Blues: An Anthology 
Subtitle: Complete Words and Music of 53 Great Songs (Da Capo Paperback)
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: September 1990
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780306804113
Subjects: Blues; Jazz; Music/Songbooks; Music; USA; Composers & Musicians - Country & Folk; Genres & Styles - Soul & R&B; Genres & Styles - Blues; Blues (Music); History and criticism; Texts; To 1931
First sentence: THE blues sprang up, probably within the last quarter-century, among illiterate and more or less despised classes of Southern Negroes: barroom pianists, careless nomadic laborers, watchers of incoming trains and steamboats, street-corner guitar players, strumpets and outcasts.