{"product_id":"the-blues-dream-of-billy-boy-arnold-chicago-visions-and-revisions-9780226809205","title":"The Blues Dream of Billy Boy Arnold (Chicago Visions and Revisions)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe frank  funny  and unforgettable autobiography of a living legend of Chicago blues.  Simply put  Billy Boy Arnold is one of the last men standing from the Chicago blues scenes raucous heyday. Whats more  unlike most artists in this electrifying melting pot  who were Southern transplants  Arnolda harmonica master who shared stages with Bo Diddley  Muddy Waters  and Howlin Wolf  plus a singer and hitmaker in his own right who first recorded the standards I Wish You Would and I Aint Got Youwas born right here and has lived nowhere else. This makes his perspective on Chicago blues  its players  and its locales all the rarer and all the more valuable. Arnold has witnessed musical generations come and go  from the decline of prewar country blues to the birth of the electric blues and the worldwide spread of rock and roll. Working here in collaboration with writer and fellow musician Kim Field  he gets it all down. The Blues Dream of Billy Boy Arnold is a remarkably clear-eyed testament to more than eighty years of musical love and creation  from Arnolds adolescent quest to locate the legendary Sonny Boy Williamson  the story of how he named Bo Diddley Bo Diddley  and the ups and downs of his seven-decade recording career. Arnolds talecandidly told with humor  insight  and gritis one that no fan of modern American music can afford to miss.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45118245273653,"sku":"ByrdShop_022680920X","price":27.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-blues-dream-of-billy-boy-arnold-chicago-visions-and-revisions-9780226809205","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}