History of the Blues: The Roots, the Music, the People
Subtitle: From Charley Patton to Robert Cray
Publisher: Hyperion
Published: February 15, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780786881246
Subjects: Music; Genres & Styles - Soul & R&B; Genres & Styles - Blues; Music / Blues; History & Criticism - General; Blues (Music); History and criticism
First sentence: Such past tenants as Ike Turner, Sonny Boy Williamson, Robert Nighthawk, and John Lee Hooker notwithstanding, the gentleman in question was probably the most illustrious ever to bed down at the Riverside Hotel, across from the public elementary school on Sunflower Avenue, in Clarksdale, Mississippi.