With their relationship unwelcome, Leeba and Red soon find themselves in the middle of the civil rights movement, and they discover that, in times of struggle, music can bring people together.
Blues musicians
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Author:Rosen, RenéeSummary: -
Author:Wagamese, RichardSummary:Cree Thunderboy wants nothing less than to be the next great blues man. But, playing to tiny audiences in shabby rooms like Shelly's Crab Shack, his career is stalled. Then at the race track he meets Win Hardy, a seemingly charming...
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Author:Flerlage, RaeburnSummary:A stunning collection of photographs from Chicago’s foremost blues photographer. When Raeburn Flerlage was asked to take a picture of Memphis Slim in 1959, he began a career that would produce some of the most fascinating and important...
- Author:Anderson, Annye C.Summary:
An intimate memoir by blues legend Robert Johnson's stepsister, including new details about his family, music, influences, tragic death, and musical afterlife. Though only 27-years-young and relatively unknown at the time of his...
- Author:Alexander, PaulSummary:
A revelatory look at the tumultuous life of a jazz legend and American cultural icon In the first biography of Billie Holiday in more than two decades, Paul Alexander - author of heralded lives of Sylvia Plath and J. D. Salinger - gives...
- Author:Chilton, JohnSummary:
Portrays the famed jazz singer's life and career, recounting her tragic fate stemming from stardom, loneliness, and drug addiction.
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Author:Emery, AnneSummary:A rich man and a poor man are found dead of gunshot wounds outside a seedy bar on Barrington Street in Halifax. The police declare it a murder-suicide, but bluesman/lawyer Monty Collins--hired to represent the victims' families--...
- Author:Wagamese, RichardSummary:
This volume contains two novellas by Richard Wagamese, Him Standing and The Next Sure Thing. Both stories follow the lives of young artists who have dreams for a better future.
