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1) Grown
Author
Language
English
Description
"When legendary R & B artist Korey Fields sports Enchanted Jones at an audition, Chanty's dreams of being a famous singer take flight. Until she wakes up with blood on her hands and zero memory of the previous night. Who killed Korey Fields? Before there was a dead body, Enchanted's dreams had turned into a nightmare, because behind Korey's charm and star power was a controlling dark side. Now he's dead, the police are at the door, and all signs point...
2) Bluesman
Author
Language
English
Description
It is the summer of 1967 and Leo Suther is about to turn eighteen. This is the summer that everyone has something to teach Leo. His father warns him that "life can turn on a dime." Allie, his girlfriend, wants to teach him about love. Her father, the local communist and civil rights organizer, lectures him on politics and carpentry. And Ryder, a family friend, wants to show Leo the magic of the harmonica--harp of the blues.
However, when Leo's life...
3) Dirty South
Author
Series
Nick Travers mysteries volume 4
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Raven Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Cree Thunderboy wants nothing less than to be the next great blues man. But, playing to tiny audiences in shabby rooms like Shelly's Crab Shack, his career is stalled. Then at the race track he meets Win Hardy, a seemingly charming rogue who spots Cree's knack for picking winning horses. He offers to record his first CD and send him on tour, as long as Cree can keep coming up with the hot tips at the track.
Things are looking good for Cree until...
Author
Series
Nick Travers graphic novels volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
New Orleans blues historian Nick Travers investigates the disappearance of a music professor. The case is linked to the unsolved murder, half a century earlier of a famous blues guitarist, Robert Johnson.
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Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the author of the bestselling The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat, an exuberant and poignant new novel of passions, family, and forgiveness. When a late life love affair blooms between Mr. Forrest Payne, the owner of the Pink Slipper Gentleman's Club, and Miss Beatrice Jordan, famous for stationing herself at the edge of the club's parking lot and yelling warnings of eternal damnation at the departing patrons, their wedding summons a legend...
8) Labyrinth
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A blues singer, Boratin, attempts suicide by jumping off the Bosphorus Bridge, but opens his eyes in the hospital. He has lost his memory, and can't recall why he wished to end his life. He remembers only things that are unrelated to himself, but confuses their timing. He knows that the Ottoman Empire fell, and that the last sultan died, but has no idea when. His mind falters when remembering civilizations, while life, like a labyrinth, leads him...
9) RL's dream
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
When a black musician in New York is evicted for non-payment of rent, a white woman living in the same apartment block takes him in. He is Soupspoon Wise, a gentle jazz guitarist from Mississippi who has cancer. She is Kiki Waters, a drinking, swearing redhead from Arkansas who works on Wall Street. The novel traces their menage.
11) Bone music
Author
Publisher
Longmeadow Press
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
A resurrected Elvis Presley is one of the protagonists in this hoodoo voodoo tale about blues singers, musicians and saints who join forces to combat the evil unleashed by the playing of a forbidden song at a funeral. By the author of New Life for the Dead.
12) Graceland
Author
Series
Publisher
Plus One Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
JP Kincaid has to sort out the suspicious death of a blues historian and any connection to Farris "Bulldog" Moody, an inductee into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
13) Windy City blues
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The bestselling author of White Collar Girl and What the Lady Wants explores one woman's journey of self-discovery set against the backdrop of a musical and social revolution. In the middle of the twentieth century, the music of the Mississippi Delta arrived in Chicago, drawing the attention of entrepreneurs like the Chess brothers. Their label, Chess Records, helped shape that music into the Chicago Blues, the soundtrack for a transformative era...
14) Dirty bird blues
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Set in post-World War II Chicago and Omaha, the novel features Manfred Banks, a young, harmonica-blowing blues singer who is always writing music in his head. Torn between his friendships with fellow musicians and nightclub life and his responsibilities to his wife and child, along with the pressures of dealing with a racist America that assaults him at every turn, Manfred seeks easy answers in 'Dirty Bird' (Old Crow whiskey) and in moving on. He...
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