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New Orleans
This book is a highly personal portrait of a city and its music in the aftermath of the devastation caused by hurricane Katrina. Among the musicians and groups at the heart of the New Orleans jazz scene who make their appearance in this book are: The Rebirth Brass Band, Hot 8, The Soul Rebels, Th...
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The Day is So Long and the Wages so Small
In the summer of 1958 Samuel Charters and Ann Danberg travelled to Andros, an ‘island on the wrong side of the wind’ in the Bahamas. They were drawn to this remote location by a song, so rich and startling in its resonance that they followed it to its source.
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Walking a Blues Road
Samuel Charters belongs to a small group of writers about music whose work has transformed their -subject–without his discoveries, insights and interventions, the history of blues over the past 50 years would have been very different. This book is a collection of his writings from 1954 to 2004.