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Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as blues)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,011 ratings — published 1981
Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as blues)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,487 ratings — published 2004
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as blues)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,728 ratings — published 1998
Blues People: Negro Music in White America (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as blues)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,412 ratings — published 1963
The History Of The Blues: The Roots, The Music, The People (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as blues)
avg rating 3.97 — 282 ratings — published 1995
Can't Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as blues)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,120 ratings — published 2002
The Land Where the Blues Began (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as blues)
avg rating 4.32 — 855 ratings — published 1993
Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as blues)
avg rating 4.30 — 775 ratings — published 2008
Searching for Robert Johnson (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as blues)
avg rating 3.87 — 750 ratings — published 1989
Brother Robert: Growing Up with Robert Johnson (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as blues)
avg rating 4.14 — 370 ratings — published 2020
When I Left Home: My Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as blues)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,301 ratings — published 2012
The Blues: A Very Short Introduction (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as blues)
avg rating 3.86 — 266 ratings — published 2010
Moanin' at Midnight: The Life and Times of Howlin' Wolf (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as blues)
avg rating 4.22 — 577 ratings — published 2004
Chasin' That Devil Music: Searching For The Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as blues)
avg rating 3.92 — 117 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
The Devil's Music: A History of the Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blues)
avg rating 3.92 — 218 ratings — published 1976
The Country Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blues)
avg rating 4.05 — 112 ratings — published 1959
Up Jumped the Devil: The Real Life of Robert Johnson (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as blues)
avg rating 4.20 — 746 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 4.02 — 1,338 ratings — published 2014
The Story of the Blues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as blues)
avg rating 4.00 — 89 ratings — published 1969
Stomping The Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as blues)
avg rating 4.06 — 215 ratings — published 1976
Blues & Chaos: The Music Writing of Robert Palmer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as blues)
avg rating 4.14 — 115 ratings — published 2009
Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as blues)
avg rating 3.90 — 42 ratings — published 1988
Feel Like Going Home (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as blues)
avg rating 4.19 — 501 ratings — published 1971
Blues From The Delta (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as blues)
avg rating 3.92 — 64 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 — 31 ratings — published 1994
Bossmen: Bill Monroe & Muddy Waters (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as blues)
avg rating 3.96 — 27 ratings — published 1972
The World Don't Owe Me Nothing: The Life and Times of Delta Bluesman Honeyboy Edwards (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as blues)
avg rating 4.19 — 123 ratings — published 1997
Nothing But the Blues: The Music and the Musicians (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as blues)
avg rating 4.33 — 82 ratings — published 1993
Stevie Ray Vaughan : Caught in the Crossfire (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as blues)
avg rating 4.14 — 705 ratings — published 1993
Heroes of Blues, Jazz, and Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as blues)
avg rating 4.27 — 859 ratings — published 2006
The Chitlin' Circuit: And the Road to Rock 'n' Roll (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as blues)
avg rating 3.98 — 501 ratings — published 2011
Barrelhouse Words: A Blues Dialect Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as blues)
avg rating 3.84 — 55 ratings — published 2009
Blues Fell this Morning: Meaning in the Blues (Canto original series)
by (shelved 5 times as blues)
avg rating 3.83 — 48 ratings — published 1960
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
Father of the Blues: An Autobiography (Da Capo Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as blues)
avg rating 3.67 — 45 ratings — published 1985
I Am the Blues: The Willie Dixon Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as blues)
avg rating 4.16 — 107 ratings — published 1989
Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as blues)
avg rating 3.96 — 244 ratings — published 2023
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
Portrait Of The Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as blues)
avg rating 3.82 — 11 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
White Tears (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as blues)
avg rating 3.67 — 10,377 ratings — published 2017
Recording the Blues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as blues)
avg rating 4.00 — 15 ratings — published
Memphis Rent Party: The Blues, Rock & Soul in Music's Hometown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as blues)
avg rating 4.13 — 159 ratings — published 2018
Clayton Byrd Goes Underground (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as blues)
avg rating 3.79 — 2,389 ratings — published 2017
Yonder Come the Blues: The Evolution of a Genre (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as blues)
avg rating 3.00 — 2 ratings — published 2001
“....Charles laughingly observed,'Gospel and the blues are really, if you break it down, almost the same thing. It's just a question of whether you're talkin' about a woman or God.”
― Higher Ground: Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, and the Rise and Fall of American Soul
― Higher Ground: Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, and the Rise and Fall of American Soul
“It wasn't…too long ago. But it feels like…years ago…since I felt…the warm hello of the sun.
Lately things seem a little colder, the wind…it seems to get a little bolder. The eagle was flying…now it's on the run.
But then again,
it's all in my mind.
Ever since I lost that glow
I've been feeling so down all the time.
Where's that girl of mine…”
― Cherokee Mist: The Lost Writings
Lately things seem a little colder, the wind…it seems to get a little bolder. The eagle was flying…now it's on the run.
But then again,
it's all in my mind.
Ever since I lost that glow
I've been feeling so down all the time.
Where's that girl of mine…”
― Cherokee Mist: The Lost Writings
