Great Guitarists - Softcover

Kienzle, Rich; Kienzle, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0816010331 ISBN 13: 9780816010332

Publisher: Facts on File, 1986

Synopsis

Offers profiles of the most influential blues, jazz, country, and rock guitarists and indicates some of each artist's best recordings

About this title

From School Library Journal:

YA A detailed critical analysis of guitar innovators from the four basic genres of pop music: blues, country, jazz and rock. In a series of critical essays, Kienzle examines approximately 60 guitarists. Primary essays, four to five pages in length, cover such greats as Elmore James, Chet Atkins, Django Reinhardt and Jimi Hendrix. Secondary essays are one page in length and discuss artists like Muddy Waters, Junior Barnard, Oscar Moore and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Kienzle gives detailed tracings of stylistic approach and growth interspersed with some biographical information. He also describes the individual's contribution and influence on the genre as a whole. Kienzle's knowledge, combined with a lucid text, makes this book accessible to both serious researchers and browsers alike. Text is accompanied by black-and-white photos, a selected discography and an index. Elizabeth Thurston, PGCMLS, Md.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Facts on File
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0816010331
• ISBN 13: 9780816010332
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 246