blues music

Feeling most alive when he's playing the blues with his grandfather, Clayton is devastated when his grandfather dies and his mother forbids him from playing music, losses that compel him to run away and join bluesmen on the road.

Clayton is forbidden by his mother from playing the blues after his grandfather dies and runs away to the subways to join a band.

Contains blues lyrics that chronicle the history of the African-American experience, and includes information about the development of blues music.

Chicago record-company executive Leonard Chess makes a name for his company, Chess Records, and the new talent he signs, including Etta James, Chuck Berry, and Muddy Waters, while the musicians deal with fame, sex, drugs, race issues, and violence during the 1950s and 1960s.

To escape an abusive master, a junkyard dog named Flats runs away and makes a name for himself from Mississippi to New York City playing blues on his guitar.

"Unicorn and Mule want to start a cool blues group, but Unicorn decides she gets to make all the rules"--Provided by publisher.

Feeling most alive when he's playing the blues with his grandfather, Clayton is devastated when his grandfather dies and his mother forbids him from playing music, losses that compel him to run away and join bluesmen on the road.

BB Wolf, a farmer and family man who fancies himself a blues musician by night, is forced into action when Mr. Littlepig tries to use a legal technicality to take his land.

Contains a CD of original field recordings and a DVD of original film along with over twenty interviews and narratives about Mississippi blues music in the American South.