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Give my poor heart ease : voices of the Mississippi blues

Title
Give my poor heart ease : voices of the Mississippi blues / [interviews by] William Ferris.
Publication
Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.

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Additional Authors
Ferris, William R.
Description
xiv, 302 p. : ill., map; 25 cm. +
Series Statement
H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series.
Uniform Title
H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series.
Subject
  • Blues musicians > Mississippi > Interviews
  • Blues (Music) > Mississippi > History and criticism
  • African Americans > Mississippi > Music > History and criticism
Note
  • CD and DVD track listings at end of book.
  • "This book was published with the assistance of the H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Fund of the University of North Carolina Press"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-269), discography (p. 269-284), filmography (p. 284-289) and index.
Contents
Blues roots. Rose Hill : Mary Gordon ; Reverend Isaac Thomas -- Lake Mary : Martha Dunbar ; Scott Dunbar -- Lorman : Louis Dotson -- Centreville : Fannie Bell Chapman -- Gravel Springs : Otha Turner -- Parchman Penitentiary : Johnny Lee "Have Mercy" Thomas ; Camp B work chant ; James "Blood" Shelby ; Ben Gooch ; Sergeant Webb ; Roosevelt Stewart, Jr. -- Tutwiler : Tom Dumas ; Lee Kizart -- A delta road in Coahoma County : C.L. Redwine ; Corine Gardner -- Blues towns and cities. Leland : James "Son Ford" Thomas ; Gussie Tobe ; Shelby "Poppa Jazz" Brown -- Clarksdale : Jasper Love ; Wade Walton -- WOKJ, Jackson : Joe "Poppa Rock" Louis : The Big Daddy Show ; Bruce Payne, news ; Reverend Marcus Butler : gospel music ; Gary's Meat House ad ; Bruce Payne -- Beale Street : Robert Shaw -- Looking back : Willie Dixon ; B.B. King -- Sacred and secular worlds. Rose Hill Church : Rose Hill Church service ; Clarksdale : house party.
Call Number
Sc Audio CD-696
ISBN
  • 9780807833254 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0807833258 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2009016647
OCLC
317929511
Title
Give my poor heart ease : voices of the Mississippi blues / [interviews by] William Ferris.
Imprint
Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.
Series
H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series.
H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-269), discography (p. 269-284), filmography (p. 284-289) and index.
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Added Author
Ferris, William R.
Research Call Number
Sc Audio CD-696
Sc E 10-770
JNE 10-20 [Text]
*LDC 50157 [CD]
*LDV 1419 [DVD]
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