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Out of the Blue: Life on the Road with Muddy Waters: Life on the Road with Muddy Waters (American Made Music Series)

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Out of the Blue: Life on the Road with Muddy Waters begins with a moment lifted from a young musician&#8217sdreams. Brian Bisesi, a guitarist barely out of his teens, is invited on stage to fill in for a missing member of the band backing blues legend Muddy Waters. This life-changing quirk of fate opens the door into a world of challenges and opportunities that Bisesi, an Italian American reared in the comforts of a New York City suburb, can barely imagine. Despite their differences, Bisesi and Waters hit it off, and what might have been a one-night stand turns into a career. From 1978 to 1980, Bisesi works for Waters as his road manager, bean-counter, and at times his confidant, while often sitting in with the band. Bisesi&#8217syears with the band take him to Europe, Japan, Canada, and across the United States as Waters tours&#8212an parties&#8212wih rock gods like Eric Clapton, the Rolling Stones, a Beatle, and the gamut of musicians who came of age with Waters and introduced a younger generation to the blues. In Out of the Blue, Bisesi captures it all: from the pranks and tensions among bluesmen enduring a hard life on the road, to observations about Waters&#8217stechnique, his love of champagne and reefer, his eye for women, and his sometimes-acrid views of contemporary music. Bisesi has

sharp insights into the ill-conceived management decisions that led to the dissolution of Waters&#8217slongest-serving band in June of 1980. This book will rivet, amuse, and occasionally infuriate blues aficionados. It is a raucous and intimate portrait of the blues scene at a pivotal moment in time that fascinates music historians and blues fans alike.

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