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Lead Belly : A Life In Pictures

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edited by Tiny Robinson and John Reynolds with introduction by Tom Waits ; poems by Tyehimba Jess and foreword by Glenn O’BrienPublication Details
Book1st edSteidl2008Description
The influential Louisiana bluesman, Lead Belly, wrote and performed some of the best-loved songs of the twentieth century, including “The Midnight Special,” “Rock Island Line” and his signature song, “Goodnight, Irene,” which became an international hit in 1950, eight months after his death. Lead Belly: A Life in Pictures is a treasure trove of rare, unpublished photographs, news clippings, concert programs, personal correspondence (including letters from Woody Guthrie), record albums, awards and other memorabilia retrieved only recently from a basement trunk in New York. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS OVERSIZE (UPPER) ML420.L277 L37 2008 AVAILABLE
The B.B. King Treasures : Photos, Mementos & Music From B.B. King’s Collection

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B.B. King with Dick Waterman ; introduction by Charles SawyerPublication Details
Book1st edBulfinch Press2005Description
An intimate portrait of a living legend, the foremost blues singer and guitarist of our time, complete with an audio CD featuring unreleased music and interviews.In 1947, with two and a half dollars in his pocket and his guitar on his back, Riley B. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) ML420.K473 A3 2005 AVAILABLE
Moanin’ At Midnight : The Life And Times Of Howlin’ Wolf

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James Segrest and Mark HoffmanPublication Details
Book1st edPantheon Books2004Description
He began his career playing and singing with the first Delta blues stars for two decades in perilous juke joints. roll in Memphis, where Sam Phillips?who also discovered Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and Jerry Lee Lewis?called Wolf his ?greatest discovery.? He helped develop the sound of electric blues and vied with rival Muddy Waters for the title of king of Chicago blues. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) ML420.H72 S44 2004 AVAILABLE
Can’t Be Satisfied : The Life And Times Of Muddy Waters

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Robert Gordon ; foreward by Keith RichardsPublication Details
Book1st edLittle, Brown2002Description
Combining the most extensive research and interviews ever done on Muddy with a writing style as rich, poetic, and powerful as the music he writes about, Gordon transports us: We are alongside Muddy in the cotton fields as he is discovered by Alan Lomax; (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) ML420.M748 G67 2002 AVAILABLE
Boogie Man : The Adventures Of John Lee Hooker In The American Twentieth Century

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Charles Shaar MurrayPublication Details
Book1st edSt. Martin’s Press2000Description
Acclaimed writer Charles Shaar Murray’s Boogie Man is the authorized and authoritative biography of an extraordinary musician. Murray helps Hooker set the record straight, disentangling the myths and legends from truths so rock-ribbed that we understand, as if for the first time, why they have provided the source for a lifetime of unforgettable sound.Murray weaves together Hooker’s life and music to reveal their indissoluble bonds. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) ML420.H635 M87 2000 AVAILABLE
The Blues Singers : Ten Who Rocked The World

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Julius Lester ; illustrated by Lisa CohenPublication Details
Book1st edJump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children2001Description
Here in the voice of a grandfather passing on a legacy to a younger generation, renowned author Julius Lester introduces ten of the hottest black blues singers of our time. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS OVER CHILD LIT (LOWER) 781.64 L642b AVAILABLE
The Blues Is A Feeling : Voices & Visions Of African- American Blues Musicians

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photographs & interviews by James Fraher ; with an introduction by William H. Wiggins, JrPublication Details
Book1st hardback edFace to Face Books1998Description
The Blues is a Feeling is a book for followers of blues music, photographic book collectors, and readers interested in African-American studies in music and culture. Included in the book are photographs and quotes from Buddy Guy, Koko Taylor, Sunnyland Slim, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, Willie Kent, Junior Kimbrough and many more of the African-American men and women who have made the blues one of America’s greatest musical traditions. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) ML87 .F73 1998 AVAILABLE
The World Don’t Owe Me Nothing : The Life And Times Of Delta Bluesman Honeyboy Edwards

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David Honeyboy Edwards ; as told to Janis Martinson and Michael Robert FrankPublication Details
BookChicago Review Press1997Description
From the son of a sharecropper to an itinerant bluesman, Honeyboy?s stories of good friends Charlie Patton, Big Walter Horton, Little Walter Jacobs, and Robert Johnson are a godsend to blues fans. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) ML420.E28 A3 1997 c.2 AVAILABLE
Blues All Around Me : The Autobiography Of B.B. King

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B.B. King with David RitzPublication Details
Book1st edAvon Books1996Description
From the rural poverty of the Mississippi Delta to his celebrated position as the worlds leading blues musician, B.B. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) ML420.K473 A3 1996 AVAILABLE
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