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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 — 1,522 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 4.28 — 1,767 ratings — published 1998
Blues People: Negro Music in White America (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as blues)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,487 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 — 1,158 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 — 873 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 — 1,362 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 3.93 — 221 ratings — published 1976
The Country Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as blues)
avg rating 4.07 — 116 ratings — published 1959
Moanin' at Midnight: The Life and Times of Howlin' Wolf (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as blues)
avg rating 4.22 — 590 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 — 804 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 — 512 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 — 884 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 3.82 — 159 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 — 253 ratings — published 2023
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as blues)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,815,716 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 — 10,608 ratings — published 2017
“For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.”
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“You see, there's some blues for folks ain't never had a thing, and that's a sad blues ... but the saddest kind of blues is for them that's had everything they ever wanted and has lost it, and knows it won't come back no more. Ain't no sufferin' in this world worse than that; and that's the blue we call 'I Had It But It's All Gone Now.”
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