The Original Guitar Hero and the Power of Music (North Texas Lives of Musicians)
by Dean Alger
Lonnie Johnson (1894-1970) was a virtuoso guitarist who influenced generations of musicians from Django Reinhardt to Eric Clapton to Bill Wyman and especially B. B. King. Born in New Orleans, he began playing violin and guitar in his father's band at an early age. When most of his family was wiped out by the 1918 flu epidemic, he and his surviving brother moved to St. Louis, where he won a blues contest that included a recording contract. His career was launched. Johnson can be heard on many D...
The nostalgic memoir of a young man, eldest of fourteen, growing up in 40s Wednesbury. The heartbreaking true account of his son struggling to come to terms with his father's dementia. A tribute to the unbreakable bond between father and son. When Simon McDermott first noticed his dad Ted's sudden flares of temper and fits of forgetfulness, he couldn't have guessed what lay ahead. Then came the devastating, inevitable diagnosis. As Ted retreated into his own wor...
Ray Charles Coloring Book (Ray Charles Books, #0)
by Cheryl Howard
Irving Berlin (1888-1989) was unable to read or write music and could only play the piano in the key of F-sharp major yet, for the first half of the twentieth century he was America's most successful and most representative songwriter, composing such hits as "Alexander's Ragtime Band," "Cheek to Cheek," "Let's Face the Music and Dance," "Puttin' on the Ritz," "White Christmas," "Anything You Can Do," "There's No Business Like Show Business," and "God Bless America." As Thousands Cheer, winner...
I Love Panic At The Disco More Than Pizza ( And I Really Like Pizza)
by Scopettah Books
A true child prodigy, Gladys Knight was born in Atlanta in 1944 and has been earning her way as a singer since the age of four. By the time she was in high school, she was singing in juke joints and nightclubs as the opening act for the likes of Sam Cooke, Ike and Tina Turner, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, B.B. King, Jackie Wilson and Little Richard. And then there was the Motown years and the multi-Grammy award winning ones that have followed. Along the way she faced many of life's most difficu...
1930s Musicians of Victoria and Pimlico (A World in London Chapbook)
by Alban Low
Freedom is the oldest human value. Traditionally, though, freedom has been seen in rather abstract terms: as something that, since the Enlightenment in particular, is best couched in the complexities of a political philosophy of the sort associated with Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu and Rousseau. Yet for freedom to be real it needs to be something that is experienced, felt, and enjoyed, fought for, and maintained in the face of those who might seek to oppose it. The Land of Dreams explores how th...