Talking Guitar: Conversations with Musicians Who Shaped Twentieth-Century American Music

by Jas Obrecht

Book Overview

In this lively collection of interviews, storied music writer Jas Obrecht presents a celebration of the world's most popular instrument as seen through the words, lives, and artistry of some of its most beloved players. Readers will read--and hear--accounts of the first guitarists on record, pioneering bluesmen, gospel greats, jazz innovators, country pickers, rocking rebels, psychedelic shape-shifters, singer-songwriters, and other movers and shakers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469631644
• ISBN13: 9781469631646
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.3" x 9.3"