blues musicians

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that profile the lives and careers of over six hundred blues artists, each with a list of essential listening recordings.

Profiles eight country blues and ragtime musicians.

Chronicles the life of Robert Johnson, discussing how he transformed from obscure musician to one of the most important artists in early blues and a founding father of rock and roll; includes a CD with selections of blues music.

Blues guitarist Honeyboy Edwards looks back on his life, telling of his upbringing as a sharecropper's son, his years as a hobo during the Depression, and his travels throughout the country as an intinerant bluesman, playing in the hot towns of Memphis, Chicago, and New Orleans.

Traces the life of the dedicated and talented blues musician, from his birth in the Mississippi Delta in 1925 through the early 1990s.

Over 600 profiles of every important blues artist from Bessie Smith to Koko Taylor including artists from the United Kingdom.

A history of the development of the Blues and its foundation in twentieth-century jazz, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, and hip-hop, as well as its origin in the spirituals sung by African-American slaves.

Autobiography of blues musician B.B. King, telling about his early life in Mississippi and the ups and downs of his long career on the road from the Memphis of the forties to the Moscow of the nineties.

Chapter six in a continuing theatrical saga that explores the African-American experience in the twentieth century, following a small group of friends who have gathered together in Pittsburgh's Hill district in 1948 to mourn the death of local blues guitarist Floyd "Schoolboy" Barton.