Bruce Bastin

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Bruce Bastin (born 19 September 1939) is an English folklorist and a leading expert on the blues music styles of the southeastern states of America (such as East Coast blues and Piedmont blues).{{cite web |url=http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/collections/pa/bastin.html |title=UCSB Library |website=Library.ucsb.edu |access-date=2016-11-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202161841/http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/collections/pa/bastin.html# |archive-date=2 December 2008 |url-status=dead }} In 2022, his publication Red River Blues: The Blues Tradition in the Southeast was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame, as a 'Classic of Blues Literature'.{{Cite web|url=https://blues.org/hall/|title=BLUES HALL OF FAME – About/Inductions|website=Blues.org|access-date=20 March 2022}}

He is responsible for research (done initially with folklorist Peter B. Lowry) over the decades.{{Cite book|title=Continuum encyclopedia of popular music of the world|others=Shepherd, John, 1947-|isbn=0826463223|location=London|oclc=50235133}}

Early life and career

Bastin was born in Chelmsford, Essex, England. A former secondary school geography teacher, he holds a master's degree in folklore from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is the author of two books on the Piedmont blues, Crying for the Carolines and Red River Blues: The Blues Tradition in the Southeast, as well as a biography of music publisher Joe Davis, Never Sell a Copyright.{{Cite web|url=http://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/20428/|title=Bruce Bastin Collection, 1899-2001|website=Finding-aids.lib.unc.edu|access-date=2018-01-16}} He has written articles for music journals and books over the decades, plus liner note essays on the Southeastern blues style.

Bruce Bastin is also the managing director of Interstate Music, Ltd., West Sussex, England, with its labels:

Country Routes
Flyright
Harlequin
Heritage
Krazy Kat
Magpie
Travelin' Man

He has produced and/or programmed albums for them in many musical genres, generally re-issue in nature.{{Cite web|url=http://www.interstate-music.co.uk/index.html|title=Interstate Home Page|website=Interstate-music.co.uk|access-date=2018-01-16}}

Publications

Bastin, Bruce (1971) Crying for the Carolines (London: Studio Vista). {{ISBN|978-0-289-70209-3}}.
Bastin, Bruce (1986/1995) Red River Blues: The Blues Tradition in the Southeast (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press). {{ISBN|0-252-06521-2}}, {{ISBN|978-0-252-06521-7}}{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/redriverblues00bruc|url-access=registration|quote=Lowry|title=Red River Blues: The Blues Tradition in the Southeast|first=Bruce|last=Bastin|date=11 October 1995|publisher=University of Illinois Press|access-date=11 October 2018|isbn=978-0-252-06521-7}}
Bastin, Bruce "Blind Boy Fuller" in Grossman, Stefan & Fuller, Blind Boy Stefan Grossman's early masters of American blues guitar: Blind Boy Fuller, Alfred Music Publishing, 1993 {{ISBN|0-7390-4331-5}}, {{ISBN|978-0-7390-4331-8}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rG4L5ewLjtIC&q=Bruce+Bastin|title=Blind Boy Fulle|date=11 October 2018|publisher=Alfred Music Publishing|access-date=11 October 2018|isbn=978-0-7390-4331-8}}
Bastin, Bruce "Truckin' My Blues Away – East Coast Piedmont Styles" in Lawrence Cohn, ed. (1993). Nothing But the Blues: The Music and the Musicians. Abbeville Publishing Group (Abbeville Press, Inc.), pp. 205–231. {{ISBN|1-55859-271-7}}.

References

External links

[http://www.interstate-music.co.uk/ Flyright Records at Interstate Music Ltd.]
[http://www.wirz.de/music/flyright.htm Illustrated Flyright Records discography]
[http://www.wirz.de/music/krazykat.htm Illustrated Krazy Kat Records discography]
[http://www.wirz.de/music/magpie.htm Illustrated Magpie Records discography]
[http://www.wirz.de/music/travman.htm Illustrated Travelin' Man Records discography]

Category:1939 births

Category:People from Chelmsford

Category:Living people

Category:American musicologists

Category:English folklorists