The Blues: In Images and Interviews

"There's one thing that makes the whole thing worthwhile. One night a month, maybe two nights a month, something clicks. You're playing and you're not thinking and it's coming straight from your feelings to your hands. That's what it's all about; you get addictied!" Bob Riedy tells it like it is with that addictive music- the blues. Riedy and more than forty other blues personalities gets personal in the new book by Anthony Connor and Robert Neff, The Blues: In Images and Interviews.

One hundred and forty-two pages of collective comments and memories from the infamous, such as BB King, KoKo Taylor and John Lee Hooker to the lesser known blues personalities, Lightin' Hopkins, Willie Dixon and Big Mama Thornton.

The pictures taken by the late Robert Neff are "caught in that moment" shots of various artists, hitting a particular note or perhaps striking an untouchable cord. The meat of this book is not rooted in it photos but in the text.

Bob Riedy shares, "I remember to this day where I first heard real blues-where I was standing and everything. I wandered into Mother Blue's Club; Otis Rush was playing on a Tuesday night, and watching him was like watching a folk hero....Right then and there I decided that was what I wanted to play. All I had to do was find a way."

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