Blues Mandolin Man
Subtitle: The Life and Music of Yank Rachell (American Made Music Series)
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: June 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9781578063338
Subjects: Blues musicians; History and criticism; Blues; Black Musicians And Their Music; Rachell, Yank; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Genres & Styles - Blues; Biography/Autobiography; Composers & Musicians - General; Blues (Music); People of Color; United States; African American musicians; Biography
First sentence: Well, in the house when I was growin' up we had them old straw ticks, you know, made out of straw, bed tick.
Description: "Blues Mandolin Man: The Life and Music of Yank Rachell is the first biography of a blues maker who kept "country blues" and jug-band style Alive. Yank Rachell and his mandolin playing style moved every musician lucky enough to hear him perform in the early sixties. When he died in April 1997, he left behind a stack of unanswered requests to tour Europe and to play blues festivals in the United States.

In Blues Mandolin Man: The Life and Music of Yank Rachell, Richard Congress delivers the biography of a family man whose playing inspired and energized the likes of David Honeyboy Edwards, Sleepy John Estes, and Henry Townsend. No other biography discusses the mandolin's influence and role in the blues."--BOOK JACKET.