The Astrology of Space - Matrix Software

The Astrology of Space
The All-Music Guide / All-Movie Guide
Michael Erlewine's devotion to studying and playing
the music of Black Americans, in particular blues, led
to his traveling to small blues clubs of Chicago and
hearing live, blues greats like Little Walter, Magic
Sam, Big Walter Horton, and many others. He went
on to interview many dozens of performers. Much of
this interviewing took place at the Ann Arbor Blues
Festivals, in 1969 and 1970, the first electric blues
festivals of any size ever held in North America, and
than later at the Ann Arbor Blues & Jazz Festivals.
With their extensive knowledge of the blues music,
Erlewine and his brother Daniel were asked to play
host to the score or so of professional blues
musicians and their bands. They were in charge of
serving them food and (of course) drink. Michael went
on to interview most of the performers in these early
festivals, with an audio recorder, and later on with
video.
The interviewing led to more study and ultimately
resulted in Michael founding and developing AMG,
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