A
Alberta Hunter: A Celebration in Blues
Frank C. Taylor 1987
All Music Guide to the Blues: The Experts' Guide to the Best Blues Recordings (All Music Guide Series)
Michael Erlewine (Editor), et al 1996
The Arrival of B.B. King: The Authorized Biography
Charles Sawyer 1984
Authentic Blues: Its History and Its Themes (Studies in the History and Interpretation of Music, Vol 47)
Robert Springer, Andre J. M. Prevos (Translator) 1996
Return to top
B
Bay Area Blues
Lee Hildebrand, et al 1993
Bessie Smith (Lives of Modern Women)
Elaine Feinstein 1986
The B.B. King Companion: Five Decades of Commentary (Master Musician Series)
Richard Kostelanetz (Editor), et al 1997
Bessie Smith (Lives of Modern Women)
Elaine Feinstein 1986
Bessie Smith Companion
Edward Brooks 1983
The Best of the Blues: The 101 Essential Blues Albums
Robert Santelli 1997
The Best of the Blues: The Essential CD Guide (The Essential CD Guides)
Roger St. Pierre 1993
Big Bill Blues: William Broonzy's Story
William Broonzy 1992
The Big Book of Blues: A Biographical Encyclopedia
Robert Santelli 1994
Big Road Blues: Tradition and Creativity in the Folk Blues
David Evans 1988
Big Star Fallin' Mama: Five Women in Black Music
Hettie Jones 1997
The Billboard Book of Number One Rhythm & Blues Hits
Adam White, Fred Bronson 1993
Black and White Blues
Marc Norberg (Photographer), Martin Pedersen
1995
Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s
Daphne Duval Harrison 1990
Blacks, Whites, and Blues
Tony Russell 1980
The Blackwell Guide to Blues Records
Paul Oliver (Editor) 1989
Blow My Blues Away
George Mitchell 1983
Blues
Neff Connor, Anthony Connor 1975
The Blues (Traditional Black Music)
Jerry Silverman 1994
The Blues: Album Cover Art
Graham Marsh (Editor), Barrie Lewis (Editor) 1996
Blues All Around Me: The Autobiography of B.B. King
B. B. King, David Ritz 1996
Blues: An Anthology: Complete Words and Music of 53 Great Songs
W. C. Handy 1990
The Blues: A Bibliographic Guide (Music Research and Information Guides, Vol 7)
Mary L. Hart, et al 1989
Blues : A Photographic DocumentaryDavid Harrison
Random House Value Pub. 1997
Blues Boy: The Life and Music of B.B. King (American Made Music Series)
Sebastian Danchin
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi 1998
ISBN: 1578060176
Blues: The British Connection
Bob Brunning 1987
Blues and Evil
Jon Michael Spencer 1993
Blues Fell This Morning: Meaning in the Blues (Canto Series)
Paul Oliver 1994
Blues from the Delta
William R. Ferris 1988
Blues and Gospel Records : 1890-1943
Robert M. W. Dixon, John Godrich
Oxford Univ Press 1997
Blues Guitar: The Men Who Made the Music
Jas Obrecht (Editor) 1993
Blues Guitarists, from the Pages of Guitar Player Magazine
A. Symons 1975
Return to top
Blues, Ideology and Afro-American Literature
Houston A. Baker 1987
The Blues is a Feeling: Voices and Visions of African-American Blues Musicians
James Fraher
Publisher: Midwest Traditions
ISBN: 1883953189
Bluesland: Portraits of Twelve Major American Blues Masters
Pete Welding, Toby Byron (Editor) 1992
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie HolidayAngela Yvonne Davis
Pantheon Books 1998
ISBN: 067945005X
Blues Legends
Charles K. Cowdery 1995
Blues Lyric Poetry: An Anthology
Michael Taft 1983
Blues Lyric Poetry: A Concordance (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, 362)
Michael Taft 1984
The Blues Makers: Containing Reprints of Two Titles: The Bluesmen and Sweet As the Showers of Rain
Samuel Charters 1991
Bluesman
Andre, III Dubus 1993
The Bluesmen: The Story and the Music of the Men Who Made the Blues
Samuel Barclay Charters 1967
The Bluesman: The Musical Heritage of Black Men and Women in the Americas
Julio Finn 1992
Blues Off the Record: Thirty Years of Blues Commentary
Paul Oliver 1988
Blues on CD: The Essential Guide
Charles Shaar Murray 1993
Blues and the Poetic Spirit
Paul Garon 1996
Blues Records 1943-1970: A Selective Discography Volume 1, A-K
Mike Leadbitter, Neil Slaven 1987
Blues Records: 1943-1970 Volume 2, L-Z
Mike Leadbitter (Compiler) 1995
The Blues Route
Hugh Merrill 1990
Blue Rhythms: Six Lives in Rhythm and Blues (Music in American Life)
Chip Deffaa 1996
Blues: The Story Always Untold
Sterling D. Plumpp 1989
Blues Who's Who: A Biographical Dictionary of Blues Singers
Sheldon Harris 1988
Blueswomen: Profiles of 37 Early Performers, With an Anthology of Lyrics, 1920-1945
Anna Stong Bourgeois 1996
Bone Music
Alan Rodgers 1995
The Buffalo Nickel Blues Band
Judie Angell 1991
C
The Chess Labels: A Discography
Michel Ruppli 1983
Chicago Breakdown
Mike Rowe 1980
Chicago Blues: The City and the Music
Mike Rowe 1988
Cleveland Lee's Beale Street Band
Anna Rich (Illustrator), Arthur Flowers 1996
Conversation With the BluesPaul Oliver
Cambridge Univ Press 1997
The Country Blues
Samuel Barclay Charters 1988
Cousin Joe: Blues from New Orleans
Cousin Joe, Joseph Pleasant 1987
Return to top
D
Damn Right I've Got the Blues: Buddy Guy and the Blues Roots of Rock-And-Roll
Donald E. Wilcock, et al 1993
Deep Blues
Robert Palmer 1995
The Devil's Music: A History of the Blues
Giles Oakley 1997
Do Angels Sing the Blues?
A. C. Lemieux 1996
Downhome Blues Lyrics: An Anthology from the Post-World War II Era (Music in American Life)
Jeff Todd Titon (Editor) 1990
The Down Home Guide to the Blues
Frank Scott, Staff of Down Home Music 1991
E
Early Downhome Blues: A Musical and Cultural Analysis (Cultural Studies of the United States)
Jeff Todd Titon 1995
The Early Years of Rhythm and Blues: Focus on Houston
Alan B. Govenar 1990
Elemental Blues: Poems 1981-1982
Raymond R. Patterson
Electric Blues (Life, Times and Music Series)
Erikka Haa 1997
Encyclopedia of the Blues
Gerard Herzhaft, et al 1997
Encyclopedia of the Blues
Gerard Herzhaft, Brigitte Debord (Translator) 1992
Every Day I Sing the Blues: The Story of B.B. King (An Impact Biography)
David Shirley 1995
Extensions of the Blues
Mary Ellison 1989
Return to top
F
Feel like Going Home; Portraits in Blues & Rock n' Roll
Peter Guralnick
Ferdinand 'Jelly-Roll' Morton: The Collected Piano Music
Ferdinand Morton 1981
First Pressings: The History of Rhythm & Blues: 1955 (First Pressings, Vol. 5)
Galen Gart (Editor) 1990
G
Goin' Back to Memphis: A Century of Blues, Rock 'N' Roll, and Glorious Soul
James Dickerson 1996
Going to Chicago: A Year on the Chicago Blues Scene
Stephen Green (Photographer), Laurence J. Hyman (Editor) 1991
Going to Cincinnati: A History of the Blues in the Queen City (Greater Cincinnati Bicentennial History)
Steven C. Tracy 1993
Grove Press Guide to Blues on CD
Frank John Hadley 1993
A Guide to the Blues: History, Who's Who, Research Sources
Austin, Jr. Sonnier 1994
H
The Hero and the Blues (The Paul Anthony Buck I.E. Brick Lectures, 9th Ser)
Albert Murray 1973
The History of the Blues Vol 1
Francis Davis 1996
The History of the Blues (Musicbooks)
Peter O. E., Jr Bekker, Peter O. E. Bekker Jr. 1997
Return to top
I
I Am the Blues: The Willie Dixon Story
Willie Dixon, Don Snowden 1990
Improvising Blues Guitar
Straw 1975
International Bibliography of Discographies
David Edwin Cooper 1975
It Came from Memphis
Robert Gordon 1995
I Say Me for a Parable: The Oral Autobiography of Mance Lipscomb, Texas Bluesman
Mance Lipscomb, Glen Alyn (Editor) 1993
I'd Rather Be the Devil: Skip James and the Blues
Stephen Calt 1994
J
Jam Session: Portraits of Jazz and Blues Muscians Drawn on the Scene
Mark Gardner, et al 1987
James Brown: The Godfather of Soul
James Brown, Bruce Tucker 1997
Jazz and Blues
Graham Vulliamy 1982
Joel Whitburn's Top R and B Singles, 1942-1988
Joel Whitburn 1988
K
Kansas City Jazz and Blues Nightlife Survival Kit
Todd R. Wilkinson 1990
King of the Delta Blues: The Life an Music of Charlie Patton
Stephen Calt 1988
Return to top
L
The Land Where the Blues Began
Alan Lomax 1995
Langston Hughes and the Blues
Steven C. Tracy 1988
The Legacy of the Blues: A Glimpse into the Art and the Lives of Twelve Great Bluesmen: An Informal Study
Samuel Barclay Charters 1988
Let the Good Times Roll: The Story of Louis Jordan and His Music (Michigan American Music)
John Chilton 1994
Little Blues Book
Brian Robertson (Editor), R. Crumb (Illustrator) 1996
Listen to the Blues
Bruce, Cook 1975
The Listener's Guide to the Blues
Peter Guralnick 1982
Looking Up at Down: The Emergence of Blues Culture
William Barlow 1990
M
Ma Rainey and the Classic Blues Singers
Derrick Stewart-Baxter 1970
Meeting the Blues/the Rise of the Texas Sound
Alan Govenar 1995
Mississippi Black Folklore: A Research Bibliography and Discography
William R. Jr. Ferris 1971
Miss Rhythm: The Autobiography of Ruth Brown, Rhythm and Blues Legend
Ruth Brown, Andrew Yule 1996
Muddy Waters, Mojo ManSandra Tooze
ECW Press 1997
Musichound Blues : The Essential Album GuideGary Graff, Leland Rucker
Visible Ink Press 1997
Return to top
N
The New Blackwell Guide to Recorded Blues (Blackwell Guide Series)
John Cowley (Editor), Paul Oliver (Editor) 1996
The New Grove Gospel Blues and Jazz: With Spirituals and Ragtime
Paul Oliver, William Bolcom 1988
The New Grove Gospel Blues and Jazz: With Spirituals and Ragtime
Paul Oliver
W W Norton & Co. 1997
Nothing but the Blues: The Music and the Musicians
Lawrence Cohn, et al 1993
O
P
Pop Music and the Blues: A Study of the Relationship and Its Significance.
Richard. Middleton 1972
Portrait of the Blues : America's Blues Musicians in Their Own WordsPaul Trynka, Val Wilmer
Da Capo Press 1997
The Prestige Label: A Discography (Discographies, No. 3)
Michel Ruppli, et al 1980
Return to top
Q
Queen of the Blues: A Biography of Dinah Washington
James Haskins 1987
R
Really the Blues
Mindy Giles, Stephen Green (Photographer) 1996
Red River Blues: The Blues Tradition in the Southeast (Music in American Life)
Bruce Bastin 1995
Rhythm and the Blues: A Life in American Music
Jerry Wexler, David Ritz 1994
The Rhythm and Blues Story
Gene Busnar 1985
Rhythm Oil: A Journey Through the Music of the American South
Stanley Booth 1993
Right on: From Blues to Soul in Black America
Michael Haralambos 1979
Robert Johnson
Samuel Charters 1979
The Roots of the Blues: An African Search
Samuel Barclay Charters 1982
Roosevelt's Blues: African-American Blues and Gospel Songs on FDR (American Made Music Series)
Guido Van Rijn, Guido Van Rijn 1997
The Roots & Rhythm Guide to Rock
Frank Scott, Al Ennis 1993
Return to top
S
Savannah syncopators: African retentions in the blues
Paul Oliver 1970
Screening the Blues: Aspects of the Blues Tradition
Paul Oliver 1989
Searching for Robert Johnson
Peter Guralnick 1989
Singers of the Blues.
Frank Surge 1969
Sitting in: Selected Writings on Jazz, Blues, and Related Topics
Hayden Carruth 1993
Soulsville, USA: The Story of Stax Records
Rob Bowman, Robert M. J. Bowman 1997
Sounds So Good to Me: The Bluesman's Story
Barry Lee Pearson 1984
Soul Music: The Birth of a Sound in Black America
Michael. Haralambos 1985
The Spirituals and the Blues: An Interpretation
James H. Cone 1992
The Story of the Blues (The Life, Times & Music Series)
Peter O. E. Bekker 1997
Stevie Ray: Soul to Soul
Keri Leigh 1993
Stomping the Blues
Albert Murray 1989
Stormy Monday: The T-Bone Walker Story
Helen Oakley Dance 1990
The Story of the Blues
Paul Oliver 1982
Sweet As the Showers of Rain
Samuel Barclay. Charters 1979
Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom
Peter Guralnick 1986
T
They All Sang on the Corner: A Second Look at New York City's Rhythm and Blues Vocal Groups
Philip Groia 1983
This House on Fire: The Story of the Blues (The African-American Experience)
Craig Awmiller 1996
Return to top
U
Up from the Cradle of Jazz: New Orleans Music Since World War II
Jason Berry, et al 1992
Upside Your Head!: Rhythm and Blues on Central Avenue (Music Culture)
Johnny Otis 1993
Urban Blues
Charles Keil 1966
V
Virginia Piedmont Blues: The Lives and Art of Two Virginia Bluesmen (Publications of the American Folklore Society. New Series)
Barry Lee Pearson 1990
Virginia's Blues, Country, & Gospel Records 1902-1943: An Annotated Discography
Kip Lornell 1989
Return to top
W
White Boy Singin' the Blues
Michael Bane 1992
Winning Bids: Actual Prices Paid for Jazz and Blues 78 Rpm Recordings
Robert Hibbert 1988
Woman With Guitar: Memphis Minnie's Blues
Paul Garon, Beth Garon 1992
The World of Blues
David Harrison 1994
The World Don't Owe Me Nothing : The Life and Times of Delta Bluesman Honeyboy EdwardsDavid Honeyboy Edwards, Janis Martinson, Michael Robert Frank
