musicians, black

"Earl "Lil' Choo-Choo" Johnson left home at the age of 10, with only his father's guitar, and stepped into the world of the Delta blues. A guitar prodigy, his music led him to play with blues legends like Robert Johnson, Charley Patton, Son House, Howlin' Wolf, and Muddy Waters. Lil' Choo-Choo's story is a history of the blues, from sharecroppers' shacks on Dockery's Plantation and whiskey-soaked juke joints in Depression-era Mississippi to the swinging clubs of post-war Memphis and Chicago. It encompasses the heyday of Delta blues, the birth of rock and roll, the British invasion, the blues revival of the 1960s, and beyond". -from the publisher.

Discusses Black composers, singers, instrumentalists, and others who have made important contributions to classical music from the eighteenth century to the present.

Contains biographies of eleven African-American and Black musicians.

Contains over 650 brief sketches of singers, songwriters, bands, producers and record companies.