Chasin' That Devil Music Searching for the Blues

Name: Chasin' That Devil Music Searching for the Blues
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ISBN: 9780879305529

ISBN-10: 0879305525

ISBN-13: 9780879305529

Edition: 1998

Authors: Gayle Dean Wardlow, Edward Komara

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'Chasin' That Devil Music - Searching for the Blues' is the fruit of research into the birth of the blues by a blues scholar who has researched the artists on old 78 RPM records to uncover their stories along with rare interviews and songs which are on the CD included with the book.

Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Publication date: 8/1/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 290
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Foreword


Editor's Introduction


Prologue: King Solomon Hill



Initial Inquiries and Encounters


Knocking on Doors for 78s: Buying Race Records in the South


The Immortal Charlie Patton


Country Blues and Gospel Pioneers


Got Four, Five Puppies, One Little Shaggy Hound


A Quick Ramble...


Six Who Made Recorded History



Tips, Leads, and Documents


The Black Birds of Paradise


Down at the Depot: The Story of John Lee


Searching for the Robert Johnson Death Certificate


Robert Johnson: New Details on the Death of a Bluesman


Patton's Murder - Whitewash? Or Hogwash?


Bukka White: From Aberdeen to Parchman



Witnesses


Ledell Johnson Remembers His Brother, Tommy


Luther and Percy: The Huff Brothers


Highway 80 Blues


Garfield Akers and Joe Callicott: From the Hernando Cotton Fields



H.C. Speir


Legends of the Lost (The Story of Henry Speir)


Godfather of Delta Blues: H.C. Speir



Retrospectives


Reverend D.C. Rice - Gospel Singer


Canton, Mis'sippi Breakdown


He's Devil of a Joe


Can't Tell My Future: The Mystery of Willie Brown


Blind Roosevelt Graves (1909-1962)


Stop, Look, and Listen at the Cross Road


Epilogue: One Last Walk up King Solomon Hill


Afterword


References


List of 78 rpm Record Issues Cited


Index of 78s


List of Interviews Cited


Reissues


Index of Names


CD Liner Notes


About the Author and Editor