BIBLIOGRAPHY
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BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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Many books on 50's rock and roll include a mention of Esquerita, but invariably it is little more than a footnote explaining where Little Richard picked up his piano stylings. Little Richard acknowledged his debt to Esquerita in his autobiography, Little Richard: Get Rich Quick, where he calls him "one of the greatest pianists". The bibliography here list sources which consist of more than a mere passing mention. Some valuable sources not listed here are CD liner notes, especially the biographical material written by Steve Kolanjian for the Capitol Collectors Series CD (1990).
Carolina Dreams: The Musical Legacy of Upstate South Carolina by Michael B. Smith (Marshall Tucker Entertainment; 1997). About a page of background info.
Kicks Magazine #3
- (New York, 1984) : includes a phenomenal 5-page interview with Billy Miller. An absolute must for those who obsessively seek to unravel the mysterious past of the Voola.
Kicks Magazine #7
- (New York, 1992) : this one includes a 3-page facsimile spread of a 50's Esquerita pictorial in Sepia magazine along with great blurbs from the earlier mag.
The Great Lost Photographs of Eddie Rocco
(Kicks Books, New York, 1997) - includes 8 photos from the Sepia photo shoot (only a couple are the same as those which actually appeared in Sepia.
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