A BOOK FULL OF BLUES

PERSONAL STORIES, RARE PHOTOS, MEMORABILIA, AND DOCUMENTS FROM WORLDWIDE MUSIC TRIPS 

In his book FURTHER ON UP THE ROAD, Martin Feldmann first takes the readers on five blues journeys through the United States in the 1970s and 1980s. Stops include Chicago, Kansas City, San Francisco/Oakland & the Bay Area, Los Angeles, Austin, Houston, New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Clarksdale, Memphis, and New York.

This is followed by trips to concerts and festivals in Germany and the Netherlands. Then he takes off for Musical trips to the southern hemisphere and finally surprises with peculiar blues stories from the German Sauerland region and beyond. More than 500 rare vintage photos, memorabilia, and contemporary documents illustrate the Texts in English and German.

Even as a schoolboy in Olpe/Westphalia, Martin Feldmann (*1956) spent his nights in front of an old SABA tube radio from 1955 listening to blues and jazz broadcasts. The sound of Muddy Waters, Howlinʼ Wolf, T-Bone Walker, B.B. King, and others excited him so much that he began ordering rare blues records by air mail from the USA. This music never let him go. The Jazz Podium, the Austrian magazine Blues Life, and the newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau published his reports on the African-American music scene in the 1980s. His pics also appeared in the US magazine Living Blues.
Feldmann worked as a full-time journalist at the newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau for almost 30 years. Since 2013, he has been a freelance author. He lives in Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen, Germany.