Preachin' the Blues: The Life and Times of Son House
"Beaumont's work shines especially in his depiction of House's nonrecording years... the definitive portrait of this unjustly neglected lion of American Music." --Library Journal(starred review)"Beaumont offers vivid portraits of the pre-WWII blues scene and the mid-1960s efforts of white ethnomusicologists to rediscover and promote blues singers."--Alan Moores,Booklist"Daniel Beaumont, who teaches Arabic language and literature at the University of Rochester, has produced an eloquent study of House's life and travails." --Benjamin Ivry,Star-Ledger"Preachin' the Bluesachieves what any music biographer most aspires to: It makes a reader want to seek out the music it describes. And even in an iTunes age, when Son House'sLevee Camp Moancan be found with a click instead of a drive to Rochester, it's still a journey with rich rewards." --Charles R. Cross,The Seattle Times