The best and most ambitious book about Jimi Hendrix, being reissued with a new introduction on the 70th anniversary of Hendrix's birth.[...]
Called by "Entertainment Weekly" "The best book on Hendrix," "Crosstown Traffic" rode their A-list for over two months and won the prestigious Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award. Roots-savvy British critic Charles Shaar Murray assesses the lifework of guitarist Jimi Hendrix in the context of black mu[...]
With John Lee Hooker's death in June 2001 the world lost one of the last great Mississippi Delta bluesmen. Acclaimed writer Charles Schaar Murray's" Boogie Man" is the authorized and authoritative biography of this musician whose extraordinary career spanned over fifty years and included over one-hu[...]