Blues

With this shocking tell-all, revealing the all-true, 100% fake secrets about musics biggest names, Jon Glasera writer for Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and the creator and star of …

From Music City to the Home of the Blues, Frommer’s Nashville and Memphis has everything you need for a tuneful, tasty, and enriching trip to these Tennessee titans of American …

A major figure in American blues and folk music, Big Bill Broonzy (1903-1958) left his Arkansas Delta home after World War I, headed north, and became the leading Chicago bluesman …

'A masterpiece, as fresh and shocking as if it were written yesterday' Craig Brown"e;I've been told that no one sings the word 'hunger' like I do. Or the word …

Miles Davis, Gil Evans, Dizzy Gillespie, Jon Hendricks, Max Roach, Betty Carter, Jackie McLean, Don Cherry, Sonny Rollins, McCoy Tyner, Archie Shepp, Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams, …

Literacy in a Long Blues Note: Black Women’s Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries traces the evolution of Black women’s literacy practices from …

This book provides a sequel to Robert Ford's comprehensive reference work A Blues Bibliography, the second edition of which was published in 2007. Bringing Ford's bibliography of …

It was none other than Louis Armstrong who said, "e;These people who make the restrictions, they don't know nothing about music. It's no crime for cats of any color to get …

This definitive, illustrated biography explores the life and career of the rock music legend with photographs, posters, and other ephemera. Every music critic to rank the …

**As featured on Barack Obama's Summer 2022 Reading List**Winner of the Gordon Burn PrizeWinner of the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in NonfictionFinalist for the …