Legends of the blues
By: William Stout
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9781419706868
Subjects: Musicians; Biography; Blues (Music); Portraits; History and criticism; Caricatures and cartoons; Blues musicians
Notes: Companion CD contains 12 tracks of recordings by six of the musicians profiled in the text (Cow Cow Davenport; Mississippi Fred McDowell; Robert Nighthawk; Bukka White; Robert Wilkins; Big Joe Williams) and 2 bonus tracks (Blind Willie McTell; Buddy Moss).

"Introduction / by Ed Leimbacher": pages 8-11; Discovering the blues": pages 12-15.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-221).
Table of contents: title: Albert Ammons; title: Kokomo Arnold; title: Fred Below; title: Chuck Berry; title: Big Maceo; title: Big Maybelle; title: Lucille Bogan; title: Eddie Boyd; title: Tiny Bradshaw; title: Charles Brown; title: Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown; title: Roy Brown; title: Gus Cannon; title: Ida Cox; title: Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup; title: Cow Cow Davenport; title: Walter Davis; title: Bo Diddley; title: Willie Dixon; title: "Georgia Tom" Dorsey; title: Champion Jack Dupree; title: Blind Boy Fuller; title: Jesse Fuller; title: Lowell Fulson; title: Jazz Gillum; title: Guitar Slim; title: Slim Harpo; title: Wynonie Harris; title: Screamin' Jay Hawkins; title: Rosa Henderson; title: Bertha "Chippie" Hill; title: Billie Holiday; title: Earl Hooker; title: John Lee Hooker; title: Lightnin' Hopkins; title: Walter Horton; title: Howlin' Wolf; title: Helen Humes; title: Alberta Hunter; title: Elmore James; title: Skip James; title: Frankie "Half Pint" Jaxon; title: Lonnie Johnson; title: Pete Johnson; title: Robert Johnson; title: Blind Willie Johnson; title: Louis Jordan; title: Albert King; title: B.B. King; title: Lead Belly; title: J.B. Lenoir; title: Meade Lux Lewis; title: Smiley Lewis; title: Lightnin' Slim; title: Little Walter; title: Lonesome Sundown; title: Willie Mabon; title: Sara Martin; title: Percy Mayfield; title: Papa Charlie McCoy; title: Kansas Joe McCoy; title: Jimmy McCracklin; title: Mississippi Fred McDowell; title: Memphis Slim; title: Amos Milburn; title: Little Brother Montgomery; title: Hambone Willie Newbern; title: Robert Nighthawk; title: Johnny Otis; title: Robert Petway; title: Ma Rainey; title: Jimmy Reed; title: Blind Joe Reynolds; title: Jimmy Rogers; title: Bessie Smith; title: Clara Smith; title: Clarence "Pine Top" Smith; title: Victoria Spivey; title: Sunnyland Slim; title: Tampa Red; title: Arthur "Montana" Taylor; title: Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee; title: Henry Thomas; title: Big Mama Thornton; title: Bessie Tucker; title: Big Joe Turner; title: T-Bone Walker; title: Sippie Wallace; title: Washboard Sam; title: Dinah Washington; title: Ethel Waters; title: Muddy Waters; title: Bukka White; title: Reverend Robert Wilkins; title: Big Joe Williams; title: Robert Pete Williams; title: Sonny Boy Williamson I; title: Sonny Boy Williamson II; title: Jimmy Witherspoon; title: Jimmy Yancey.