"... draws on extensive fieldwork, archival research, interviews with living musicians, and first-person accounts to present a revealing narrative of the blues and the musicians who made them"--Jacket.
Details
ISBN: 9780393337501 tr. pbk
Physical Description:xiii, 449 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.print
Edition:1st ed.
Publisher:New York : W.W. Norton, c2008.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: The blues and the old kingdoms -- Where the southern cross the dog -- Dockery's plantation -- Parchman prison -- Hard time killin' floor -- Hellhound on my trail -- I'm a rolling stone -- Hooker's boogie -- Smokestack Lightnin' -- Riding with the King -- The blues revival.