blues music

A Memphis DJ hires Bull Ingram to find Ramblin' John Hastur, a bluesman whose dark music is broadcast on a phantom radio station and who can make men insane and the dead rise. The music fills Bull with rage and sends him in search of the bluesman who sold his soul to the devil. However, during the search, Bull finds something worse than the devil and Hell.

Traces the development of rhythm and blues music from 1950 to 1999 by analyzing the top twenty-five songs of each decade and exploring the genre's links to African heritage and traditions.

Traces the history of blues music back to nineteenth-century plantations of the Mississippi Delta, and discusses the musical careers of Muddy Waters, B.B. King, John Lee Hooker, and other Delta musicians.

Presents a collection of essays that explore the history and development of blues music, from Muddy Waters and Otis Spam in the 1960s, to Zydeco and Doopsie in the 1970s and more.

A collection of poems by Kevin Young which follow a classic blues trajectory.

Text and photographs look at the history of blues music.

A collection of 120 poems about life and music by California poet laureate Al Young. Includes CD.

Profiles forty-nine men and women who are the biological and spiritual children fathered and mentored by the masters of blues music, explaining how each musician is helping keep the blues tradition alive.