Blues


Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta
Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
Blues People: Negro Music in White America
Can't Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters
The History Of The Blues: The Roots, The Music, The People
The Land Where the Blues Began
Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music
Searching for Robert Johnson
Brother Robert: Growing Up with Robert Johnson
When I Left Home: My Story
The Blues: A Very Short Introduction
The Devil's Music: A History of the Blues
The Country Blues
Moanin' at Midnight: The Life and Times of Howlin' Wolf
Watchmen by Alan MooreThe Blue Girl by Charles de LintThe Spellshop by Sarah Beth DurstThe Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele RichardsonThe Blue Dwarf by Percy Bolingbroke Saint John
Blue Characters
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No One Here Gets Out Alive by Jerry HopkinsThe Dirt by Tommy LeeThe Heroin Diaries by Nikki SixxLife by Keith RichardsSlash by Slash
Best Books on Rock and Roll
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Billie Holiday by John F. SzwedCelebrating Bird by Gary GiddinsDuke Ellington's America by Harvey G. CohenMusic is My Mistress by Duke EllingtonMr B by Cary Ginell
JAZZLIVES
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Richelle Mead
What were good and evil, really, but stupid categories? Stupid categories that restricted people and punished or rewarded them based on how they responded to their own natures, natures they really didn't have any way to control. ...more
Richelle Mead, Succubus Blues

Jimi Hendrix
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… ...more
Jimi Hendrix, Cherokee Mist: The Lost Writings

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