Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Singers of the blues	Frank Surge	Brief biographies of seventeen singers and musicians who helped develop the blues style and became legendary performers during their lifetime.	OL162284W
Contemporary musicians	Tracie Ratiner	Provides biographical information on important figures in today's musical arena, covering artists working in all genres of modern music, including rock, jazz, pop, rap, rhythm and blues, folk, New Ag…	OL16985575W
The life and legend of Leadbelly	Charles K. Wolfe	wrong link. this is a michael jackson book	OL1723133W
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
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
Blues from the Delta	William R. Ferris	The Mississippi Delta is the birthplace of the blues. Stretching from Vicksburg, Mississippi to Memphis, Tennessee, the Delta was transformed in the nineteenth century from an undeveloped "island" of…	OL1918781W
Don't start me talkin'	Tom Williams	"Don't Start Me Talkin' is a comedic road novel about Brother Ben, the only remaining True Delta Bluesman, playing his final North American tour. Set in contemporary society, Brother Ben's protege Si…	OL19975868W
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
Blues for dummies	Lonnie Brooks	An introduction and overview of the blues; includes an extensive dictionary of blues artists.	OL2035050W
Wichita blues	Patrick Joseph O'Connor	This work begins with a general overview of the national phenomena of the blues, and moves quickly to Wichita Black history. There are lengthy interviews with African American musicians, gamblers, a…	OL2290684W
Nick's blues	John Harvey	"Four days after Nick Harman's seventh birthday, his father climbed onto a bridge high above four lanes of traffic and threw himself to his death... On his sixteenth birthday, his mother gives him a …	OL24288682W
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
The Blues	Tony Russell	The Blues" traces the roots of this indigenous American music from its origins in the South through its great popularity throughout the U.S. and around the world. Includes an A-Z directory of blues m…	OL2763004W
"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
Shadow ball	Peter M. Rutkoff	"In the summer of 1919 three men (two white, one black) decide that the Chicago White Sox will be the first major league team in the twentieth century to sign a black player to a major league contrac…	OL5103982W
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
Blues with a Feeling	Tony Glover	"Blues with a Feeling explores the life, times, and musical creations of a founder of the Chicago Blues style. Little Walter revolutionized blues harmonica playing, and is generally recognized as the…	OL6347221W
Children of the Blues	Art Tipaldi	"This book journeys across America to explore the storied generation of new blues musicians: the biological and spiritual children fathered and mentored by the masters of the blues. Stoking the '60s …	OL8563322W
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
Midnight Son	Timothy Kennedy	Tributes to blues singer and guitarist John Lee Hooker.	OL9838185W