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Searching for Robert Johnson
Peter Guralnick
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The Life and Legend of the "King of the Delta Blues Singers"
出版Hachette UK, 2020-08-25
主題Music / Genres & Styles / BluesBiography & Autobiography / MusicBiography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts
ISBN03163043799780316304375
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=43j2DwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋This highly acclaimed biography from the author of Last Train to Memphis illuminates the extraordinary life of one of the most influential blues singers of all time, the legendary guitarist and songwriter whose music inspired generations of musicians, from Muddy Waters to the Rolling Stones and beyond.
 
The myth of Robert Johnson’s short life has often overshadowed his music. When he died in 1938 at the age of just twenty-seven, poisoned by the jealous husband of a woman he’d been flirting with at a dance, Johnson had recorded only twenty-nine songs. But those songs would endure as musical touchstones for generations of blues performers. With fresh insights and new information gleaned since its original publication, this brief biographical exploration brilliantly examines both the myth and the music.
 
Much in the manner of his masterful biographies of Elvis Presley, Sam Phillips, and Sam Cooke, Peter Guralnick here gives readers an insightful, thought-provoking, and deeply felt picture, removing much of the obscurity that once surrounded Johnson without forfeiting any of the mystery. “I finished the book," declared the New York Times Book Review, "feeling that, if only for a brief moment, Robert Johnson had stepped out of the mists.”