At long last—the truth about the birth of the blues, rock 'n' roll, country and jazz!
Draw a straight line from New Orleans to Nashville, then over to Memphis and back down to New Orleans, following the curves of the Mississippi River, and you have the Mojo Triangle, a phrase coined by the author in the early 2000's.
It is a land area in which all of America's original roots music was created: Country, Blues, Jazz, and Rock 'n' Roll. How did this music come about? What is there about the Mojo Triangle that has contributed to the creation of so much original music?
Where were the portals into the Mojo Triangle through which the various musical components entered and then morphed into the finished products we revere today? (Answer: Natchez, Mississippi and Nashville, Tennessee).
Based on interviews with the recording artists, musicians, producers and songwriters who created and performed the music, it traces the development of the music from the early 1800s in Natchez, Mississippi, where Native Americans played an instrumental role in the development of the blues, all the way up to the present day.
There is probably no author in history who has interviewed as many music legends and musicians as the author—and the reader benefits from that experience in a big way. Among the music legends who participate are: Al Green, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Stevie Ray Vaughan, B.B. King, Carl Perkins, Carla Thomas, Rufus Thomas, Chet Atkins, Ike Turner, Jack Clement, Marty Stuart, Mose Allison, Rita Coolidge, Roy Orbison, Scotty Moore, Tammy Wynette, Vince Gill, Waylon Jennings, Garth Brooks, Chips Moman, Billy Sherrill, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Jimme Vaughan, Willie Mitchell, Booker T. & the MGs, Bobby Womack, Estelle Axton, Dave Edmunds, Pinetop Perkins, Bobbie Gentry, and the list goes on and on.
This incredible book, which contains rare photographs, some of which were taken by the author himself, not only allows the music greats themselves to express themselves about the music they made famous, it explains for the first time the development of that music.
WHAT ARE OTHERS ARE SAYING
"A Rich and rewarding book."—Beth Goehring, The Literary Guild
"Mojo Triangle is a very good book. Author James L. Dickerson, a Southerner himself, has written a great, in-depth history of the area and its musical background … all aimed at the birthplace of American music. He hit it right on the button."—Scotty Moore, Elvis Presley's first guitarist and manager
"In the search for a unified-field theory of American popular music, few journalists come as well equipped as James L. Dickerson. Blessed with the scene-setting panache of a natural storyteller, an eye for the telling detail, and the audacity to reach for the big picture, Dickerson has walked back out of the jungle bearing this remarkable, pioneering compendium … Again and again Dickerson dredges up forgotten or suppressed histories and teases out connections that other historians of southern music have missed. I learned a great deal from this book."—Adam Gussow, author of Mister Satan's Apprentice: A Blues Memoir
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Draw a straight line from New Orleans to Nashville, then over to Memphis and back down to New Orleans, following the curves of the Mississippi River, and you have the Mojo Triangle, a phrase coined by the author in the early 2000's.
It is a land area in which all of America's original roots music was created: Country, Blues, Jazz, and Rock 'n' Roll. How did this music come about? What is there about the Mojo Triangle that has contributed to the creation of so much original music?
Where were the portals into the Mojo Triangle through which the various musical components entered and then morphed into the finished products we revere today? (Answer: Natchez, Mississippi and Nashville, Tennessee).
Based on interviews with the recording artists, musicians, producers and songwriters who created and performed the music, it traces the development of the music from the early 1800s in Natchez, Mississippi, where Native Americans played an instrumental role in the development of the blues, all the way up to the present day.
There is probably no author in history who has interviewed as many music legends and musicians as the author—and the reader benefits from that experience in a big way. Among the music legends who participate are: Al Green, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Stevie Ray Vaughan, B.B. King, Carl Perkins, Carla Thomas, Rufus Thomas, Chet Atkins, Ike Turner, Jack Clement, Marty Stuart, Mose Allison, Rita Coolidge, Roy Orbison, Scotty Moore, Tammy Wynette, Vince Gill, Waylon Jennings, Garth Brooks, Chips Moman, Billy Sherrill, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Jimme Vaughan, Willie Mitchell, Booker T. & the MGs, Bobby Womack, Estelle Axton, Dave Edmunds, Pinetop Perkins, Bobbie Gentry, and the list goes on and on.
This incredible book, which contains rare photographs, some of which were taken by the author himself, not only allows the music greats themselves to express themselves about the music they made famous, it explains for the first time the development of that music.
WHAT ARE OTHERS ARE SAYING
"A Rich and rewarding book."—Beth Goehring, The Literary Guild
"Mojo Triangle is a very good book. Author James L. Dickerson, a Southerner himself, has written a great, in-depth history of the area and its musical background … all aimed at the birthplace of American music. He hit it right on the button."—Scotty Moore, Elvis Presley's first guitarist and manager
"In the search for a unified-field theory of American popular music, few journalists come as well equipped as James L. Dickerson. Blessed with the scene-setting panache of a natural storyteller, an eye for the telling detail, and the audacity to reach for the big picture, Dickerson has walked back out of the jungle bearing this remarkable, pioneering compendium … Again and again Dickerson dredges up forgotten or suppressed histories and teases out connections that other historians of southern music have missed. I learned a great deal from this book."—Adam Gussow, author of Mister Satan's Apprentice: A Blues Memoir
Mojo Triangle: Birthplace of Country, Blues, Jazz and Rock 'n' Roll
At long last—the truth about the birth of the blues, rock 'n' roll, country and jazz!
Draw a straight line from New Orleans to Nashville, then over to Memphis and back down to New Orleans, following the curves of the Mississippi River, and you have the Mojo Triangle, a phrase coined by the author in the early 2000's.
It is a land area in which all of America's original roots music was created: Country, Blues, Jazz, and Rock 'n' Roll. How did this music come about? What is there about the Mojo Triangle that has contributed to the creation of so much original music?
Where were the portals into the Mojo Triangle through which the various musical components entered and then morphed into the finished products we revere today? (Answer: Natchez, Mississippi and Nashville, Tennessee).
Based on interviews with the recording artists, musicians, producers and songwriters who created and performed the music, it traces the development of the music from the early 1800s in Natchez, Mississippi, where Native Americans played an instrumental role in the development of the blues, all the way up to the present day.
There is probably no author in history who has interviewed as many music legends and musicians as the author—and the reader benefits from that experience in a big way. Among the music legends who participate are: Al Green, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Stevie Ray Vaughan, B.B. King, Carl Perkins, Carla Thomas, Rufus Thomas, Chet Atkins, Ike Turner, Jack Clement, Marty Stuart, Mose Allison, Rita Coolidge, Roy Orbison, Scotty Moore, Tammy Wynette, Vince Gill, Waylon Jennings, Garth Brooks, Chips Moman, Billy Sherrill, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Jimme Vaughan, Willie Mitchell, Booker T. & the MGs, Bobby Womack, Estelle Axton, Dave Edmunds, Pinetop Perkins, Bobbie Gentry, and the list goes on and on.
This incredible book, which contains rare photographs, some of which were taken by the author himself, not only allows the music greats themselves to express themselves about the music they made famous, it explains for the first time the development of that music.
WHAT ARE OTHERS ARE SAYING
"A Rich and rewarding book."—Beth Goehring, The Literary Guild
"Mojo Triangle is a very good book. Author James L. Dickerson, a Southerner himself, has written a great, in-depth history of the area and its musical background … all aimed at the birthplace of American music. He hit it right on the button."—Scotty Moore, Elvis Presley's first guitarist and manager
"In the search for a unified-field theory of American popular music, few journalists come as well equipped as James L. Dickerson. Blessed with the scene-setting panache of a natural storyteller, an eye for the telling detail, and the audacity to reach for the big picture, Dickerson has walked back out of the jungle bearing this remarkable, pioneering compendium … Again and again Dickerson dredges up forgotten or suppressed histories and teases out connections that other historians of southern music have missed. I learned a great deal from this book."—Adam Gussow, author of Mister Satan's Apprentice: A Blues Memoir
Draw a straight line from New Orleans to Nashville, then over to Memphis and back down to New Orleans, following the curves of the Mississippi River, and you have the Mojo Triangle, a phrase coined by the author in the early 2000's.
It is a land area in which all of America's original roots music was created: Country, Blues, Jazz, and Rock 'n' Roll. How did this music come about? What is there about the Mojo Triangle that has contributed to the creation of so much original music?
Where were the portals into the Mojo Triangle through which the various musical components entered and then morphed into the finished products we revere today? (Answer: Natchez, Mississippi and Nashville, Tennessee).
Based on interviews with the recording artists, musicians, producers and songwriters who created and performed the music, it traces the development of the music from the early 1800s in Natchez, Mississippi, where Native Americans played an instrumental role in the development of the blues, all the way up to the present day.
There is probably no author in history who has interviewed as many music legends and musicians as the author—and the reader benefits from that experience in a big way. Among the music legends who participate are: Al Green, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Stevie Ray Vaughan, B.B. King, Carl Perkins, Carla Thomas, Rufus Thomas, Chet Atkins, Ike Turner, Jack Clement, Marty Stuart, Mose Allison, Rita Coolidge, Roy Orbison, Scotty Moore, Tammy Wynette, Vince Gill, Waylon Jennings, Garth Brooks, Chips Moman, Billy Sherrill, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Jimme Vaughan, Willie Mitchell, Booker T. & the MGs, Bobby Womack, Estelle Axton, Dave Edmunds, Pinetop Perkins, Bobbie Gentry, and the list goes on and on.
This incredible book, which contains rare photographs, some of which were taken by the author himself, not only allows the music greats themselves to express themselves about the music they made famous, it explains for the first time the development of that music.
WHAT ARE OTHERS ARE SAYING
"A Rich and rewarding book."—Beth Goehring, The Literary Guild
"Mojo Triangle is a very good book. Author James L. Dickerson, a Southerner himself, has written a great, in-depth history of the area and its musical background … all aimed at the birthplace of American music. He hit it right on the button."—Scotty Moore, Elvis Presley's first guitarist and manager
"In the search for a unified-field theory of American popular music, few journalists come as well equipped as James L. Dickerson. Blessed with the scene-setting panache of a natural storyteller, an eye for the telling detail, and the audacity to reach for the big picture, Dickerson has walked back out of the jungle bearing this remarkable, pioneering compendium … Again and again Dickerson dredges up forgotten or suppressed histories and teases out connections that other historians of southern music have missed. I learned a great deal from this book."—Adam Gussow, author of Mister Satan's Apprentice: A Blues Memoir
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| BN ID: | 2940150071551 |
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| Publisher: | Sartoris Literary Group, Inc. |
| Publication date: | 11/27/2014 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 2 MB |
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