Jimmie Rodgers
The Life and Times of America's Blue Yodeler
The definitive biography of the “Father of Country Music”
Sam Myers
The Blues Is My Story
A house-rocking blues life story of the late Mississippi-born front man of Anson Funderburgh and the Rockets
The New Blue Music
Changes in Rhythm & Blues, 1950–1999
A study that finds African influences of melody, harmony, rhythm, and form in the top 25 songs from each decade of R&B
Bad Boy of Gospel Music
The Calvin Newton Story
The prodigal-son biography of a gospel music legend with the voice of an angel and a hell-bent drive toward self-destruction
Hank Williams, So Lonesome
An authoritative separation of myth from fact in the life of the great country music star
Earl Hooker, Blues Master
The life and early death of a South Side guitar genius, the greatest unheralded Chicago bluesmaker
Africa and the Blues
A narrative that explores the African genealogy of American Blues
The Johnson Family Singers
We Sang for Our Supper
The story of a family of gospel music stars from the golden age of radio
Roosevelt's Blues
African-American Blues and Gospel Songs on FDR
In blues lyrics of the thirties and forties a reflection of FDR’s influence on Black America
