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Summary:

A companion to the PBS-TV series presents an impressionistic portrait of the blues as viewed by seven famous directors, in a collection of photographs, historical and personal essays, and interviews.

Table of Contents:

• A century of the blues / Robert Santelli
• The St. Louis Blues / W.C. Handy
• We wear the mask / Paul Laurence Dunbar
• Stones in my passway / Robert Johnson
• Dream boogie / Langston Hughes
• You know I love you / Lou Willie Turner
• Feel like going home / Martin Scorsese
• Prisoner's talking blues / Robert Pete Williams
• Son House / Christopher John Farley
• Hellhound on my trail / Robert Johnson
• The Blues Avant-Garde / Luc Sante
• The Levee-camp holler / Alan Lomax
• Muddy Waters / Robert Gordon
• A riff on reading Sterling Plumpp's poetry / John Edgar Wideman
• Thank god for Robert Johnson / Elmore Leonard
• Howlin' Wolf / Greg Tate
• Jim Dickinson and his son Luther on coming of age in the North Mississippi hill country
• Why I wear my mojo hand / Robert Palmer
• Ali Farka Tuore: sound travels / Farley
• French talking blues / Catherine Nedonchelle

• Warming by the devil's fire / Charles Burnett
• Bessie Smith / Farley
• Ma Rainey / Sterling Brown
• A night with Bessie Smith / Carl Van Vechten
• Billie Holiday / Hilton Als
• Early downhome b lues recordings / Jeff Todd Titon
• Let's get drunk and truck: a guide to the party blues / James Marshall
• Remembering Robert Johnson / Johnny Shines
• The devil's son-in-law / Ralph Ellison
• Hoboing with Big Joe / David "Honeyboy" Edwards
• The little church / William Faulkner
• Down at the cross / James Baldwin
• Redemption songn / W.E.B. Du Bois
• The Road to Memphis / Richard Pearce
• Furry's blues / Stanley Booth
• Recalling Beale Street in its glory / Will Shade
• Bobby "Blue" Bland [Bobby Bland]: love throat of the blues / Robert Gordon
• The river's invitation / Percy Mayfield
• On the road with Louis Armstrong / David Halberstam
• Sam Phillips on gutbucket blues
• Wolf live in '65 / Robert Palmer
• The soul of a man / Wim Wenders
• Visionary blindness: Blind Lemon Jefferson and other vision-impaired bluesmen / Farley
• Blind Willie McTell / Bob Dylan
• Locating Lightnin' / Samuel Charters
• Henry Thomas: our deepest look at the roots / Mack McCormick
• Janie and Tea Cake / Zora Neale Hurston
• Photographer Peter Amft on J.B. Lenoir
• Driving Mr. James / John Szwed
• Clifford Antone on livin' and lovin' the blues
• Jimmie Vaughan on being born into the blues
• John Lee Hooker
• Godfathers and sons / Marc Levine
• Muddy, Wolf, anad me: adventures in the blues trade / Peter Wolf
• Chicago pep / Robert Palmer
• Memphis Minnie and the cutting contest / Farley
• Happy new year with Memphis Minnie / Langston Hughes
• Big Bill / Studs Terkel and Jeff Scheftel
• Chicago blues, sixties style / Charters
• Getting a hit blues record / Willie Dixon (with Don Snowdon)
• Toure
• Between Muddy and the Wolf: guitarist Hubert Sumlin / Paul Trynka
• Me and Big Joe / Michael Bloomfield (with S. Summerville)
• Peter Amft on Chicago bluesmen
• Buddy Guy arrives in Chicago / Trynka
• The Gift / Paul Oscher
• How I met my husband / Suzan-Lori Parks
• Red, white and blues / Mike Figgis
• Eric Clapton / Peter Guralnick
• Big Bill Broonzy / Farley
• Val Wilmer
• The Rolling Stones / Stanley Booth, Richard Hell
• Piano blues and beyond / Clint Eastwood
• Our ladies of the keys / Farley
• On learning to play the blues / Otis Spann
• Powerhouse / Eudora Welty
• Ray Charles discovers the piano / Michael Lydon
• Finding Professor Longhair / Jerry Wexler
• Dr. John and Joel Dorn on New Orleans piano styles
• Marcia Ball on Big Easy blues
• Chris Thomas King's 21st century blues / Swenson
• Shemekia Copeland on her melting pot blues
• Anthony DeCurtis
• David Ritz
• Blues: the footprints of popular music / Chuck D
• Contributors, credits.

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Contributors:

Guralnick, Peter , editor

Santelli, Robert , editor

George-Warren, Holly , editor

Farley, Christopher John , editor

Gibney, Alex , writer of supplementary textual content

Chuck D, 1960- , writer of supplementary textual content

Scorsese, Martin , writer of supplementary textual content

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

English text.

Related Works:

Martin Scorsese presents The blues (Television program)

Subjects:

Blues (Music) — History and criticism

Blues (Music)

United States

Genres:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-287).
From the collection of Wayne and Kathy Zatopek.

Physical Description:

287 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 21 cm

Call Numbers:

ML3521 .M36 2003

ISBNs:

0060525444
9780060525446
0060525452
9780060525453

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2003045145

OCLC Numbers:

52937841