top of page
TITLE
AUTHOR
PUBLISHED
PAGES
Between Midnight and Day: The Last Unpublished Blues Archive
Dick Waterman
2003
176
Black Music
LeRoi Jones
1969
211
Black Swan Blues: The Hard Rise & Brutal Fall of America’s First Black-owned Record Label
Paul Slade
2021 (expanded edition)
159
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday
Angela Y. Davis
1998
197 pages plus 158 pages of lyrics
Blues Legends
Charles K. Cowdery
1995
94
Blues People: Negro Music in White America
LeRoi Jones
1948
236
Blues: a photographic documentary
David Harrison
1997
143
Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta
Robert Palmer
1981
277
Dylan
Jonathon Cott
1984
240
Father of the Blues: An Autobiography
W.C. Handy
1941
304
Gibson: Volume 1
Andre’ Duchossoir
1981
166
His Eye is on the Sparrow: An Autobiography
Ethel Waters with Charles Samuels
1951
278
I Am The Blues: The Willie Dixon Story
Willie Dixon with Don Snowden
1989
229
I Feel So Good: The Life and Times of Big Bill Broonzy
Bob Riesman
2011
255
Janis
David Dalton
1971
154
Moanin’ at Midnight: The Life and Times of Howlin’ Wolf
James Segrest and Mark Hoffman (2004)
2004
323
Muddy Waters: The Mojo Man
Sandra B. Tooze
1997
299
Please Be With Me: A Song for My Father, Duane Allman
Galadrielle Allman
2014
344
The Big Book of Blues: A Biographical Encyclopedia
Robert Santelli
1993
476
The Midnight Special: The Legend of Leadbelly
Richard M. Garvin and Edmond G. Addeo
1971
312
The Ultimate Guitar Book
Tony Bacon
1991
187
Woman with Guitar: Memphis Minnie’s Blues
Paul and Beth Garon
1992
255
bottom of page