Up the Mississippi
Subtitle: a journey of the blues
By: Eunice Boardman, editor.
Contributors: Boardman, Eunice.; Mississippi Valley Blues Society.
Publisher: Mississippi Valley Blues Society
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Davenport, Iowa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
Subjects: Blues (Music)
Other titles: Journey of the blues
Description: This anthology is intended to be an introduction to the blues, with the accompanying CD providing aural examples of the music and performers discussed in the book.
Table of contents: value: Disc:  Understanding blues music / Hawkeye Herman; value: Good morning blues / Lead Belly; value: Yonder come the blues / Ma Rainey; value: Standing at the crossroads / Robert Johnson; value: Future blues / Willie Brown; value: Match box blues / Blind Lemon Jefferson; value: Mean old bedbug blues / Bessie Smith; value: Walk right in / Cannon's Jug Stompoers; value: St. Louis blues / Albert Ammons; value: Pacific coast blues / Dinah Washington; value: Here come the blues / Wynonie Harris; value: Highway 49 / Big Joe Williams; value: John Henry / Big Bill Broonzy; value: Eagle rock me, baby / Roosevelt Sykes; value: Up and down / Sleepy John Estes; value: When You're a long way from home / Lizzie Miles; value: Eyes full of tears / Honeyboy Edwards; value: Rollin' & tumblin' / Little Walter; value: Sweet home Chicago / Magic Sam; value: Stop breaking down / Junior Wells & Otis Spann; value: I got the blues about my baby / Billy Branch & Bonnie Lee.