num_pages: 404
description: The story of the first white kid to fall in love with black culture: Mezz Mezzrow was blowing horn in reform schools, brothels and honky-tonks, dealing pot in the clubs and arcades, and getting drawn into the captivating subculture of the blues long before Mick Jagger started to paint it black.
language: English
title: Really the Blues
titlecomplete: Really the Blues
genres: Jazz, 20th Century, History, Biography, Memoir, Autobiography, Americana, Music, Biography Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 505
publisher: Canongate Books Ltd