Texas Blues: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound (Gary Hartman Texas Music Series Sponsored by the Center for Texas Music History Texas State University)
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Texas Blues allows artists to speak in their own words revealing the dynamics of blues from its beginnings in cotton fields and shotgun shacks to its migration across boundaries of age and race to seize the musical imagination of the entire world. Fully illustrated with 495 dramatic high-quality color and black-and-white photographsmany never before publishedTexas Blues provides comprehensive and authoritative documentation of a musical tradition that has changed contemporary music. Award-winning documentary filmmaker and author Alan Govenar here builds on his previous groundbreaking work documenting these musicians and their style with the stories of 110 of the most influential artists and their times. From Blind Lemon Jefferson and Aaron T-Bone Walker of Dallas to Delbert McClinton in Fort Worth Sam Lightnin Hopkins in East Texas Baldemar (Freddie Fender) Huerta in South Texas and Stevie Ray Vaughan in Austin Texas Blues shows the who what where and how of blues in the Lone Star State.
