Blowing The Blues. - The Music Shelf

Bookwatch, The, Sept, 2004

Blowing The Blues

Dick Heckstall-Smith & Pete Grant

Clear Books

c/o Internationall Publishers Marketing

PO Box 605, Herndon, VA 20172-0605

1904555047 $24.95 www.clearpress.co.uk

Most blues guides focus on American blues music: Dick Heckstall-Smith and Pete Grant's Blowing The Blues covers fifty years of playing British blues, includes cd with previously unreleased tracks, and provides insights into blues saxophone to accompany a blend of autobiography and British blues history. Add cartoons by Biff making comments on the life of a blues musician and you have a honest survey of the music scene of the British blues world.