Related Books

A Blues Life
Language: en
Pages: 220
Authors: Henry Townsend
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Through Townsend's easy reminiscences, the guitarist Lonnie Johnson, the pianists Walter Davis and Roosevelt Sykes, and the promoter Jessie Johnson come vividly
I Don't Like the Blues
Language: en
Pages: 206
Authors: B. Brian Foster
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10-08 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

How do you love and not like the same thing at the same time? This was the riddle that met Mississippi writer B. Brian Foster when he returned to his home state
Lightnin' Hopkins
Language: en
Pages: 374
Authors: Alan Govenar
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-05 - Publisher: Chicago Review Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Based on scores of interviews with the artist's relatives, friends, lovers, producers, accompanists, managers, and fans, this brilliant biography reveals a man
Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music
Language: en
Pages: 463
Authors: Ted Gioia
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-11-02 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

“The essential history of this distinctly American genre.”—Atlanta Journal-Constitution In this “expertly researched, elegantly written, dispassionate y
Reincarnation Blues
Language: en
Pages: 372
Authors: Michael Poore
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-08-22 - Publisher: Del Rey

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A wildly imaginative novel about a man who is reincarnated over ten thousand lifetimes to be with his one true love: Death herself. “Tales of gods and men aki