New Orleans Acoustic Blues Guitar:: The Babe Stovall Era 1964-1974 (Volume 1) [Paperback] Review

This is a complex and dense book, and way too short to satisfy most people's taste. What Collins says in one or two sentences aptly sums up the music politics of the city back in those days. This is the evidence and perspective of just one performer---but the plot of ground he has found for new orleans folk music in the city's jazz history is going to yield huge dividends for those writers coming afterwards. The book is obviously a text book written to accompany some sort of visual instruction. And thus, maybe hard to follow. The 8 song examples are really not enough, and Snooks Eaglin leads do not get much attention.Stovall and Lonnie Johnson material can be found elsewhere, as well. The book at times seems sandwiched in between discocography and references. Collins is aware that he cannot take the reader everywhere. But I agree this is a good place to start.

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The folk era of the mid to late 1960s in New Orleans has received little attention from historians and educators compared to the folk scenes of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and San Francisco.The book focuses on styles of Babe Stovall, Snooks Eaglin, and Lonnie Johnson and is the companion book for a university course on acoustic blues...

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