Research Catalog
The blues dream of Billy Boy Arnold
- Title
- The blues dream of Billy Boy Arnold / Billy Boy Arnold ; with Kim Field.
- Author
- Arnold, Billy Boy
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2021.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Field, Kim
- Description
- xiii, 287 pages : illustrations (black and white); 24 cm
- Summary
- "Billy Boy Arnold, born in 1935, is one of the few native Chicagoans who both cultivated a career in the blues and stayed in Chicago. His perspective on Chicago's music, people, and places is rare and valuable. Arnold has worked with generations of musicians--from Tampa Red and Howlin' Wolf and to Muddy Waters and Paul Butterfield--on countless recordings, witnessing the decline of country blues, the dawn of electric blues, the onset of blues-inspired rock, and more. Here, with writer Kim Field, he gets it all down on paper--including the story of how he named Bo Diddley Bo Diddley"--
- Series Statement
- Chicago visions and revisions
- Uniform Title
- Chicago visions + revisions.
- Subject
- Arnold, Billy Boy
- Blues musicians > Illinois > Chicago > Biography
- African American musicians > Illinois > Chicago > Biography
- Harmonica players > Illinois > Chicago > Biography
- Blues (Music) > Illinois > Chicago > History and criticism
- MUSIC / History & Criticism
- Blues (Music)
- Blues musicians
- Harmonica players
- Illinois > Chicago
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes discography (pages 265-276) and index.
- Contents
- Born in Chicago -- Sonny Boy Williamson -- Billy Boy -- "Juke" -- Bo Diddley -- Bluesman -- The blues breaks out -- All around the world -- My blues dream.
- Call Number
- Sc E 22-234
- ISBN
- 9780226809205
- 022680920X
- LCCN
- 2021010983
- OCLC
- 1240773020
- Author
- Arnold, Billy Boy, author.
- Title
- The blues dream of Billy Boy Arnold / Billy Boy Arnold ; with Kim Field.
- Publisher
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2021.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Chicago visions and revisionsChicago visions + revisions.
- Bibliography
- Includes discography (pages 265-276) and index.
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Added Author
- Field, Kim, author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 22-234