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All Music Guide to Soul: The Definitive Guide to R&B and Soul
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All Music Guide to Soul: The Definitive Guide to R&B and Soul
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by Vladimir Bogdanov, Chris Woodstra, and Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Sales Rank: 131061
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List Price: $26.95
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on 12-29-2007.
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Features
Paperback: 900 pages
Publisher: Backbeat Books June 2003
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0879307447
ISBN-13: 978-0879307448
Product Dimensions:
9.1 x 7.4 x 2 inches
Shipping Weight: 4 pounds
Book Description
This comprehensive guide is a must-have for the legions of fans of the beloved and perennially popular music known as soul and rhythm and blues. The latest in the definitive All Music Guide series, the All Music Guide to Soul offers nearly 8,500 entertaining and informative reviews that lead readers to the best recordings by more than 1,500 artists and help them find new music to explore. Informative biographies, essays and "music maps" trace RandB's growth from its roots in blues and gospel through its flowering in Memphis and Motown, to its many branches today. Complete discographies note bootlegs, important out-of-print albums, and import-only releases. "Extremely valuable and exhaustive." - The Christian Science Monitor
Owner Reviews, Ratings, Comments and Criticism
I had never owned an All Music Guide and I have been told by fellow music collectors that they are really terrific. Seeing that All Music had just recently published their new guide to R & B and Soul I decided to give it a try. I must say I was impressed by the extensive detail given to each entry in this book. You would not only learn the history of an artist or group, but in many cases you got an update as to what the artist was doing nowadays. This was impressive and distinguishes this book from others I have seen on the market. The book covers a wide array of genres including rhythm and blues, soul, funk, disco and one of my personal favorites doo wop. There is one major problem however. The print is so small that I got a headache trying to read it. Try as a might I just could not get past this major flaw. I wound up sending it back. Too bad. I suspect anyone over the age of 40 will encounter the same problem. It seems to me that it would have been much wiser to divide this into 2 volumes with print that you could actually read. I would have gladly paid the difference.
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