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Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues [With CD (Audio) and DVD] by William Ferris Publisher Comments Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, folklorist William Ferris toured his home state of Mississippi, documenting the voices of African Americans as they spoke about and performed the diverse musical traditions that form the authentic roots of the blues. Now... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover 
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Blues Legacies and Black Feminism by Angela Y. Davis Publisher Comments Davis provides the historical, social, and political contexts with which to reinterpret the performances and lyrics of many famous women blues singers as the articulation of a black, working-class feminist consciousness at odds with mainstream American... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music by Ted Gioia Publisher Comments In this expertly researched, elegantly written, dispassionate yet thoughtful history (Gary Giddins), award-winning author Ted Gioia gives us the rare combination of a tome that is both deeply informative and enjoyable to read (Publishers Weekly, starred... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Hardest Working Man: How James Brown Saved the Soul of America by James Sullivan Publisher Comments The story of the night James Brown kept the peace in the wake of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., and delivered hope with an immortal performance Since James Brownas death in December 2006, the Godfather of Soul has received stirring... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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Blues, Booze, & BBQ by Michael Lloyd (pht) Young Publisher Comments Blues, Booze, & BBQ, the first book by Michael Loyd Young, documents the 150 miles of Highway 61, the famed blacktop road snaking from Memphis, Tennessee down to Greenville, Mississippi. At the halfway point, in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, sits... (read more) Your price: $39.95 New - Hardcover
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The Story of the Supremes by Daryl Easlea Publisher Comments A dazzling celebration of one of the most successful musical groups of the sixties, The Story of the Supremes presents the incredible wardrobe that created the group’s unmistakable style and the billboards, posters, and photographs that made it... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Mister Satan's Apprentice: A Blues Memoir by Adam Gussow Synopsis Mister Satan's Apprentice is the history of one of music's most fascinating collaborations, between Adam Gussow, a young graduate school dropout and harmonica player, and Sterling Mr. Satan Magee, a guitarist and underground blues legend who had... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Little Blues Book by Brian Robertson and Robert Crumb Publisher Comments Illustrations by R. Crumb. A collection of lyrics and lore that captures the very heart and soul of the blues. From Blind Lemon Jefferson to Alberta Hunter, dozens of blues masters offer words of wisdom on subjects including luck (both good and bad... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Between Midnight and Day: The Last Unpublished Blues Archive by Dick Waterman and Peter Guralnick and Bonnie Raitt Publisher Comments Between Midnight and Day: The Last Unpublished Blues Archive celebrates the rich heritage of one of America's greatest cultural legacies, the blues. Dick Waterman has been representing and photographing blues artists for over fifty years and in Between... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $9.97 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Bad Woman Feeling Good: Blues and the Women Who Sang Them by Buzzy Jackson Publisher Comments An exciting lineage of women launched the blues as a powerful, expressive vehicle of emotional liberation. This work combines biography, an appreciation of music, and a sweeping view of American history to illuminate the pivotal role of blues women in a... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Shout, Sister, Shout!: The Untold Story of Rock-And-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe by Gayle Wald Publisher Comments The untold story of the and#64258;amboyant musical prodigy Sister Rosetta Tharpe, America's and#64257;rst rock guitar diva Before "women in rock" became a catchphrase, Rosetta Tharpe proved that women could rock. Shout, Sister, Shout! is... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Record Man : Chess Brothers and the Birth of Rock and Roll (05 Edition) by Rich Cohen Publisher Comments As Vibrantly Written as the music it describes, The Record Men tells the story of how the Russian Jewish immigrant Leonard Chess--along with the other tough-as-nails record men of the 1950s--united with poor black blues singers to transform the music of... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Sweet Soul Music (99 Edition) by Peter Guralnick Publisher Comments SWEET SOUL MUSIC profiles the legendary artists--among them Sam Cook, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, and Al Green--who merged gospel and rhythm and blues. "The best history of '60s soul music. . . . Sooner or later, it is going to be... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Seems Like Murder Here: Southern Violence and the Blues Tradition by University Of Chicago Press Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-326) and index.... (read more) Your price: $32.50 New - Trade Paper
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Sweet Swing Blues: A Year with Wynton Marsalis and His Septet by Wynton Marsalis Synopsis An illustrated year in the life of today's premier jazz trumpeter and composer, Wynton Marsalis. By turns lyrical, down to earth, exalted, and profane, the book itself is structured like the "sweet swing blues" of the title. 180 photos.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $3.63 Used - Trade Paper
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Blues People: Negro Music in White America by Leroi Jones Publisher Comments "The path the slave took to 'citizenship' is what I want to look at. And I make my analogy through the slave citizen's music -- through the music that is most closely associated with him: blues and a later, but parallel development, jazz... [If] the... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Barrelhouse Words: A Blues Dialect Dictionary by Stephen Calt Publisher Comments This fascinating compendium explains the most unusual, obscure, and curious words and expressions from vintage blues music. Utilizing both documentary evidence and invaluable interviews with a number of now-deceased musicians from the 1920s and '30s... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Land Where the Blues Began by Alan Lomax Publisher Comments Set in an era as harsh and fertile as Delta silt, The Land Where the Blues Began reveals how the river of African-American culture overtook its repressive banks — to give us R & B, soul, rock 'n' roll, and the only purely American art form, the... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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I Got Thunder: Black Women Songwriters and Their Craft by Lashonda Ka Barnett Publisher Comments In this often-fascinating, nostalgic, and thoroughly moving collection of 40 interviews, author LaShonda Barnett offers a rare glimpse into the careers of the world's prominent black women performing singers and songwriters. Making an unprecedented... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Michael Bloomfield: If You Love These Blues with CD (Audio) by Jan Mark Wolkin Synopsis Drawing on over 80 interviews with family, friends, and colleagues, music journalist Wolkin and longtime fan and musician Keenom recreate the life of the blues musician who died in 1981 at age 37. He was an influential guitarist of the 1960s who achieved... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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