C.Hjort new book

[Mario]

Hello from sunny Italy, folks..

This new book (out in February) should be a very
interesting reading.....

Stay Green,

Mario.

[dansven]

From amazon.com:
Book Description

This definitive look at the British blues explosion centers around three guitarists: Peter Green, Mick Taylor, and especially Eric Clapton. Describing the groups they played in from 1965 to 1970, including John’s Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, Cream, Fleetwood Mac, Blind Faith, and The Rolling Stones, the book is presented in an engaging day-by-day format. With a wealth of illustrations and never-before-published details, the book reveals the way the musicians behind the blues boom worked together, influenced each other, and pushed one another to ever greater achievements

Oooo, I like it!!! Thanks for posting, Mario!

[sharksfan2000]

Thanks for the heads-up on this, Mario. Sounds like it could be interesting. Guess we'll have to wait and see about the "never-before-published details" the description promises.

Mario, do you have any info on what sources the author relied on for his writing about Peter?

The subject of this upcoming book seems similar to the book that Bob Brunning wrote a few years ago -
"Blues: The British Connection: The Stones, Clapton, Fleetwood Mac and the Story of Blues in Britain"
Has anyone here read that book? I've never read it, as I've had questions about its value due to the inaccuracies in Brunning's book on Fleetwood Mac.

[sharksfan2000]

Has anyone gotten the "Strange Brew" book yet? Just curious to find out if it's good.

[BklynBlue]

I've read the Brunning - I would not recommend it for those whose interest in British Blues does not extend much beyond the Mayall / Clapton / Green axis -
The information on these artists is all available elsewhere and often in greater detail -
He does devote pages to under recognized performers such as the Groundhogs, the Pretty Things and Rory Gallagher, but unfortunately the information never delves too deep and leaves huge gaps in their stories -
It is unfortunate that most books on "popular" music are denied the resources, (time, money, editorial help) from the publishers to really do justice to their subjects -
Exceptions would be anything by Peter Guralnick, the late Robert Palmer, Charlie Gillett's "The Sound of the City", Elijah Wald's "Searching For Robert Johnson", Robert Gordon's "I Can't Be Satisfied" (a bio of Muddy Waters) and Jan Mark Wolkin and Bill Keenom's oral history of the life and music of Michael Bloomfield, "If You Love These Blues"

[sharksfan2000]

Thanks for the info on the Brunning book, BklynBlue. I suspected it wouldn't be all that interesting. I'll have to see if the Hjort book shows up in any of my local bookstores and take a look through it.

[Karl-Heinz]

The book arrived yesterday.

It's like a "Diary of Bands" .. eh, guitarists, Clapton, Green and Taylor and the bands they played with. So you get info on studio sessions, concerts, TV and radio broadcasts etc

Not so many news on Peter or FM but it is interesting anyway

[bill]

my copy of the Strange Brew came from Amazon yesterday and if you want to know about where the bands were and who was in them and see some of the promotional posters of the time then it is excellent. If you want to find out anything new about Peter Green then forget it. It is highly Clapton-focused which is a pity.

There is an early bit on the early Bluesbreakers (before Clapton) backing an English tour of T-Bone Walker and you get the impression that the maestro
was a little underwhelmed by the 'loud' English players.

The best (later) section is that covering the equipment they used and there you read about Peter Green's toying back and forth between LP and Strat. That section is interesting.

best wishes
bill