Paul and Beth Garon saluted Memphis Minnie’s iconic status as a premier blues artist and symbolic feminist figure in the initial publication of “Woman With Guitar: Memphis Minnie’s Blues” in 1992 by Da Capo Press. A revised edition from City Lights Books in 2014 added considerably to the chapters on her life and career that begin the book, with a foreword by Jim O’Neal and more detailed appendices and documentation based largely on various contributors’ online research into sources not available in 1992. The biographical section brought research up to date on Lizzie Douglas, whose nom du disque became Memphis Minnie when she began recording 1929. Often teamed with her first husband, Kansas Joe McCoy, or her second, Ernest “Little Son Joe” Lawlars, in Memphis and Chicago, she became one of the most prolific and accomplished blues artists of the 1930s and ‘40s. Famed both for her skills on guitar and her song lyrics, she was a tough, pugnacious and independent force who held her own in the very male-dominated blues world of her time. Paul, who wrote the text, and wife Beth, who aided in the crucial research and compilation, also dealt with the creative aspects of her songs and the meaning behind her words, employing both psychoanalytic and surrealist interpretations. The academic language and analyses challenged readers to find new insights when listening to blues.