57 books
—
1 voter
Discover new books on Goodreads
Meet your next favorite book
Blues Books
Showing 1-50 of 1,423
Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as blues)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,068 ratings — published 1981
Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as blues)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,521 ratings — published 2004
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as blues)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,766 ratings — published 1998
Blues People: Negro Music in White America (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as blues)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,479 ratings — published 1963
Can't Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as blues)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,157 ratings — published 2002
The History Of The Blues: The Roots, The Music, The People (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as blues)
avg rating 3.95 — 290 ratings — published 1995
The Land Where the Blues Began (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as blues)
avg rating 4.31 — 872 ratings — published 1993
Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as blues)
avg rating 4.29 — 813 ratings — published 2008
Searching for Robert Johnson (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as blues)
avg rating 3.87 — 766 ratings — published 1989
Brother Robert: Growing Up with Robert Johnson (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as blues)
avg rating 4.15 — 384 ratings — published 2020
When I Left Home: My Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as blues)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,359 ratings — published 2012
The Blues: A Very Short Introduction (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as blues)
avg rating 3.85 — 278 ratings — published 2010
The Devil's Music: A History of the Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as blues)
avg rating 3.92 — 220 ratings — published 1976
The Country Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as blues)
avg rating 4.07 — 115 ratings — published 1959
Moanin' at Midnight: The Life and Times of Howlin' Wolf (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as blues)
avg rating 4.22 — 589 ratings — published 2004
Chasin' That Devil Music: Searching For The Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as blues)
avg rating 3.89 — 120 ratings — published 1998
Big Road Blues: Tradition And Creativity In The Folk Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blues)
avg rating 4.00 — 31 ratings — published 1982
Up Jumped the Devil: The Real Life of Robert Johnson (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as blues)
avg rating 4.19 — 802 ratings — published 2019
Do Not Sell at Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World's Rarest 78rpm Records (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as blues)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,359 ratings — published 2014
The Story of the Blues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as blues)
avg rating 3.99 — 91 ratings — published 1969
Feel Like Going Home (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as blues)
avg rating 4.19 — 509 ratings — published 1971
Stomping The Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as blues)
avg rating 4.08 — 222 ratings — published 1976
Blues & Chaos: The Music Writing of Robert Palmer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as blues)
avg rating 4.15 — 118 ratings — published 2009
The Chitlin' Circuit: And the Road to Rock 'n' Roll (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as blues)
avg rating 3.99 — 511 ratings — published 2011
Blues Fell this Morning: Meaning in the Blues (Canto original series)
by (shelved 6 times as blues)
avg rating 3.83 — 48 ratings — published 1960
Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as blues)
avg rating 3.84 — 43 ratings — published 1988
Father of the Blues: An Autobiography (Da Capo Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as blues)
avg rating 3.70 — 47 ratings — published 1985
Blues From The Delta (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as blues)
avg rating 3.91 — 67 ratings — published 1970
The Big Book of Blues: The Fully Revised and Updated Biographical Encyclopedia (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as blues)
avg rating 4.19 — 32 ratings — published 1994
Bossmen: Bill Monroe & Muddy Waters (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as blues)
avg rating 3.90 — 31 ratings — published 1972
Nothing But the Blues: The Music and the Musicians (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as blues)
avg rating 4.30 — 82 ratings — published 1993
Stevie Ray Vaughan : Caught in the Crossfire (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as blues)
avg rating 4.15 — 714 ratings — published 1993
Heroes of Blues, Jazz, and Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as blues)
avg rating 4.27 — 885 ratings — published 2006
Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as blues)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,382 ratings — published 1986
Boogie Man: The Adventures of John Lee Hooker in the American Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as blues)
avg rating 3.81 — 158 ratings — published 1999
Barrelhouse Words: A Blues Dialect Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as blues)
avg rating 3.84 — 56 ratings — published 2009
Savannah syncopators: African retentions in the blues (Blues paperbacks)
by (shelved 5 times as blues)
avg rating 3.60 — 15 ratings — published
King of the Delta Blues: The Life and Music of Charlie Patton (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as blues)
avg rating 3.76 — 38 ratings — published 1988
I Am the Blues: The Willie Dixon Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as blues)
avg rating 4.17 — 110 ratings — published 1989
Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as blues)
avg rating 3.94 — 252 ratings — published 2023
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as blues)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,810,150 ratings — published 2007
Barrelhouse Blues: Location Recording and the Early Traditions of the Blues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as blues)
avg rating 3.58 — 26 ratings — published 2009
In Search of the Blues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as blues)
avg rating 3.76 — 131 ratings — published 2007
Portrait Of The Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as blues)
avg rating 3.83 — 12 ratings — published 1996
A Blues Life (Music in American Life)
by (shelved 4 times as blues)
avg rating 4.00 — 10 ratings — published 1999
The Blues Line: Blues Lyrics from Leadbelly to Muddy Waters (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as blues)
avg rating 4.31 — 36 ratings — published 1975
Beyond the Crossroads (New Directions in Southern Studies)
by (shelved 4 times as blues)
avg rating 4.00 — 27 ratings — published 2017
White Tears (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as blues)
avg rating 3.67 — 10,597 ratings — published 2017
“A blues harmonica player doesn't just play notes—they tell stories with every breath, bending sorrow into beauty and struggle into soul.”
―
―
“Now listen for your song. Everybody’s got a song. When I used to chase the Trane— John Coltrane that is— he used to tell me, ‘If I know a man’s sound, I know the man.’ Do you hear the melody playing in your mind? Does it move you, nudge you off your seat?”
― Professor Brown Shoes Teaches the Blues
― Professor Brown Shoes Teaches the Blues
