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Sounds So Good to Me
The Bluesman's Story
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English
Published/Copyright:
2015
About this book
The roots of much American music lie in the intensely personal art form of the blues. What bluesmen from W.C. Handy to B.B. King have told us about their lives has shaped America's perception of the blues. These life stories provide central insights into blues music and stand as a fascinating form of narrative in their own right.
Barry Lee Pearson has conducted dozens of field interviews and collected over a hundred published autobiographies to present this collective portrait of bluesmen's careers as they themselves tell them: their musical learning, communities, work, pleasures, travels, triumphs, and crises.
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Barry Lee Pearson is associate professor of folklore at the University of Maryland.
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Contents
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Preface
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1. Johnny Young's story
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2. David “Honeyboy” Edwards’Story
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3. “You know what you’re going to get now? Interviews!”
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4. “I’m Gonna Get Me a Guitar If It’s the Last Thing I Do”
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5. “They Used to Say It Was the Devil’s Music”
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6. “Sounds So Good to Me”
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7. The wages of sinful music
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8. "Wasn’t only my songs, they got my music too”
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9. “Well, that’s it, that’s mv life story”
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10. “I’ve had hard luck, but it trill change some day”
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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August 22, 2016
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For universities and colleges of further and higher education
