Blues

W.C Handy

Artist Bios

• "The Life and Times of B.B. King" by Charles Sawyer

• "Can't Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters" by Robert Gordon

• "Blues All Around Me: The Autobiography of B.B. King" by B.B. King and David Ritz

• "Hellhound on My Trail: The Life of Robert Johnson" by Gayle Dean Wardlow

• "Father of the Blues: An Autobiography" by W.C. Handy

• "I Feel So Good: The Life and Times of Big Bill Broonzy" by Bob Riesman

• "Searching for Robert Johnson" by Peter Guralnick

• "Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues" by Elijah Wald

• "Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta" by Robert Palmer

• "Moanin' at Midnight: The Life and Times of Howlin' Wolf" by James Segrest and Mark Hoffman

Reference Works

• "The History of the Blues" by Francis Davis

• "Blues People: Negro Music in White America" by Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)

• "The Devil's Music: A History Of The Blues" by Giles Oakley

• "The Land Where the Blues Began" by Alan Lomax

• "The Blues: A Very Short Introduction" by Elijah Wald

Books by Musicians

• "Blues All Around Me: The Autobiography of B.B. King" by B.B. King

• "When I Left Home: My Story" by Buddy Guy

• "The World Don't Owe Me Nothing: The Life and Times of Delta Bluesman Honeyboy Edwards" by David Honeyboy Edwards

• "Ragtime and Blues Guitar of Blind Blake" by Woody Mann (instructional)

Interviews

• "Blues Speak: The Best of the Original Chicago Blues Annual" by Lincoln T. Beauchamp

• "Talking Guitar: Conversations with Musicians Who Shaped Twentieth-Century American Music" by Jas Obrecht

• "Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday" by Angela Y. Davis