How Blues Evolved Volume One

Packed with fascinating old photographs, many of them rare, this enthralling new exploration of the blues brings together the various historical strands that combined to create, perhaps, the most emotive musical genre of them all. Trace blues’ fascinating history. Find out who first used the term the blues. Discover the first documented performances of what became blues and when such music first started to sound like the blues we recognise today. Hundreds of your questions about this irresistible music are answered in How Blues Evolved, an illustrated history of the music that gave us pop, rock, jazz and rock and roll. Now available in two easy-to-read volumes.