Blues All Day Long
The Jimmy Rogers Story
by Wayne Everett Goins
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Pub Date Sep 15 2014 | Archive Date Aug 14 2014
Description
In Blues All Day Long, Wayne Everett Goins mines seventy-five hours of interviews with Rogers' family, collaborators, and peers to follow a life spent in the blues. Goins' account takes Rogers from recording Chess classics and barnstorming across the South to a late-in-life renaissance that included new music, entry into the Blues Hall of Fame, and high profile tours with Eric Clapton and the Rolling Stones. Informed and definitive, Blues All Day Long fills a gap in twentieth century music history with the story of one of the blues' eminent figures and one of the genre's seminal bands.
Wayne Everett Goins is a professor of music and director of jazz at Kansas State University. He is the author of Pat Metheny's Secret Story and co-author of Charlie Christian: Jazz Guitar's King of Swing.
Advance Praise
"Great work. Long, long overdue."--Taj Mahal
"A great read. I loved it. What a nice tribute to the great Jimmy Rogers."--Charlie Musselwhite
"Jimmy Rogers was the most under-appreciated of all the postwar
Chicago blues pioneers--until now. Deep, heartfelt, and immaculately
researched, Blues All Day Long sets the record straight. A major contribution to blues lore."--Jas Obrecht, former editor, Guitar Player magazine
"Blues All Day Long
bestows Jimmy Rogers with all the respect and attention he has long
deserved for his integral role in the development of classic Chicago
blues. Author Wayne Goins is uniquely qualified to tell the story of the
man and his music, not only because of his expertise as an academic and
as a guitarist, but because of the cultural pride he carries as a
native of the same vibrant South Side Chicago turf that was the home of
Jimmy Rogers."--Jim O'Neal, blues producer and co-founder of Living Blues magazine and co-editor of The Voice of the Blues
"Jimmy Rogers' life and music are critical parts of blues history. He
was an affirmation of the beauty of true ensemble playing and the
enduring power of simplicity and directness, and his repertoire has
become central to the canon. Wayne Goins has done an exhaustive,
diligent, and discerning job of shedding light on the contributions of a
man who helped define Chicago blues. Both the subject and the treatment
are worthy of celebration."--Dick Shurman, blues producer and historian
"Since Paul Oliver established the accepted template for
blues in regard to timeline, genre, and geographic location, the real
work left to blues writers/researchers has been to profile the lives and
careers of the individuals who played and sang the blues and those that
recorded and distributed the music. With his book Blues All Day Long, Goins adds another valuable tile to the overall mosaic of postwar Chicago blues."--Steve Cushing, host of Blues before Sunrise and author of Pioneers of the Blues Revival
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9780252080173 |
| PRICE | $29.00 (USD) |
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