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Busker's Holiday

Product Description: From award-winning blues scholar and musician Adam Gussow, a taut, sexy first novel about the summer busking scene in Europe and a pair of wild-hearted young men who make a pitch for fame and glory, finding a girl or two along the way...read more

By Adam Gussow

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9780996712408 | Bookbaby, October 15, 2015, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: From award-winning blues scholar and musician Adam Gussow, a taut, sexy first novel about the summer busking scene in Europe and a pair of wild-hearted young men who make a pitch for fame and glory, finding a girl or two along the way.

Don't Start Me Talkin'

By Tom Williams

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9780988480445 | Consortium Book Sales & Dist, February 11, 2014, cover price $15.95

The Next Sure Thing

Cree Thunderboy wants nothing less than to be the next great blues man. But, playing to tiny audiences in shabby rooms like Shelly's Crab Shack, his career is stalled. Then at the race track he meets Win Hardy, a seemingly charming rogue who spots Cree's knack for picking winning horses. He offers to record his first CD and send him on tour, as long as Cree can keep coming up with the hot tips at the track. Things are looking good for Cree until he discovers Win's connections to the mob and his violent response to anything that doesn't go his way. And when things inevitably go bad, Cree discovers that in life and in gambling there is never really the next sure thing.

By Richard Wagamese

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9781554699001 | Orca Book Pub, October 1, 2011, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Cree Thunderboy wants nothing less than to be the next great blues man.

Miscellaneous:

9781554699018 | Orca Book Pub, October 1, 2011, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Cree Thunderboy wants nothing less than to be the next great blues man.

9781554699025 | Orca Book Pub, October 1, 2011, cover price $9.99

Southern Gods

Product Description: A MEMPHIS DJ HIRES RECENT WORLD WAR II VETERAN Bull Ingram to find Ramblinâ John Hastur, a mysterious bluesman whose dark, driving music â broadcast at ever-shifting frequencies by a phantom radio station â is said to make living men insane and dead men rise...read more

By John Hornor Jacobs

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9781597802857 | Nightshade Book, August 1, 2011, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel Recent World War II veteran Bull Ingram is working as muscle when a Memphis DJ hires him to find Ramblin' John Hastur.

CD/Spoken Word:

9781455825165 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, August 16, 2011), cover price $24.99 | About this edition: A MEMPHIS DJ HIRES RECENT WORLD WAR II VETERAN Bull Ingram to find Ramblinâ John Hastur, a mysterious bluesman whose dark, driving music â broadcast at ever-shifting frequencies by a phantom radio station â is said to make living men insane and dead men rise.

9781455825189 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, August 16, 2011), cover price $24.99 | About this edition: A MEMPHIS DJ HIRES RECENT WORLD WAR II VETERAN Bull Ingram to find Ramblinâ John Hastur, a mysterious bluesman whose dark, driving music â broadcast at ever-shifting frequencies by a phantom radio station â is said to make living men insane and dead men rise.

Dirtdobber Blues: A Novel

Product Description: Immensely talented and devastatingly self-destructive, singer/songwriter Charles "Butch" Hornsby lived hard and fast. One of the most versatile artists ever to emerge from South Louisiana, Hornsby touched and frustrated his friends in equal measure...read more

By Cyril E. Vetter

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9780807138304 | Har/com edition (Louisiana State Univ Pr, March 21, 2011), cover price $22.50 | About this edition: Immensely talented and devastatingly self-destructive, singer/songwriter Charles "Butch" Hornsby lived hard and fast.

Crossroad Blues

Product Description: âIn Atkinsâ hands, the characters are as substantial as a down home breakfast of biscuits and ham with red-eye gravy.ââEntertainment WeeklyâCrossroad Blues is a riot of Johnson lore, driven by the sort of stories generations of blues researchers would have sacrificed their children and parents to nail down...read more

By Ace Atkins

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9781935415039 | 10 anv rei edition (Busted Flush Pr, January 30, 2010), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: âIn Atkinsâ hands, the characters are as substantial as a down home breakfast of biscuits and ham with red-eye gravy.

Nighthawk Blues: A Novel

A legendary blues performer traces his extraordinary life, from his humble Mississippi beginnings, to his early experiences of road trips and romance, to his recording and festival performance days. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

By Peter Guralnick

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9780316735728 | Reprint edition (Back Bay Books, October 1, 2003), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A legendary blues performer traces his extraordinary life, from his humble Mississippi beginnings, to his early experiences of road trips and romance, to his recording and festival performance days.

9780938410645 | Thunder''s Mouth Pr, August 1, 1988, cover price $9.95

Miscellaneous:

9780316075442 | Back Bay Books, May 30, 2009, cover price $9.99

Dirty South

When a former New Orleans Saints teammate's life is threatened by a dangerous group of thugs, Nick Travers races against time to reclaim $1,000,000 from a street-tough teenage rap prodigy whose loyalties may be untrustworthy.

By Ace Atkins

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9780060004620 | 1 edition (William Morrow & Co, March 1, 2004), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: When a former New Orleans Saints teammate's life is threatened by a dangerous group of thugs, Nick Travers races against time to reclaim $1,000,000 from a street-tough teenage rap prodigy whose loyalties may be untrustworthy.

Paperback:

9780060004637 | Reprint edition (Avon Books, April 1, 2005), cover price $7.50 | About this edition: When a former New Orleans Saints teammate's life is threatened by a dangerous group of thugs, Nick Travers races against time to reclaim $1,000,000 from a street-tough teenage rap prodigy whose loyalties may be untrustworthy.

Miscellaneous:

9780061925931 | Harpercollins, April 21, 2009, cover price $6.99

Blind Singer Joe's Blues

Product Description: Set in the first two decades of the twentieth century, mainly around Bristol, Virginia (which is partly in Tennessee), the novel focuses on Hannah Ruth Bayless, an untutored Appalachian singer with a beautiful voice; her handsome, thieving, backwoods husband, Dudley Crider; their child, Singer Joe, who is born blind and inherits his mother’s gift; and Pink Miracle, a fiddler from Oklahoma, who falls in love with and later marries Hannah Ruth, taking her away from Bristol and her family and forming a musical partnership with her...read more

By Robert Love Taylor

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9780870745119 | Southern Methodist Univ Pr, November 30, 2006, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: Set in the first two decades of the twentieth century, mainly around Bristol, Virginia (which is partly in Tennessee), the novel focuses on Hannah Ruth Bayless, an untutored Appalachian singer with a beautiful voice; her handsome, thieving, backwoods husband, Dudley Crider; their child, Singer Joe, who is born blind and inherits his mother’s gift; and Pink Miracle, a fiddler from Oklahoma, who falls in love with and later marries Hannah Ruth, taking her away from Bristol and her family and forming a musical partnership with her.

Cutting Time

Product Description: Willie Lee Reed, a young guitarslinger from Detroit, blows into the South Side of Chicago to challenge the master of the blues, Heddy Days, in a cutting sessionâonly to be beaten by one perfect note. But Willie Lee's genius is clear; it's just that he has a lot to learn...read more

By Robert Dunn

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9780970829320 | Coral Pr, October 1, 2003, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Willie Lee Reed, a young guitarslinger from Detroit, blows into the South Side of Chicago to challenge the master of the blues, Heddy Days, in a cutting sessionâonly to be beaten by one perfect note.

Miscellaneous:

9781935512059 | Coral Pr, October 1, 2003, cover price $11.95

Anything Goes

Music and his ability to play the guitar allow twenty-year-old Jesse to escape from his dysfunctional family life by forming a band, called Anything Goes, that embark on a year-long tour across the South, building confidence in his abilities and coming to terms with where is from and where he is going. By the author of All Souls' Rising. 25,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

By Madison Smartt Bell

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9780375421259 | 1 edition (Pantheon Books, June 1, 2002), cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Twenty-year-old Jesse escapes from his dysfunctional family life by forming a band that embarks on a year-long tour across the South, which enables him to come to terms with where he is from and where he is going.

Blues in the Wind

Product Description: Book by Leblanc, Whitney

By Whitney Leblanc

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9780913515471 | River City Pub, April 1, 2002, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Book by Leblanc, Whitney

In the Midnight Rain

Product Description: A RITA award finalist for Best Contemporary Romance from Romance Writers of America. Barbara Samuel's first women's fiction, writing as Ruth Wind. LOOKING FOR THE PASTâ¦ Ellie Connor is a biographer with a special talent for piecing together fragments of the past...read more

By Ruth Wind

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9781574903591 | Largeprint edition (Thomas t Beeler, June 1, 2001), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: A RITA award finalist for Best Contemporary Romance from Romance Writers of America.

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9780061030123 | Harpercollins, May 1, 2000, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Biographer Ellie Connor's research into the life of a long-deceased blues singer uncovers evidence of her own past in a dusty Texas town.

Shadow Ball: A Novel of Baseball and Chicago

Product Description: In the summer of 1919 three men (two white, one black) decide that the Chicago White Sox will be the first major league team in the twentieth century to sign a black player to a major league contract... Set before the broad shoulders of Chicago, Shadow Ball tells the story of Rube Foster, African American owner of the Chicago-American Giants; Charles Comiskey, the owner of the White Sox; and Sam Weiss, their silent go-between...read more

By Peter M. Rutkoff

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9780786409815 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, April 1, 2001, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: In the summer of 1919 three men (two white, one black) decide that the Chicago White Sox will be the first major league team in the twentieth century to sign a black player to a major league contract.

Bluesman

In 1967, Leo Suther, a white eighteen-year-old boy interested in blues music, finds himself caught up in the Vietnam War, in a coming-of-age novel about a young man struggling with personal conflict, ambition, desire, and duty. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

By Andre Dubus

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9780571198122 | Faber & Faber, April 1, 1993, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: In 1967, Leo Suther, a white eighteen-year-old interested in the blues, finds himself caught up in the Vietnam War

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9780375725166 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, February 1, 2001), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: In 1967, Leo Suther, a white eighteen-year-old boy interested in blues music, finds himself caught up in the Vietnam War, in a coming-of-age novel about a young man struggling with personal conflict, ambition, desire, and duty.

9780571198412 | Reprint edition (Faber & Faber, April 1, 1994), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: It is 1967.

Bone Music

Product Description: A little over sixty years ago, Robert Johnson died of poison in a little town up off the bluff in Arkansas. In an hour, a little girl named Lisa will die of cancer. Such different deaths -- but linked, horribly and inevitably, by the crime Robert Johnson committed in the hour that he died...read more

By Alan Rodgers

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9780681100862 | Longmeadow Pr, December 1, 1995, cover price $19.95

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9781587152511 | Wildside Pr, October 1, 2000, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A little over sixty years ago, Robert Johnson died of poison in a little town up off the bluff in Arkansas.

Been Here and Gone: A Memoir of the Blues

Coley Williams, a 102-year-old bluesman, depicts the cultural side of twentieth-century America as he experienced it, recalling his encounters with such figures as Blind Lemon Jefferson, T-Bone Walker, B. B. King, and the young Elvis Presley. (view table of contents)

By David Dalton

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9780380976768 | William Morrow & Co, June 1, 2000, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A panorama of the twentieth century as seen through the eyes of 102-year-old bluesman Coley Williams includes anecdotes about such figures as Charley Patton, Blind Lemon Jefferson, T-Bone Walker, B.

Crossroad Blues: A Nick Travers Mystery

Living the quiet life as a professor at Tulane University, exfootball pro Nick Travers's world is turned upsidedown when a colleague goes missing after he begins doing research on the death of a local jazz legend. By the author of Leavin' Trunk Blues. Reprint.

By Ace Atkins

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9780312192549 | St Martins Pr, October 1, 1998, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: The disappearance of a college professor investigating rumors of previously unknown recordings by renowned blues musician Robert Johnson, murdered more than fifty years earlier, leads Nick Travers along a dangerous trail as he seeks to unravel the dark truths behind an old mystery

Paperback:

9780312971922 | St Martins Pr, February 1, 2000, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: The disappearance of a professor investigating rumors of previously unknown recordings by renowned blues musician Robert Johnson, murdered more than fifty years earlier, leads Nick Travers on a dangerous search as he seeks to unravel the dark truths behind an old mystery

Bluesman

Product Description: Based on the true-to-life experiences of the author growing up on the cotton plantations in Mississippi, this is the story of a young man whose dream was to play, sing and preach the blues. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Fred Steen

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9781857563535 | Janus Pub Co, June 1, 1998, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Based on the true-to-life experiences of the author growing up on the cotton plantations in Mississippi, this is the story of a young man whose dream was to play, sing and preach the blues.

Playing the Bones

Rather than planning her wedding, proper Texas girl Lacy Springs becomes involved in an affair with a local blues star, Black Jesus, and begins an obsessive pursuit of him while journeying into her own past to find the reasons why she keeps falling for the wrong man

By Louise Redd

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9780452278240 | Reprint edition (Plume, May 1, 1997), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Rather than planning her wedding, proper Texas girl Lacy Springs becomes involved in an affair with a local blues star, Black Jesus, and begins an obsessive pursuit of him while journeying into her own past to find the reasons why she keeps falling for the wrong man

Rl's Dream

Facing his death in New York City, Soupspoon Wise remembers his years spent beside blues legend Robert 'RL' Johnson and is comforted by alcoholic angel of mercy Kiki Walters, who faithfully records Soupspoon's memories. Reprint.

By Walter Mosley

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9780786205578, titled "Rl's Dream" | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, November 1, 1995), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Recounting his memories to a young white woman who is also a refugee from a painful Southern past, Soupspoon Wise, a dying blues performer, describes a brief encounter with a famous performer that still haunts him

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9780671884284, titled "Rl's Dream" | Reprint edition (Washington Square Pr, July 1, 1996), cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Facing his death in New York City, Soupspoon Wise remembers his years spent beside blues legend Robert 'RL' Johnson and is comforted by alcoholic angel of mercy Kiki Walters, who faithfully records Soupspoon's memories.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781559273459, titled "Rl's Dream" | Abridged edition (St Martins Pr, August 1, 1995), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A dying blues musician recounts the haunting memory of a brief encounter with a famous performer.

Playing the Bones: A Novel

By Michael Pietsch (editor) and Louise Redd

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9780316735117 | Little Brown & Co, May 1, 1996, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Rather than planning her wedding, proper Texas girl Lacy Springs becomes involved in an affair with a local blues star, Black Jesus, and begins an obsessive pursuit of him while journeying into her own past to find the reasons why she keeps falling for the wrong men

Rl's Dream: A Novel

Recounting his memories to a young white woman who is also a refugee from a painful Southern past, Soupspoon Wise, a dying blues performer, describes a brief encounter with a famous performer that still haunts him. by the author of Black Betty. Tour.

By Walter Mosley

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9780393038026 | W W Norton & Co Inc, August 1, 1995, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Recounting his memories to a young white woman who is also a refugee from a painful Southern past, Soupspoon Wise, a dying blues performer, describes a brief encounter with a famous performer that still haunts him

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