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Sweet Bitter Blues: Washington, DC's Homemade Blues
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Sweet Bitter Blues: Washington, DC's Homemade Blues depicts the life and times of harmonica player Phil Wiggins and the unique, vibrant music sce...
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Stormy Monday: The T-Bone Walker Story
PaperbackOriginal price $23.95 - Original price $23.95Original price $23.95$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /The most significant factor in the career of Aaron “T-Bone” Walker was his ability to bridge the worlds of blues and jazz. The guitar artistry of...
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Lightnin' Hopkins: His Life and Blues
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /2011 ARSC Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research for Best History By the time of his death in 1982, Sam “Lightnin’” Hopkins w...
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Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /“The essential history of this distinctly American genre.”—Atlanta Journal-Constitution In this “expertly researched, elegantly written, dispassi...
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The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire
HardcoverOriginal price $43.99 - Original price $43.99Original price $43.99$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /An updated new edition of Ted Gioia's acclaimed compendium of jazz standards, featuring 15 additional selections, hundreds of additional recommen...
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Up Jumped the Devil: The Real Life of Robert Johnson
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Robert Johnson is the subject of the most famous myth about the blues: he allegedly sold his soul at the crossroads in exchange for his incredible ...
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Christmas with Elvis: The Official Guide to the Holidays from the King of Rock 'n' Roll
HardcoverOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Celebrate Christmas with the King of Rock n' Roll For Elvis, Christmas at Graceland was a time for family and friends, a respite from the road and ...
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Arhoolie Records Down Home Music: The Stories and Photographs of Chris Strachwitz
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /A visual storytelling celebration of American roots music in its rich variety through unseen and newly scanned photographs by the founder of the le...
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Deep Inside the Blues: Photographs and Interviews
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00Original price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00Current price $40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Deep Inside the Blues collects thirty-four of Margo Cooper's interviews with blues artists and is illustrated with over 160 of her photographs, man...
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Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' PICK OF 2023The drama of In Cold Blood meets the stylings of a Coen brothers film in this long-lost manuscript from music...
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Blowin' Like Hell
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /From the ghetto clubs of South-Central Los Angeles to International fame, William Clarke will go down as one of the greatest and most innovative b...
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Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The drama of In Cold Blood meets the stylings of a Coen brothers film in this long-lost manuscript from musicologist Robert "Mack" McCormick, whose...
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Mama Said, 'This Boy's Gonna Be Somebody!': The Untold Story of Oklahoma Blues Legend D.C. Minner
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Written by a close friend using recorded interviews with Minner, the assistance of Selby Minner, bandmate and wife, with family, band, and festival...
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Moanin' at Midnight: The Life and Times of Howlin' Wolf
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /The definitive biography of the musical giant who became a titan in the blues pantheon One of the greatest artists the blues ever produced, Howlin...
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Mississippi John Hurt: His Life, His Times, His Blues
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Winner, Best History, 2012 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research When Mississippi J...
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From Asylum to Prison: Deinstitutionalization and the Rise of Mass Incarceration After 1945
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /To many, asylums are a relic of a bygone era. State governments took steps between 1950 and 1990 to minimize the involuntary confinement of people ...
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The Life and Legend of Leadbelly
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Huddie Ledbetter (1889-1949), known to millions of fans simply as Leadbelly, was arguably the most famous black singer in American history. His clo...
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Blues All Around Me: The Autobiography of B. B. King
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"A treasure trove of information...told with real feeling." --Washington Post Book World"Charming...honest...transcendent.... It reads like a warm ...
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I Put a Spell on You: The Autobiography of Nina Simone
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /James Baldwin used to tell Nina Simone, "This is the world you have made for yourself, now you have to live in it." Simone has created for herself ...
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Blues People
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"A must for all who would more knowledgeably appreciate and better comprehend America's most popular music." -- Langston Hughes"The path the slave ...
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The Blues: The Authentic Narrative of My Music and Culture
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"A fresh new perspective that will be a true revolution to readers and will open new lines of discussion on . . . the importance of the city of N...
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Charley Patton: Expanded Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $12.95 - Original price $12.95Original price $12.95$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /The Father of the Delta Blues, Charley Patton (1891–1934) was born and raised around Mississippi's cotton plantations. During the 1920s, he was t...
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Lost Highway: Journeys and Arrivals of American Musicians
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /This masterful explorationof American roots music—country, rockabilly, and the blues—spotlights the artists who created a distinctly American sou...
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Bitten by the Blues: The Alligator Records Story
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /It started with the searing sound of a slide careening up the neck of an electric guitar. In 1970, twenty-three-year-old Bruce Iglauer walked int...
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