Download or read book Sam and the Boogie Man written by Ericka Boussarhane and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sam and the boogie man is a wonderful tale of a little boy that conquers his fears of the boogie man in his closet. Sam begins the story sleeping with his parents in their over crowded bed. As the story continues, Sam tries several ideas to rid his closet of the boogie man. After all esle fails, Sam uses music to cause the bogie man to boogie away. The whole family will enjoy this funnny and enpowering story.
Download or read book Dream Boogie written by Peter Guralnick and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most influential African American singers/songwriters in the late 1950s, Sam Cooke was among the first to blend gospel music and secular themes - the early foundation of soul music. He was the opposite of Elvis: a black performer who appealed to white audiences, who wrote his own songs, who controlled his own business destiny. In Dream Boogie, bestselling author Peter Guralnick captures Sam Cooke's remarkable accomplishment and chronicles his moving and important story, from Cooke's childhood as a choirboy to an adulthood when he was anything but that.
Download or read book The Boogie Man s Birthday written by Eric Williams and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Boogie Man’s Birthday is a good story about people coming together and trying to stop evil from coming back. Author Eric D. Williams loves writing supernatural stories about witches and ghosts. He came up with the idea of The Boogie Man’s Birthday while reading the last book in the Bible.
Download or read book Sam Phillips The Man Who Invented Rock n Roll written by Peter Guralnick and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the critically acclaimed Elvis Presley biography: Last Train to Memphis brings us the life of Sam Phillips, the visionary genius who singlehandedly steered the revolutionary path of Sun Records. The music that he shaped in his tiny Memphis studio with artists as diverse as Elvis Presley, Ike Turner, Howlin' Wolf, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Johnny Cash, introduced a sound that had never been heard before. He brought forth a singular mix of black and white voices passionately proclaiming the vitality of the American vernacular tradition while at the same time declaring, once and for all, a new, integrated musical day. With extensive interviews and firsthand personal observations extending over a 25-year period with Phillips, along with wide-ranging interviews with nearly all the legendary Sun Records artists, Guralnick gives us an ardent, unrestrained portrait of an American original as compelling in his own right as Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, or Thomas Edison.
Download or read book I O U INVESTIGATORS OF THE UNKNOWN written by Thomas Allen Bateham and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-06-18 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Masters a reporter in Chicago with Doctor Adam Stonefish. Discover a world of darkness. Learning of many horrors. Science gone mad, dark magic, demons among other things. They face the undead. They learn exciting powers. Helping to face the unknown.Thomas learns the power of the druid. Adam is a shaman calling upon the spirits. Later joined by Tom's younger brother Sam a psychic. Then there is John Cullen a scientist. Last is Raymond Mitchell a student of John's. He is a wizard over the forces of magic.They keep the world safe from the darkness. They are joined by unlikely allies moreover friends. They face off against The Lord of Darkness, a living legend, a creature wanting a worldwide holy war. They face off against powerful sorcerers. They are challenged by evil forces. Will they stand keeping the darkness at bay? On the other hand, does darkness win engulfing the world? Come along on the journey and find out.
Download or read book The Big Boxcar written by Alfred Maund and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Like Chaucer's pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales, each of these travelers has a story to tell. These stories - of humor and humiliation, of prostitution and pride, of love and murder - reveal the lives and secrets of the tellers and give this transient community self-respect and solidarity as it hurtles toward arrest or worse."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Boogie Man written by Charles Shaar Murray and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed writer Charles Shaar Murray's Boogie Man is the authorized and authoritative biography of an extraordinary musician. Murray was given unparalleled access to Hooker, and he lets the man from Clarksdale, Mississippi, tell his own story. "Everything you read on album covers is not true, and every album reads different," he told Murray. Murray helps Hooker set the record straight, disentangling the myths and legends from truths so rock-ribbed that we understand, as if for the first time, why they have provided the source for a lifetime of unforgettable sound. Murray weaves together Hooker's life and music to reveal their indissoluble bonds. Yet Boogie Man is far more than merely an accomplished and brilliant biography of one man; it gives an account of an entire art form. Grounded in a time and place in American culture, the blues are universal, and in the hands of the greatest practitioners its power resides in the miracle of using despair to transcend it. "The preacher's mantle," Murray tells us, "passes to the bluesman." This bluesman traveled a hard road out of the American South, from obscurity to adulation and back-and back again. John Lee Hooker has seen it all and sung it all, and his music is both a living legacy and an American treasure. Here is the book that does him and his music full justice.
Download or read book 31 Horrifying Tales from the Dead Volume 2 written by Drac Von Stoller and published by Drac Von Stoller. This book was released on 2012-08-23 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 31 Horrifying Tales from the Dead Volume II is a continuation of short stories authored by Horror fiction writer Drac Von Stoller. More scary tales about ghosts, witches, supernatural, occult, demons, zombies, aliens and urban legends.
Download or read book Nine Lives written by F. Say and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After tragedy on a rain-slick road leaves Sam a widower and single father, he concludes the tragedy was a design of fate he had somehow evaded. Eventually, his lack of faith is exchanged for fear that it is not his life that is in jeopardy but quite possibly his soul.
Download or read book It Came From Memphis written by Robert Gordon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-11 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gordon's critically acclaimed and richly entertaining exploration of the birthplace of rock and roll is peopled with Delta bluesmen, manic deejays, matinee cowboys and Elvis.
Download or read book The Willing Spirit written by L. A. Hamilton and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Story of Chess Records written by John Collis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1998-10-15 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If one man can be credited with creating the language of rock 'n' roll it is Chuck Berry. In the early 1950's he was just an ambitious Nat "King" Cole imitator gigging in St Louis, but ten years after moving to Chicago and cutting is first hit, "Maybelline", in 1955, he built a catalogue of classics that inspired the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and every rock musician since. Meanwhile his Chicago rival Bo Diddley, the earthiest and arguably the most exciting of the rock 'n' roll performers, was reminding us that this music was just a step away from the blues. Although he was raised in Chicago, his music was a bizarre, electric version of the blues of his birthplace, Mississippi. Between them Chuck and Bo caused a revolution in Chicago blues, hitherto largely unknown to white America and the mass market. Both were signed to Chess Records, established by Eastern European immigrants, the Chess brothers, who provided the shop window for Chicago bluesmen, while also conforming to a now all-too-familiar pattern, as white entrepreneurs exploiting black talent. Chess Records both examines the subject of exploitation within the record business and celebrated the music of two unique and important artists and the extraordinarily fertile blues environment out of which they grew.
Download or read book Woman with Guitar written by Paul Garon and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 2021-02-24 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Universally recognized as one of the greatest blues artists, Memphis Minnie (1897–1973) wrote and recorded hundreds of songs. Blues people as diverse as Muddy Waters, Johnny Shines, Big Mama Thornton, and Chuck Berry have acknowledged her as a major influence. At a time when most female vocalists sang Tin Pan Alley material, Minnie wrote her own lyrics and accompanied her singing with virtuoso guitar playing. Thanks to her merciless imagination and dark humor, her songs rank among the most vigorous and challenging popular poetry in any language. Woman with Guitar is the first full-length study of the life and work of this extraordinary free spirit, focusing on the lively interplay between Minnie's evolving artistry and the African American community in which she lived and worked. Drawing on folklore, psychoanalysis, critical theory, women's studies, and surrealism, the authors' explorations of Minnie's songs illuminate the poetics of popular culture as well as the largely hidden history of working-class women's self-emancipation. This revised and expanded edition includes a wealth of new biographical material, including photographs, record contracts, sheet music, and period advertisements, which further vivify this portrait of an African American musical legend. Complete, updated discography included. "Woman with Guitar is a fascinating, thorough and extremely valuable biography of one of American musical history's most vibrant and pioneering artists. As the first woman singer/songwriter/ guitarist to ever reach stardom, the story of her life in music, on and off the stage, during one of the most important and formative periods of the origins of popular music, is an indelible, crucial window into that history."—Bonnie Raitt "Woman with Guitar has been, since it was first published in 1992 and now with this new revised and extended edition, still the only real definitive biography of Memphis Minnie, the most important female singer, songwriter and guitarist in the history of Delta blues."—Lucinda Williams "As a most ardent and devoted lifelong fan of Memphis Minnie and her music, I avidly devoured the original Woman with Guitar when it first came out in 1992. Now I am excited to be reading this new edition, and so grateful for it's additional rare photos and carefully researched details, which shed even more light on this seminal, iconic, almost mythical musical pioneer, who was way ahead of her time, and whose soulful music and life so deeply inspired and influenced so many! A must read — whether you are already a Memphis Minnie fan, or just discovering her for the first time!" — Maria Muldaur "An excellent book."—Bill Wyman "Woman with Guitar is not simply a carefully researched biography of Memphis Minnie, complied from the memories of her relatives, friends, and fellow performers; it is a vivid portrait of a talented singer and guitarist . . . The authors have added a new dimension to blues scholarship."—Paul Oliver, author of Blues Off the Record "Woman with Guitar is a delight. The book is both thorough and brilliant, a rare combination these days. . . . A fanatic interest in Minnie underpins and energizes this wonderful biography."—David Roediger, author of The Wages of Whiteness Paul Garon is a co-founder of Living Blues magazine and author of The Devil's Son-in-Law and Blues and the Poetic Spirit. Beth Garon is a painter and collagist. The Garons operate a rare-book business in Chicago, Illinois, and have been associated with the US surrealist movement for many years.
Download or read book A Ghost in a Coal Mine written by Johnny Napier and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Entertaining Tucson Across the Decades Volume 2 1986 1989 written by Robert E. Zucker and published by BZB Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second of four volumes that cover the Tucson entertainment scene during the second half of the 20th century. Volume 2 features hundreds of local musicians and actors between the years 1986 through 1989. Compiled from articles, interviews and original photographs published in the Entertainment Magazine during those years.
Download or read book Universal Horrors written by Tom Weaver and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised and updated since its first publication in 1990, this acclaimed critical survey covers the classic chillers produced by Universal Studios during the golden age of hollywood horror, 1931 through 1946. Trekking boldly through haunts and horrors from The Frankenstein Monster, The Wolf Man, Count Dracula, and The Invisible Man, to The Mummy, Paula the Ape Woman, The Creeper, and The Inner Sanctum, the authors offer a definitive study of the 86 films produced during this era and present a general overview of the period. Coverage of the films includes complete cast lists, credits, storyline, behind-the-scenes information, production history, critical analysis, and commentary from the cast and crew (much of it drawn from interviews by Tom Weaver, whom USA Today calls "the king of the monster hunters"). Unique to this edition are a new selection of photographs and poster reproductions and an appendix listing additional films of interest.
Download or read book Phage written by Mark Tamplin and published by Scott Pierson. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before you stabbed your fork into your salad, did you consider a menacing drone could have flown over the lettuce field? Should our vegetable fields be NO-DRONE ZONES? Mark Tamplin, pathogen expert and international best-selling author of Phage, exposes the soft underbelly of our nation’s biodefense system, revealing vulnerabilities when the bio-terrorist comes from within the government institutions meant to keep us safe. In Phage, Dr. Sam Townsend faces the greatest challenge of his career, preventing a deranged government scientist from unleashing a genetically-engineered pathogen on the USA population.
