William Stout (1) (1949–)

Done in the R. Crumb style, this is a handy companion to his trading cards and book thereof. It concentrates on the post war blues artists, and so for me provides nice thumb-nail sketches of their biographies and most important records of artists I had seldom paid a great deal of attention to. In that sense, it can act as a good introduction to the post war blues, and perhaps the pre war artists will draw an audience less attentive to them in the opposite direction.

As an art book, it has lovely pictures and is well bound and printed, and surprisingly inexpensive.… (altro)