Out of the Blue: Life on the Road with Muddy Waters begins with a moment lifted from a young musician\'s dreams.
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..
This book will rivet, amuse, and occasionally infuriate blues aficionados.
Bisesi has sharp insights into the ill-conceived management decisions that led to the dissolution of Waters\'s longest-serving band in June of 1980.
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\'s technique, his love of champagne and reefer, his eye for women, and his sometimes-acrid views of contemporary music.
Bisesi\'s years with the band take him to Europe, Japan, Canada, and across the United States as Waters tours--and parties--with 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.
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.
Despite their differences, Bisesi and Waters hit it off, and what might have been a one-night stand turns into a career.
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.
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.
Out of the Blue: Life on the Road with Muddy Waters begins with a moment lifted from a young musician\'s dreams
