The Bluesman Experience Comes Alive!
Writer Rob Vollmar begins a series of concerts/booksignings to promote his latest graphic novel, Bluesman at the Borders Books and Music at 3209 NW Expressway in Oklahoma City this Saturday. Bluesman is a taut period thriller that pushes the boundaries of the graphic novel form in its celebration of blues music as an artform while addressing crucial issues of race, class, and faith that continue to define American life today. The tour, dubbed the Bluesman Experience, features Vollmar playing a collection of country blues and gospel songs from the early part of the 20th century and discussing his graphic novel.
“My goal,” Vollmar notes, “is to rescue this fantastic music from the dry historical context in which it is usually consumed and present it to a new audience with fresh ears. Bluesman is about that crossroads between the secular and the divine and so, it is only fitting that we pay tribute to it by enjoying a potent mixture of gospel and country blues.”
Simultaneously published in three languages, Bluesman has already shipped well over 10,000 volumes worldwide and has received critical praise from venerable institutions like Publishers’ Weekly, NPR and the Boston Globe. The Bluesman Experience is slated to travel all over Oklahoma with limited engagements in Kansas, Arkansas, Missouri, and Texas through the fall. The show this Saturday begins at 2 PM and will feature a question and answer session as well as a book signing afterwards. Interested parties should call (405) 848-2667 or visit http://www.bluesmanproject.com for more information.
Other Bluesman Experience dates in September- September 25th, 2008-
Full Circle Bookstore
1900 NW Expressway (inside 50 Penn Place)
Oklahoma City, OK
(405) 842-2900
September 27th-
Borders Books and Music
300 Norman Center Ct
Norman, OK
(405) 573-4907
