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Author Cheseborough, Steve, author.

Title Blues traveling : the holy sites of Delta blues / Steve Cheseborough
Edition 3rd ed
Published Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 276 pages) : illustrations
Contents Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Looking for the Blues; Chapter 2: Memphis; Chapter 3: Down Highway 61; Chapter 4: The Clarksdale Area; Chapter 5: The Mid-Delta; Chapter 6: The Greenwood Area; Chapter 7: Greenville to Vicksburg; Chapter 8: The Jackson Area; Chapter 9: East Mississippi; Chapter 10: North Mississippi Hill Country; Recommended Reading; Recommended Listening; Index
Summary At a crossroads in the Mississippi Delta, Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the Devil so that he could become a guitar virtuoso and King of the Delta Blues. Blues Traveling: The Holy Sites of Delta Blues will tell you where that legendary deal was supposed to have been made and guide you to all the other hallowed grounds that nourished Mississippi's signature music. Johnson, Mississippi John Hurt, Memphis Minnie, Jimmie Rodgers, Bessie Smith, Muddy Waters, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Howlin' Wolf, B.B. King, Little Milton, Elvis Presley, Bobby Rush, Junior Kimbrough, R.L. Burnsi
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Blues (Music) -- History and criticism
Blues musicians -- Homes and haunts -- Guidebooks
Musical landmarks -- Mississippi -- Guidebooks
Musical landmarks -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- Guidebooks
Musical landmarks -- Arkansas -- Helena -- Guidebooks
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Blues.
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Soul & R 'n B.
Blues (Music)
Musical landmarks
Blues
SUBJECT Mississippi -- Guidebooks
Memphis (Tenn.) -- Guidebooks
Helena (Ark.) -- Guidebooks
Subject Arkansas -- Helena
Mississippi
Tennessee -- Memphis
Staat Mississippi
Helena, Ark.
Memphis, Tenn.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Guidebooks
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781604733280
1604733284
1282486012
9781282486010
9786612485787
6612485787
9786612486012
6612486015