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Talking guitar : conversations with musicians who shaped twentieth-century American music / Jas Obrecht.

Obrecht, Jas, (compiler,, interviewer.). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection. (Added Author).

Summary:

"Jas Obrecht presents a celebration of the world's most popular instrument as seen through the words, lives, and artistry of some of its most beloved players. Readers will read--and hear--accounts of the first guitarists on record, pioneering bluesmen, gospel greats, jazz innovators, country pickers, rocking rebels, psychedelic shape-shifters, singer-songwriters, and other movers and shakers. In their own words, these guitar players reveal how they found their inspirations, mastered their instruments, crafted classic songs, and created enduring solos. Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781469631646
Physical Description: 307 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm + 1 audio disc (digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.)
Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press in association with the Southern Folklife Collection, the Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library, [2017].
Copyright: ©2017

Content descriptions

General Note:	Includes an audio CD of rare interviews.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Guitarchaeology : setting the stage -- Nick Lucas : America's first guitar hero -- Ry Cooder : prewar country blues -- Barney Kessel : the rise of Charlie Christian -- Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown : "American music, Texas-style" -- Roebuck "Pops" Staples : gospel guitar -- Ricky Nelson : remembering rockabilly -- Carol Kaye : the first lady of rock -- Stevie Ray Vaughan : on Jimi Hendrix -- James Gurley : "the Yuri Gagarin of psychedelic guitar" -- Jerry Garcia : "it's the next note, not the last one" -- Johnny Winter : sliding the blues -- Gregg Allman : "my brother Duane" -- Carlos Santana : "put wings on people's hearts" -- Neil Young : the power of one note -- Eddie Van Halen : "my first interview" -- Tom Petty : songwriting and the art of rhythm guitar -- Eric Johnson : the journey inward -- Joe Satriani : the resurgence of instrumental rock -- Ben Harper : "the strongest spirit in all creation."