Beautiful images from the legendary Ann Arbor
Blues Festival – a long-running even that's pulled together an amazing range
of talent over the years – a good number
of whom are featured here! The festival probably hit its biggest fame in the early 70s – when recordings documented work by Sun Ra, Art Ensemble, and many
blues musicians – and most
of the images here even predate those years, as almost all the photographs appear to be from 1969 and 1970 – huge appearances for still-living
blues legends! The quality
of the images is great – and the book features images
of John Lee Hooker, Son
House, Sippie Wallace, Sunnyland Slim, Roosevelt Sykes, Fred McDowell, Little Brother Montgomery, Willie Dixon, Robert Lockwood, Buddy Guy, Lowell Fulson, and many others – all in crisp, vintage black and white. 128 pages, softcover, with images throughout.