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| Preface | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Writing About the Blues: The Process | |
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| An Introductory Note | |
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| A Century of the Blues | |
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| "The St. Louis Blues" | |
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| "We Wear the Mask" | |
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| "Stones in My Passway" | |
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| "Dream Boogie" | |
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| "You Know I Love You" | |
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| "Prisoner's Talking Blues" | |
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| Feel Like Going Home | |
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| Son House: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning | |
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| "Hellhound on My Trail" | |
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| The Blues Avant-Garde | |
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| The Levee-Camp Holler | |
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| Muddy Waters: August 31, 1941 | |
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| A Riff on Reading Sterling Plumpp's Poetry | |
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| Thank God for Robert Johnson | |
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| Howlin' Wolf | |
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| Jim Dickinson and His Son Luther on Coming of Age in the North Mississippi Hill Country | |
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| Why I Wear My Mojo Hand | |
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| Ali Farka Toure: Sound Travels | |
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| French Talking Blues | |
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| Warming by the Devil's Fire | |
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| Bessie Smith: Who Killed the Empress? | |
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| "Ma Rainey" | |
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| A Night With Bessie Smith | |
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| Billie Holiday | |
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| Early Downhome Blues Recordings | |
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| Let's Get Drunk and Truck: A Guide to the Party Blues | |
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| Remembering Robert Johnson | |
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| The Devil's Son-in-Law | |
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| Hoboing With Big Joe | |
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| The Little Church | |
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| Down at the Cross | |
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| Redemption Song | |
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| "I (Too) Hear America Singing" | |
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| The Road to Memphis | |
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| Furry's Blues | |
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| Recalling Beale Street in Its Glory | |
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| Bobby "Blue" Bland: Love Throat of the Blues | |
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| "The River's Invitation" | |
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| On the Road with Louis Armstrong | |
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| Sam Phillips on Gutbucket Blues | |
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| Wolf Live in '65 | |
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| The Soul of a Man | |
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| Visionary Blindness: Blind Lemon Jefferson and Other Vision-Impaired Bluesmen | |
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| "Blind Willie McTell" | |
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| Locating Lightnin' | |
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| Henry Thomas: Our Deepest Look at the Roots | |
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| Janie and Tea Cake | |
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| Photographer Peter Amft on J.B. Lenoir | |
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| Driving Mr. James | |
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| Clifford Antone on Livin' and Lovin' the Blues | |
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| Jimmie Vaughan on Being Born into the Blues | |
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| Somethin' That Reach Back in Your Life | |
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| Goofathers and Sons | |
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| Muddy, Wolf, and Me: Adventures in the Blues Trade | |
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| Chicago Pep | |
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| Memphis Minnie and the Cutting Contest | |
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| Happy New Year! With Memphis Minnie | |
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| Big Bill and Studs: A Friendship for the Ages | |
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| Chicago Blues, Sixties Style | |
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| Getting a Hit Blues Record | |
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| And It's Deep, Too | |
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| Between Muddy and the Wolf: Guitarist Hubert Sumlin | |
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| Me and Big Joe | |
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| Photographer Peter Amft on Chicago Bluesmen | |
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| Buddy Guy Arrives in Chicago | |
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| The Gift | |
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| How I Met My Husband | |
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| Red, White and Blues | |
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| A Conversation With Eric Clapton | |
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| Big Bill Broonzy: Key to the Highway | |
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| The First Time I Met the Blues | |
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| The Rolling Stones Come Together | |
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| My Blues Band: The Rolling Stones | |
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| Piano Blues and Beyond | |
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| Our Ladies of the Keys: Blues and Gone | |
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| On Learning to Play the Blues | |
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| Powerhouse | |
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| Ray Charles Discovers the Piano | |
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| Finding Professor Longhair | |
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| Dr. John and Joel Dorn on New Orleans Piano Styles | |
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| Marcia Ball on Big Easy Blues | |
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| Chris Thomas King's Twenty-First-Century Blues | |
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| Shemekia Copeland on Her Melting-Pot Blues | |
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| My Journey to the Blues | |
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| The Blues Is the Blood | |
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| Afterword | |
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| Blues: The Footprints of Popular Music | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Attributions and Sources | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Photo Credits | |