Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The Down Home guide to the blues	Frank Scott	Summary, Adiscographical guide to more than 3,000 blues and gospel LPs, CDs, and cassettes with information on the featured artists, and the quality and availability of the recordings.	OL13501574W
Louisiana music	Rick Koster	"A journey from R&B to zydeco, jazz to country, blues to gospel, Cajun music to swamp pop to Carnival music and beyond."	OL15951062W
Creating jazz counterpoint	Vic Hobson	A full study of Buddy Bolden and Bunk Johnson confirming their roles in the real blues roots of New Orleans jazz.	OL17136418W
Early blues	Jas Obrecht	"Since the early 1900s, blues and the guitar have traveled side by side. This book tells the story of their pairing from the first reported sightings of blues musicians, to the rise of nationally kno…	OL17732660W
Blues lessons	Robert Hellenga	"Growing up on his family's orchards in Appleton, Michigan, in the 1950s, Martin Dijksterhuis finds everything he needs in his extended family and in the land itself - in the reassuring routines of g…	OL1843680W
Texas blues	Alan B. Govenar	"Beginning in East Texas and journeying to the hot, dusty streets of Dakar, Senegal, Govenar traces the earliest roots of the music that became known as blues in the 1890s. Through a critical examina…	OL1891271W
Big Mama Thornton	Michael Spörke	"'You ain't nothing but a hound dog' ... with these words shouted into the microphone she will always be remembered: Big Mama Thornton. Who is this woman who sang the megahit 'Hound dog' before Elvis…	OL19986957W
W.C. Handy	L. S. Summer	A biography of African-American bandleader and composer W.C. Handy, known as the "Father of the Blues," discussing his childhood as the son of religious parents, his early love for music, and his rol…	OL20517529W
Improvising Blues Piano	Tim Richards	262p. ; 31cm	OL2232305W
Blues & gospel records, 1902-1943	Robert M. W. Dixon	The Best You Can Get !!! ALL information about Blues & Gospel recordings 1902 - 1943	OL2426434W
In search of the blues	Marybeth Hamilton	A revisionist account which claims that, archaic and primeval though the music may sound, “Delta blues” emerged in the late twentieth century, the culmination of a longstanding white fascination with…	OL2641772W
This house on fire	Craig Awmiller	Gives a history of blues music from its origins in the 1930s to the present day, with discussions of its African roots and its influence on other music.	OL2984683W
Tiny's hat	Ann Grifalconi	A young girl who misses her father, a traveling blues musician, lifts her own spirits by wearing his hat and singing his songs. Inspired by the childhood of Billie Holiday.	OL3341940W
Cleveland Lee's Beale Street Band	A. R. Flowers	Little Cleveland Lee wants to play the trumpet with his big sister's high school marching band, but they just laugh at him until an old bluesman helps them understand what it takes to be a musician.	OL3509563W
"Sounds so good to me"	Barry Lee Pearson	Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.	OL4791713W
Roots and blues	Arnold Adoff	Lyrical text explores how the blues have been part of everyday life throughout history, from its origins in the sounds of the earth, through slaves' voices singing of freedom, to today's greatest per…	OL49846W
The Memphis blues again	Ernest C. Withers	"Through the photographs of Ernest C. Withers we travel the decades down Beale Street, the main street of the Memphis music scene, and find ourselves on a journey into the heart and soul of America. …	OL543637W
Walking blues	Tim Parrish	"Who or what is an American? Many scholars have recently argued that in a country of such vast cultural and ethnic diversity as the United States it is not useful or even possible to talk of a single…	OL7797918W
The middle-child blues	Kristyn Crow	A boy named Lee sings about all the miserable aspects of being a middle child.	OL9302405W
Me and the Devil Blues 1	Akira Hiramoto	Reimaginging of the life of blues musician Robert Johnson. Cf. Vol. [1], p. [4] of cover. 1.	OL9466744W