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PublisherChicago Review Press, Incorporated
ISBN-101613733283
ISBN-139781613733288
eBay Product ID (ePID)17038428373
Product Key Features
Book TitleMichael Bloomfield : the Rise and Fall of an American Guitar Hero
Number of Pages224 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2016
TopicComposers & Musicians, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Individual Composer & Musician
IllustratorYes
GenreMusic, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorEd Ward
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight20 oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2016-019216
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"Michael Bloomfield was brilliant, troubled, flawed, charming, and dauntingly influential, and Ed Ward adeptly balances his strengths and weaknesses, creating a picture of a man who was all too in tune with a complicated time." --Elijah Wald, author of Dylan Goes Electric! and Escaping the Delta, "Ed Ward tells Bloomfield's story in compelling fashion, often pointing to the great tracks people may not know about." --Counter Punch, "With all due respect to Eric Clapton, B.B. King, Albert King, Buddy Guy, Johnny Winter, and so many others who are in the pantheon of blues greats, in this white Jew's opinion, Michael Bloomfield was simply the best blues guitarist I've ever heard." --Rob Reiner, filmmaker and actor, "Michael Bloomfield was such a unique and mercurial character is was like handling hot coals in your mind. You should get to know him because the people that knew him, loved him. His guitar playing was beautiful. His heart and soul were as big as it gets. This remembrance brings to life the amazing story of a young Jewish kid from Chicago's North Side whose unique style of improvisational guitar led the world into the modern age of blues and rock. Hey, folks, he was historic." --Nick Gravenites, singer and songwriter, "A riveting tale of a restless spirit." -- Rolling Stone "This amazing book by Ed Ward is an updated version of his original 1983 tome, but it feels brand new. The breathtaking ride to the top and the crushing fall to the bottom of the musician's life is captured in full emotional detail." --The Morton Report, "A riveting tale of a restless spirit." -- Rolling Stone "This amazing book by Ed Ward is an updated version of his original 1983 tome, but it feels brand new. The breathtaking ride to the top and the crushing fall to the bottom of the musician's life is captured in full emotional detail." --The Morton Report "I thought I knew everything there was to know about Michael Bloomfield. I was wrong. I devoured this book and, in so doing, learned so much about the man I admired as a teenager." --Classicalite, "As a biographer, Ward successfully conveys the complex story of a troubled Jew, who could shake a string like no one else." --Tablet Magazine, "A riveting tale of a restless spirit." -- Rolling Stone "This amazing book by Ed Ward is an updated version of his original 1983 tome, but it feels brand new. The breathtaking ride to the top and the crushing fall to the bottom of the musician's life is captured in full emotional detail." --The Morton Report "I thought I knew everything there was to know about Michael Bloomfield. I was wrong. I devoured this book and, in so doing, learned so much about the man I admired as a teenager." --Classicalite "...a necessary tribute to the influential blues- rock musician." -- LivingBlues, "Ed Ward tells Bloomfield's story in compelling fashion, often pointing to the great tracks people may not know about." --Counter Punch, "[A] terrific book, which charts the course of Bloomfield's life and career with style, detail and insight." -- Chicago Tribune, "In this chronicle of a life found and lost, Ed Ward writes with deep empathy, and also with a hard-boiled patience that burns off all sentiment. It is the perfect tone for a story Ward never tries to make bigger than it is, so that finally it makes terrible and final sense." --Greil Marcus, author of The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs and Mystery Train, "A brilliant biography of the ethereal Chicago blues guitar giant who shook the walls down in the '60s and '70s with his soaring art. There is a mother lode of fresh rock 'n' roll history in these pages. The discography alone is worth the price of admission. Highly recommended!" --Douglas Brinkley, author of Rightful Heritage and The Wilderness Warrior, "A brilliant biography of the ethereal Chicago blues guitar giant who shook the walls down in the '60s and '70s with his soaring art. There is a mother lode of fresh rock 'n' roll history in these pages. The discography alone is worth the price of admission. Highly recommended!" --Douglas Brinkley, author of Rightful Heritage and The Wilderness Warrior
Dewey Decimal787.871643092
SynopsisNominated for the 2017 ARSC Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research This is the definitive biography of the legendary guitarist whom eminent figures like Muddy Waters and B. B. King held in high esteem, and who created the prototype for Clapton, Hendrix, Page, and everyone who followed. Bloomfield was one of the first popular music superstars of the 1960s to earn his reputation almost entirely on his instrumental prowess. He was a member of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, which inspired a generation of white blues players; he played with Bob Dylan in the mid-1960s, when his guitar was a central component of Dylan's new rock sound on "Like a Rolling Stone" and at his earthshaking 1965 Newport Folk Festival performance. He then founded the Electric Flag, recorded Super Session with Al Kooper, backed Janis Joplin, and released at least twenty other albums, despite debilitating substance abuse. He died of a mysterious drug overdose in 1981. A very limited edition of a book of this title was first published in 1983, but it has here been so thoroughly revised and expanded that it is essentially a brand-new publication. Based on extensive interviews with Bloomfield himself and with those who knew him best, and including an extensive discography and Bloomfield's memorable 1968 Rolling Stone interview, Michael Bloomfield is an intimate portrait of one of the pioneers of rock guitar.
LC Classification NumberML419.B58W4 2016
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- 11. Mär. 2020
Great
Good Book that I already have on my book shelf. My buddy wanted a copy so I got this one for himBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Neu
- 21. Jan. 2019
good read
Detailed and interesting biography.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Neu
