues legends from Robert Johnson to John Lee Hooker telling the story of their fascinating and often troubled lives. Bill Wyman is a legend in his own right. He has known and played with many of the Blue legends and his personal knowledge and unprecedented access give this book an authenticity that is almost impossible to match.


 
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28 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars terrific, 22 Nov 2001
This must be one of the best, if not "the best" book about Blues music and Blues musicians I've come across. Bill Wyman manages to discuss the cultural influences that created the blues intelligently without ever getting intelectual. He discusses the lives and talents of the musicians with admiration but without overly glorifying them. Bill comes across, as you'd expect, as someone who both loves the music and the musicians who create it. At no point though does he preach or pontificate over academic points of interest only to anoraks. The layout and design of the book is excellent, with superb graphics and pictures. Its the kind of book you can read straight through or dip into again and again as a reference work or just for fun. I thought I knew a lot about Blues culture, history and music, but I've learnt so much more from this book. I've also discovered some excellent blues music I was previously unaware of. Buy it!
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Book Of Blues, 27 May 2002
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I am a massive blues fan, and this really huge and most excellent book by the Rolling Stone's Bill Wyman is a must.

It's definately an easy read, wonderfully put together, including great photos. And every master of blues that you care to mention is here; the greats and legends such as Robert Johnson, BB King, Leadbelly and John Lee Hooker, plus Elvis Presley's Sun recordings.

If you are a fan of blues, or even curious, this book will be firm in your hands for a long time, not only as a book of blues, but a guide to buying your next CDs.

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars packed with information and superb pictures, 15 Jul 2003
Overall, a great book that educates the reader in an entertaining, clear and down-to-earth manner. I especially appreciated the background information (for example, on slavery, segregation and the cotton trade) which puts the blues into its social and spiritual context. This book is clearly a labour of love, especially for Bill Wyman, but that love unfortunately extends to an excessive number of Bill Wyman photographs. Bear in mind however that as a coffee table book, this book lacks some of the depth and flow of a good blues read, evident in books such as Robert Palmer's "Deep Blues" or Alan Lomax's "The land where the blues began".
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