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Article: NEW SOFT-COVER BOOK CAPTURES, LOOK AND FEEL OF THOSE LIVING THE BLUES.(What's Happening)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- March 7, 1997
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Most photography books of blues artists and their environment have a second-rate feel, as if, like the music, they have been pushed to the back burner of American aesthetics.
Though the recently released ``Really the Blues'' (Woodford Press, 128 pages, $21.95) is a soft-cover book, it is a classy one, with more than 100 black-and-white photographs printed on good-grade, glossy paper.
Stephen Green, photographer for the Chicago Cubs, spent five years snapping pictures of blues performers, their fans and their surroundings.
Green captured the well-known and the unknown dancing on street corners, wailing on harmonicas and pleasing and teasing ...