Chasin' That Devil Music, Searching for the Blues With Online Resource,9780879305529

Chasin' That Devil Music, Searching for the Blues With Online Resource

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ISBN13: 9780879305529
ISBN10: 0879305525
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1998-08-01
Publisher(s): Backbeat
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Summary

Chasin' That Devil Music - Searching for the Blues presents the results of extensive research by a blues scholar who has researched the artists on old 78 RPM records to uncover their stories. Includes rare interviews and the actual songs which are on the CD included with each book.

Table of Contents

Foreword vi(1)
Editor's Introduction vii
Prologue: King Solomon Hill 2(8)
I. Initial Inquiries and Encounters
10(66)
Knocking on Doors for 78s: Buying Race Records in the South
10(8)
Record Grades
17(1)
The Immortal Charlie Patton
18(16)
Country Blues and Gospel Pioneers
34(11)
Got Four, Five Puppies, One Little Shaggy Hound
45(18)
Memphis City Directory Blues
61(1)
Searching for Bracey and Johnson: Jackson City Directories 1927 to 1956
62(1)
A Quick Ramble...
63(7)
Six Who Made Recorded History
70(6)
The Story of Charlie Booker...Greenville Smokin'
73(3)
II. Tips, Leads, and Documents
76(30)
The Black Birds of Paradise
76(5)
Down at the Depot: The Story of John Lee
81(5)
Searching for the Robert Johnson Death Certificate
86(5)
Robert Johnson: New Details on the Death of a Bluesman
91(3)
Patton's Murder--Whitewash? Or Hogwash?
94(7)
Bukka White: From Aberdeen to Parchman
101(5)
III. Witnesses
106(20)
Ledell Johnson Remembers His Brother, Tommy
106(6)
Mysteries in Mississippi
110(2)
Luther and Percy: The Huff Brothers
112(3)
Highway 80 Blues
115(3)
Garfield Akers and Joe Callicott: From the Hernando Cotton Fields
118(8)
IV. H.C. Speir
126(26)
Legends of the Lost (The Story of Henry Speir)
126(5)
Godfather of Delta Blues: H.C. Speir
131(21)
V. Retrospectives
152(56)
Reverend D.C. Rice--Gospel Singer
152(7)
Canton, Mis'sippi Breakdown
159(11)
He's a Devil of a Joe
170(11)
Can't Tell My Future: The Mystery of Willie Brown
181(10)
The Two Browns
186(5)
Blind Roosevelt Graves (1909-1962)
191(5)
Stop, Look, and Listen at the Cross Road
196(12)
Epilogue: One Last Walk up King Solomon Hill 208(11)
Afterword 219(2)
References 221(8)
List of 78 rpm Record Issues Cited 229(10)
Index to 78s 239(4)
Chasing Down Ishmon Bracey's Records 240(3)
List of Interviews Cited 243(6)
Reissues 249(16)
Index of Names 265(4)
CD Liner Notes 269(2)
About the Author and Editor 271

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