blues (music)

"Earl "Lil' Choo-Choo" Johnson left home at the age of 10, with only his father's guitar, and stepped into the world of the Delta blues. A guitar prodigy, his music led him to play with blues legends like Robert Johnson, Charley Patton, Son House, Howlin' Wolf, and Muddy Waters. Lil' Choo-Choo's story is a history of the blues, from sharecroppers' shacks on Dockery's Plantation and whiskey-soaked juke joints in Depression-era Mississippi to the swinging clubs of post-war Memphis and Chicago. It encompasses the heyday of Delta blues, the birth of rock and roll, the British invasion, the blues revival of the 1960s, and beyond". -from the publisher.

Traveling across the Mississippi Delta, Bo Willie searches blues landmarks like Dockery Farms and Beale Street for his missing dog.

Feeling most alive when he's playing the blues with his grandfather, Clayton is devastated when his grandfather dies and his mother forbids him from playing music, losses that compel him to run away and join bluesmen on the road.

Text and illustrations look at the history and developmentof rhythm and blues, soul and gospel music.

Contains blues lyrics that chronicle the history of the African-American experience, and includes information about the development of blues music.

Chicago record-company executive Leonard Chess makes a name for his company, Chess Records, and the new talent he signs, including Etta James, Chuck Berry, and Muddy Waters, while the musicians deal with fame, sex, drugs, race issues, and violence during the 1950s and 1960s.

To escape an abusive master, a junkyard dog named Flats runs away and makes a name for himself from Mississippi to New York City playing blues on his guitar.

BB Wolf, a farmer and family man who fancies himself a blues musician by night, is forced into action when Mr. Littlepig tries to use a legal technicality to take his land.

Simple text and color photographs teach young readers about blues music.

"When they are forced to leave their Mississippi farm, young Cassie and her family head north to Chicago in search of a better life, but never lose their blues-playing roots"--OCLC.