[head]
Ray Charles • Ruth Brown • James Cotton • Buddy Guy • John Lee Hooker • B.B. King Taj Mahal • Charlie Musselwhite • Koko Taylor • Junior Wells • Aerosmith • Eddie Van Halen • Robert Plant • Carlos Santana • Bob Weir • Marcia Ball • Johnny Winter • John Mayall • Keb’ Mo’ • Susan Tedeschi • Shemekia Copeland • Blues Traveler • and more!
[endorsement quotes]
“An absolutely essential addition to any blues library . . . informative, enlightening, and plenty of fun to read. Highly recommended!”
––Robert Santelli, author, Big Book of Blues and The Best of the Blues
[alternative Santelli quote if space allows: “An absolutely essential addition to any blues library. The interviews are informative, enlightening, and plenty of fun to read. Highly recommended!”
—Robert Santelli, author, Big Book of Blues and The Best of the Blues]
“What a great compilation––a perfect complement to the radio show and a historical database of unparalleled value.”
––Bob Vorel, Publisher Emeritus, Blues Revue magazine
“No second-hand stories. No editorialized interpretations. Here are their own words––as pure and honest as the music they create.”
––Gaye Adegbalola, solo artist and frontwoman for Saffire, the Uppity Blues Women
“More than a transcription of the radio show; it is guidebook for a journey through the blues.”
––Dave Benson, Program Director, KFOG-FM San Francisco
[body copy]
Born in the Delta 100 years ago, the music known as the blues has meandered through Mississippi juke joints and Chicago nightclubs, Texas roadhouses and Memphis studios, and on to concert halls worldwide and back again, each twist in the road producing a new permutation of this timeless music. Elwood’s Blues is the story of the music makers along those roads, the artists who have created, re-envisioned, and remembered the blues.
The blues found its way onto The House of Blues Radio Hour in 1993, ushered in by host Dan Aykroyd and producer Ben Manilla. Every week, the award-winning radio program has brought in-depth artist profiles and the complete spectrum of blues music to millions of listeners across North America. Now––for the first time––these insightful, entertaining, and historical interviews have been compiled for you to study and enjoy––come along for a ride with the blues!
Elwood’s Blues features:
· Interviews and biographies of the blues’ greatest artists, past and present, plus the rock stars who keep the tradition
· Selected discography of essential blues tracks
· Transcripts of the hilarious skits performed by Dan Aykroyd, a.k.a. Elwood Blues, on The House of Blues Radio Hour
[bios]
For nearly three decades Dan Aykroyd has brought his brilliant comedic and dramatic style to films and television. As members of the cast and writing staff of Saturday Night Live, Dan and John Belushi introduced Jake and Elwood Blues, the Blues Brothers, to an enthusiastic public.
J. Ben Manilla is president of the award-winning Ben Manilla Productions, whose shows include the long-running House of Blues Radio Hour and the 13-part documentary The Blues, the most widely distributed special in the history of Public Radio International.
A portion of the proceeds from Elwood's Blues goes to the nonprofit Blues Foundation, www.blues.org.
[Backbeat Books logo, ISBN 0-87930-809-5, $17.95]