Title: Devil sent the rain : music and writing in desperate America /
Authors: Piazza, Tom, 1955-
Publisher: Harper Perennial,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Popular music United States History and criticism; Musicians Louisiana New Orleans.; Hurricane Katrina, 2005 Personal narratives.; Musical criticism United States.
Abstract: Profiles such cultural icons as Charlie Chan, Norman Mailer, and Bob Dylan, and presents a new collection of essays and writings on music, film, literature, and politics that explore the American landscape and cultural traditions.
Contents: Jimmie Rodgers died for your sins -- A light went on and he sang -- The blues : a musical journey -- Sacred and profane in Clarksdale -- True adventures with the King of Bluegrass -- Jimmy Martin, RIP -- The lost man of rock and roll -- Elegy for Carl Perkins -- Trust the song -- Bob Dylan, 1997 -- Leaving the farm -- Gotta serve somebody -- World gone wrong again -- Charlie Chan in New Orleans! -- Blues streak -- Going back to New Orleans -- Seer and seen : an online chat about New Orleans -- An exchange of letters about Why New Orleans matters -- Other people's houses -- Incontinental drift -- Citizen Mailer -- Norman Mailer : a remembrance -- An interview with Tom Piazza on the future of the book -- The devil and Gustave Flaubert -- Note in a bottle.