Blues Unlimited. Collection of 110 rare original Blues Unlimited music magazines from the 1965-1987 period, including issues No 21 (April 1965), 22-24, 31, 35-39, 42-46 and an unbroken run from issue 48 to 149 (Winter 1987, last issue), plus Blues Unlimited Collector Classics issues 5, 7, 11 and 12 (Qty: 114) The first English-language magazine devoted almost entirely to blues, Blues Unlimited, was founded as "The Journal of the Blues Appreciation Society" in Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex, England, in 1963. It was originally a typed, mimeographed pamphlet. Society co-founders Simon Napier and Mike Leadbitter enlisted former Bexhill schoolmate John Broven and a crew of leading experts and collectors from Europe and America. They documented the blues with dedication and discographical depth and published a wealth of pioneering articles. Blues Unlimited covered all eras of blues but distinguished itself especially with its attention to postwar blues and the ongoing activity in Chicago, Louisiana, Texas, and elsewhere, in contrast to the prewar emphasis in most early books on blues. After Leadbitter’s sudden death in 1974, Napier bowed out and an editorial committee of Mike Rowe, Bill Greensmith John Broven and Bez Turner took over and continued the magazine’s proud tradition of quality blues scholarship. Its last issue (#148/149), by then a full-fledged photo-offset production, was published in the winter of 1987.
Blues Unlimited. Collection of 110 rare original Blues Unlimited music magazines from the 1965-1987 period, including issues No 21 (April 1965), 22-24, 31, 35-39, 42-46 and an unbroken run from issue 48 to 149 (Winter 1987, last issue), plus Blues Unlimited Collector Classics issues 5, 7, 11 and 12 (Qty: 114) The first English-language magazine devoted almost entirely to blues, Blues Unlimited, was founded as "The Journal of the Blues Appreciation Society" in Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex, England, in 1963. It was originally a typed, mimeographed pamphlet. Society co-founders Simon Napier and Mike Leadbitter enlisted former Bexhill schoolmate John Broven and a crew of leading experts and collectors from Europe and America. They documented the blues with dedication and discographical depth and published a wealth of pioneering articles. Blues Unlimited covered all eras of blues but distinguished itself especially with its attention to postwar blues and the ongoing activity in Chicago, Louisiana, Texas, and elsewhere, in contrast to the prewar emphasis in most early books on blues. After Leadbitter’s sudden death in 1974, Napier bowed out and an editorial committee of Mike Rowe, Bill Greensmith John Broven and Bez Turner took over and continued the magazine’s proud tradition of quality blues scholarship. Its last issue (#148/149), by then a full-fledged photo-offset production, was published in the winter of 1987.
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