British author John Broven's Walking to New Orleans was the first book on the Crescent City's vaunted R&B legacy, and to many it remains the definitive work. Focusing on the recordings of Fats Domino, Lloyd [...]
No writer has done more to chronicle the vibrant sounds of New Orleans rhythm & blues than Jeff Hannusch, a transplanted Canadian who made the Crescent City his home. In his first book, I Hear [...]
Blues Records 1943-1966, by Mike Leadbitter and Neil Slaven, London England: Hanover Books Ltd., 1968. British discographers Mike Leadbitter and Neil Slaven, both key figures in promoting and documenting the blues in the 1960s, illuminated [...]
Sam Charters' groundbreaking research on the blues in the 1950s and '60s resulted in several books that helped fuel the blues revival, bringing to light a musical and cultural history that no previous books had [...]
New York: Rinehart and Co., Inc., 1959. Reprinted with new introduction by the author: New York: Da Capo Press, 1975. The publication of The Country Blues by Sam Charters in 1959 was a major landmark [...]
7 Guitars was one of ten plays by playwright August Wilson that chronicled 100 years of African-American history, one play per decade. Blues was a central theme in much of Wilson's work, and the main [...]
The larger-than-life legend of Chester Arthur Burnett, better known as Howlin' Wolf, is chronicled with care and respect by co-authors James Segrest and Mark Hoffman in their detailed biography Moanin' at Midnight: The Life and [...]
Juke Blues magazine was founded in 1985 in London, England by John Broven, Bez Turner, and current Editor Cilla Huggins. A prime source for articles, interviews, reviews, discographies and photos, Juke Blues is a treasure [...]
Original edition: Blues and Gospel Records 1902-1942, by Robert M.W. Dixon and John Godrich, Hatch End, Middlesex, England: Rust, 1964. Latest edition: Blues and Gospel Records 1890-1943, Fourth Edition, by Robert M.W. Dixon, John Godrich [...]
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982. Reprint: New York: Da Capo Press, 1987. Musicologist Dr. David Evans drew on his extensive research in south Mississippi and Louisiana dating back to 1965 to discuss the processes [...]