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Blues Books
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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 — 2,041 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 — 1,506 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 — 1,752 ratings — published 1998
Blues People: Negro Music in White America (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as blues)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,443 ratings — published 1963
Can't Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as blues)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,141 ratings — published 2002
The History Of The Blues: The Roots, The Music, The People (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as blues)
avg rating 3.96 — 286 ratings — published 1995
The Land Where the Blues Began (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as blues)
avg rating 4.31 — 864 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 — 793 ratings — published 2008
Searching for Robert Johnson (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as blues)
avg rating 3.88 — 756 ratings — published 1989
Brother Robert: Growing Up with Robert Johnson (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as blues)
avg rating 4.13 — 379 ratings — published 2020
When I Left Home: My Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as blues)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,326 ratings — published 2012
The Blues: A Very Short Introduction (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as blues)
avg rating 3.84 — 270 ratings — published 2010
Moanin' at Midnight: The Life and Times of Howlin' Wolf (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as blues)
avg rating 4.22 — 582 ratings — published 2004
Chasin' That Devil Music: Searching For The Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as blues)
avg rating 3.91 — 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
The Devil's Music: A History of the Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blues)
avg rating 3.92 — 220 ratings — published 1976
The Country Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as blues)
avg rating 4.07 — 115 ratings — published 1959
Up Jumped the Devil: The Real Life of Robert Johnson (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as blues)
avg rating 4.19 — 767 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 — 1,353 ratings — published 2014
The Story of the Blues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as blues)
avg rating 4.01 — 90 ratings — published 1969
Feel Like Going Home (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as blues)
avg rating 4.19 — 507 ratings — published 1971
Stomping The Blues (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as blues)
avg rating 4.06 — 217 ratings — published 1976
Blues & Chaos: The Music Writing of Robert Palmer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as blues)
avg rating 4.14 — 117 ratings — published 2009
Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as blues)
avg rating 3.88 — 42 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 3.92 — 66 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 3.90 — 30 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 — 126 ratings — published 1997
Nothing But the Blues: The Music and the Musicians (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as blues)
avg rating 4.30 — 81 ratings — published 1993
Stevie Ray Vaughan : Caught in the Crossfire (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as blues)
avg rating 4.14 — 711 ratings — published 1993
Heroes of Blues, Jazz, and Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as blues)
avg rating 4.28 — 870 ratings — published 2006
Boogie Man: The Adventures of John Lee Hooker in the American Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as blues)
avg rating 3.84 — 153 ratings — published 1999
The Chitlin' Circuit: And the Road to Rock 'n' Roll (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as blues)
avg rating 3.97 — 505 ratings — published 2011
Barrelhouse Words: A Blues Dialect Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as blues)
avg rating 3.84 — 56 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
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 — 246 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
In Search of the Blues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as blues)
avg rating 3.76 — 132 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 — 26 ratings — published 2017
White Tears (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as blues)
avg rating 3.67 — 10,482 ratings — published 2017
Recording the Blues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as blues)
avg rating 3.94 — 17 ratings — published
“Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever i find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet... I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“To write a blues song
is to regiment riots
and pluck gems from graves.”
― The Essential Etheridge Knight
is to regiment riots
and pluck gems from graves.”
― The Essential Etheridge Knight
