1960 The Country Blues

Description

In the publisher's original dark cloth binding.

With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper, designed by Denis Piper.

This volume is the first UK edition of this work. First edition, thus.

This copy features multiple black-and-white photographic plate illustrations. 

This edition of serves as a comprehensive documentation of the history and evolution of Blues and Jazz in American music. Charters traces the origins of Blues in 19th-century slave songs, field hollers, and spirituals, to its development into its modern musical form. Charters focuses on artists such as Blind Lemon Jefferson, Lonnie Johnson, Leroy Carr, Brownie McGhee, Blind Willie McTell, Big Bill Broonzy, Muddy Waters, Lightnin’ Hopkins, and Robert Johnson.

Samuel Barclay Charters IV (1929–2015) was an American music historian, author, record producer, musician, and poet, best known for his influential writings on blues and jazz.