Blues Music

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Juke: A Blues Novel
Juke: A Blues Novel 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday 4.28 avg rating — 1,707 ratings
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The Land Where the Blues Began
The Land Where the Blues Began 4.31 avg rating — 850 ratings
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Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues
Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues 4.02 avg rating — 1,471 ratings
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Blues All Around Me: The Autobiography of B.B. King
Blues All Around Me: The Autobiography of B.B. King
by: B.B. King
4.12 avg rating — 937 ratings
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Blues People: Negro Music in White America
Blues People: Negro Music in White America 4.15 avg rating — 2,386 ratings
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Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta
Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta 4.22 avg rating — 1,994 ratings
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Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music
Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music
by: Ted Gioia
4.30 avg rating — 753 ratings
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Friday Night at Honeybee's
Friday Night at Honeybee's 4.26 avg rating — 284 ratings
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Big Road Blues: Tradition And Creativity In The Folk Blues
Big Road Blues: Tradition And Creativity In The Folk Blues really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Moanin' at Midnight: The Life and Times of Howlin' Wolf
Moanin' at Midnight: The Life and Times of Howlin' Wolf 4.22 avg rating — 576 ratings
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Revelation Blind Willie Johnson The Biography.
Revelation Blind Willie Johnson The Biography. 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Spinning Blues into Gold: The Chess Brothers and the Legendary Chess Records
Spinning Blues into Gold: The Chess Brothers and the Legendary Chess Records 4.03 avg rating — 156 ratings
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Woman with Guitar: Memphis Minnie's Blues
Woman with Guitar: Memphis Minnie's Blues 3.85 avg rating — 26 ratings
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What's the Use of Walking If There's a Freight Train Going Your Way? Black Hoboes & Their Songs
What's the Use of Walking If There's a Freight Train Going Your Way? Black Hoboes & Their Songs really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Mother of the Blues: A Study of Ma Rainey
Mother of the Blues: A Study of Ma Rainey 3.95 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Blues: A Very Short Introduction
The Blues: A Very Short Introduction 3.86 avg rating — 265 ratings
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King of the Delta Blues: The Life and Music of Charlie Patton
King of the Delta Blues: The Life and Music of Charlie Patton 3.81 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Preachin' the Blues: The Life & Times of Son House
Preachin' the Blues: The Life & Times of Son House 4.15 avg rating — 145 ratings
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Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s
Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s 3.90 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Taj Mahal: Autobiography of a Bluesman
Taj Mahal: Autobiography of a Bluesman
by: Taj Mahal
3.36 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Between Midnight and Day: The Last Unpublished Blues Archive
Between Midnight and Day: The Last Unpublished Blues Archive 4.29 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Heroes of Blues, Jazz, and Country
Heroes of Blues, Jazz, and Country 4.27 avg rating — 851 ratings
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The Voice of the Delta: Charley (Charlie) Patton and the Mississippi blues traditions, influences, and comparisons : an international symposium
The Voice of the Delta: Charley (Charlie) Patton and the Mississippi blues traditions, influences, and comparisons : an international symposium 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Me and the Devil Blues: The Unreal Life of Robert Johnson, Volume 1
Me and the Devil Blues: The Unreal Life of Robert Johnson, Volume 1 3.82 avg rating — 339 ratings
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Memphis Blues and Jug Bands
Memphis Blues and Jug Bands 3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Bessie Smith: Empress of the Blues
Bessie Smith: Empress of the Blues 4.07 avg rating — 199 ratings
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Learn Blues Accordion A Comprehensive Guide to Mastering the Blues: A Comprehensive Guide to Mastering the Blues
Learn Blues Accordion A Comprehensive Guide to Mastering the Blues: A Comprehensive Guide to Mastering the Blues 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Early Years of Rhythm & Blues
The Early Years of Rhythm & Blues it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Library of Ragtime and Early Blues Piano (Library of Series)
The Library of Ragtime and Early Blues Piano (Library of Series) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Corregidora
Corregidora 3.91 avg rating — 5,074 ratings
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Leavin' Trunk Blues (Nick Travers #2)
Leavin' Trunk Blues (Nick Travers #2) 3.88 avg rating — 513 ratings
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Waiting for Buddy Guy: Chicago Blues at the Crossroads
Waiting for Buddy Guy: Chicago Blues at the Crossroads 4.30 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Blues Faces: A Portrait of the Blues (An Imago Mundi Book)
Blues Faces: A Portrait of the Blues (An Imago Mundi Book) 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Roll
The Roll
by: Joe Hnida
4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Blood and the Blues
The Blood and the Blues 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Images of The Apocalypse in African American Blues and Spirituals: Destruction in this Land
Images of The Apocalypse in African American Blues and Spirituals: Destruction in this Land 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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RL'S Dream
RL'S Dream 3.86 avg rating — 1,276 ratings
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Rambling Blues: The Life & Songs of Charlie Poole
Rambling Blues: The Life & Songs of Charlie Poole 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Reservation Blues
Reservation Blues 3.98 avg rating — 14,114 ratings
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Sweet As The Showers Of Rain (The Bluesmen, Volume II)
Sweet As The Showers Of Rain (The Bluesmen, Volume II) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Blues and the Poetic Spirit
Blues and the Poetic Spirit 3.53 avg rating — 34 ratings
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In Tune: Charley Patton, Jimmie Rodgers, and the Roots of American Music
In Tune: Charley Patton, Jimmie Rodgers, and the Roots of American Music
by: Ben Wynne
4.13 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Can't Be Satisfied
Can't Be Satisfied 4.10 avg rating — 1,117 ratings
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Been Here and Gone
Been Here and Gone really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The History Of The Blues
The History Of The Blues 3.97 avg rating — 279 ratings
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Devil At The Confluence
Devil At The Confluence 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Hand Me My Travelin' Shoes: In Search of Blind Willie McTell
Hand Me My Travelin' Shoes: In Search of Blind Willie McTell 3.95 avg rating — 107 ratings
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Mississippi Hill Country Blues 1967 (American Made Music Series)
Mississippi Hill Country Blues 1967 (American Made Music Series) 4.62 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Blues Line: Blues Lyrics from Leadbelly to Muddy Waters
The Blues Line: Blues Lyrics from Leadbelly to Muddy Waters 4.29 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Big Star Fallin' Mama: Five Women in Black Music
Big Star Fallin' Mama: Five Women in Black Music 3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings
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A Life of Blind Willie McTell
A Life of Blind Willie McTell 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Bluesman
Bluesman 3.73 avg rating — 546 ratings
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Blues with a Feeling
Blues with a Feeling 4.22 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Blues Traveling: The Holy Sites of Delta Blues
Blues Traveling: The Holy Sites of Delta Blues 4.38 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Woman With Guitar: Memphis Minnie's Blues
Woman With Guitar: Memphis Minnie's Blues 3.94 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Hoodoo Blues
Hoodoo Blues 3.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Blacks, Whites, and Blues
Blacks, Whites, and Blues 3.07 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Stagolee Shot Billy
Stagolee Shot Billy 3.73 avg rating — 147 ratings
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The Roots of the Blues : An African Search
The Roots of the Blues : An African Search 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Mojo's Guitar
Mojo's Guitar 3.89 avg rating — 19 ratings
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R. Crumb Draws the Blues
R. Crumb Draws the Blues 4.17 avg rating — 255 ratings
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Big Bill Blues
Big Bill Blues 3.96 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Where Southern Cross the Dog
Where Southern Cross the Dog 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Blues From The Delta
Blues From The Delta 3.92 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Fessor Mojo's Don't Start Me to Talkin'
Fessor Mojo's Don't Start Me to Talkin' really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Blues Off The Record
Blues Off The Record really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Woke Up This Mornin': Poetry of the Blues
Woke Up This Mornin': Poetry of the Blues 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Yonder Come the Blues: The Evolution of a Genre
Yonder Come the Blues: The Evolution of a Genre liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Broadcasting the Blues
Broadcasting the Blues really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Screening The Blues: Aspects Of The Blues Tradition
Screening The Blues: Aspects Of The Blues Tradition 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Best of the Blues: The 101 Essential Blues Albums
The Best of the Blues: The 101 Essential Blues Albums really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Country Blues
The Country Blues 4.05 avg rating — 111 ratings
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Red River Blues: The Blues Tradition in the Southeast
Red River Blues: The Blues Tradition in the Southeast 3.53 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Blues
The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Blues 3.68 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Songsters and Saints: Vocal Traditions on Race Records
Songsters and Saints: Vocal Traditions on Race Records 4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Barrelhouse Blues: Location Recording and the Early Traditions of the Blues
Barrelhouse Blues: Location Recording and the Early Traditions of the Blues 3.56 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues (H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series)
Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues (H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series) 4.15 avg rating — 68 ratings
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The Listener's Guide To The Blues
The Listener's Guide To The Blues 4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Nighthawk Blues
Nighthawk Blues 3.29 avg rating — 38 ratings
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The Spirituals and the Blues
The Spirituals and the Blues 4.26 avg rating — 325 ratings
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Murray Talks Music: Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues
Murray Talks Music: Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues 4.14 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Blues Mandolin Man: The Life and Music of Yank Rachell (American Made Music
Blues Mandolin Man: The Life and Music of Yank Rachell (American Made Music 3.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Listen To The Blues
Listen To The Blues 4.21 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Getting the Blues: What Blues Music Teaches Us about Suffering and Salvation
Getting the Blues: What Blues Music Teaches Us about Suffering and Salvation 3.59 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Early Blues: The First Stars of Blues Guitar
Early Blues: The First Stars of Blues Guitar 3.95 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Blues Guitar: The Men Who Made the Music
Blues Guitar: The Men Who Made the Music 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Rollin' and Tumblin': The Postwar Blues Guitarists
Rollin' and Tumblin': The Postwar Blues Guitarists really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Walking a Blues Road: A Selection of Blues Writing 1956 - 2004
Walking a Blues Road: A Selection of Blues Writing 1956 - 2004 3.83 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Nothing But the Blues: The Music and the Musicians
Nothing But the Blues: The Music and the Musicians 4.33 avg rating — 82 ratings
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In Search of the Blues: A Journey to the Soul of Black Texas (Southwestern Writers Collection Series, Wittliff Collections at Texas State University)
In Search of the Blues: A Journey to the Soul of Black Texas (Southwestern Writers Collection Series, Wittliff Collections at Texas State University) 3.91 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Staging the Blues: From Tent Shows to Tourism
Staging the Blues: From Tent Shows to Tourism 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
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One Man's Blues: The Life and Music of Mose Allison
One Man's Blues: The Life and Music of Mose Allison 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Skip James Blues Collection*
The Skip James Blues Collection* 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Blues Harp
Blues Harp 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Rise of Gospel Blues: The Music of Thomas Andrew Dorsey in the Urban Church
The Rise of Gospel Blues: The Music of Thomas Andrew Dorsey in the Urban Church 3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Long Lost Blues: Popular Blues in America, 1850-1920
Long Lost Blues: Popular Blues in America, 1850-1920 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Mississippi John Hurt: His Life, His Times, His Blues (American Made Music Series)
Mississippi John Hurt: His Life, His Times, His Blues (American Made Music Series) 3.86 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Seems Like Murder Here: Southern Violence and the Blues Tradition
Seems Like Murder Here: Southern Violence and the Blues Tradition 4.14 avg rating — 22 ratings
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W.C. Handy: Father of the Blues
W.C. Handy: Father of the Blues 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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