| Partial contents |
Part one. The Mississippi delta bluesmen. Charley Patton (1891-1934): pony blues -- Eddie "Son" House (1902-1988): preachin' the blues -- Skip James (1903-1969): I'm so glad -- Big Joe Williams (1903-1982): poor Joe's blues -- Robert Johnson (1911-1938): at the crossroads -- Robert Jr. Lockwood (1915-): the master's apprentice -- Johnny Shines (1915-1992): a traveling companion -- John Lee Hooker (1917-): boogie child -- Albert King (1923-1992): born under a blues sign -- B. B. King (1925-): the little blues boy -- Part two. The Chicago blues school. Big Bill Broonzy (1893-1958): key to the highway -- Tampa Red (1904-1981): the guitar wizard -- John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson (1914-1948): the bluebird blues -- Muddy Waters (1915-1983): catfish blues -- Willie Dixon (1915-1992): the background man -- Howlin' Wolf (1910-1976): growlin' the blues -- Elmore James (1918-1963): the broomduster -- Sonny Boy Williamson II (1910-1965): one way out blues -- Jimmy Reed (1925-1976): the sweet blues -- Little Walter (1930-1968): the Mississippi saxophone -- Otis Spann (1930-1970): a blues story -- Otis Rush (1934-): double trouble blues -- Buddy Guy (1936-): the first time I met the blues -- Magic Sam (1937-1969): West side blues -- Part three. The Texas blues tradition. Blind Lemon Jefferson (1897-1929): the blues comet -- Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter (1889-1949): 'lectric chair blues -- Aaron T-Bone Walker (1910-1975): stormy Monday blues -- Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins (1912-1985): Lightnin' strikes -- Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown (1924-): Gatemouth's blues -- Albert Collins (1932-1993): the iceman cometh -- Freddie King (1935-1976): a link in the chain -- Johnny Copeland (1937-1997): the fire maker -- Part four. Women of the blues. Ma Rainey (1886-1939): mother of the blues -- Bessie Smith (1894-1939): empress of the blues -- Ida Cox (1896-1967): raisin' Cain -- Sippie Wallace (1898-1986): Special delivery blues -- Victoria Spivey (1906-1976): moanin' the blues -- Willie Mae Thornton (1926-1984): hound dog blues -- Koko Taylor (1935-): I got what it takes -- Etta James (1938-): the messenger's voice -- Part five. Blues outside the delta. Lonnie Johnson (1894-1970): Mr. Johnson's blues -- Blind Willie McTell (1901-1959): dean of Atlanta blues -- Pete Johnson (1904-1967): a boogie-woogie king -- Roosevelt Sykes (1906-1984): the honeydripper blues -- Blind Boy Fuller (1907-1941): rattlesnakin' daddy blues -- Big Joe Turner (1911-1985): shoutin' the blues -- Sonny Terry (1911-1986) and Brownie McGhee (1915-1996): East coast blues duo -- Professor Longhair (1918-1980): New Orleans house party -- John Mayall (1934-): the blues professor -- Appendix. Recordings by three or more blues singers. |
| Abstract |
Profiles the lives and musical careers of fifty blues singers born before 1940. |
| Local note | Little-319920--305131028435Z |
| Local note | Little-319920--305131028435Z |
| Bibliography note | Includes discographies, bibliographical references (pages 279-283), and index. |
| LCCN | 99016594 |
| ISBN | 0786406062 (sewn softcover : alk. paper) |
