Prologue : brand-new blues -- Back to the 'hood -- The piano -- Three visitors -- Mr. Arthur Reginald Riley -- Funerals -- The Reverend Uncle Frank, lessons on men, and finding Jesus -- The coming of the cold -- Summer heat -- Wrong direction -- The new house -- It's an ill wind that don't blow somebody some good -- Yellow cab to the red-light district -- Junkies and jazz -- World War II : let the good times roll -- Just get on the greyhound, girl -- The Evans exodus -- Jailhouse blues -- From hell to heaven blues -- Snowbound -- The song of the Colvinaires -- New baby blues -- A blizzard of birdshit -- The colors of many changes -- Triumph, tragedy, turmoil, and tenor players -- A little love song -- Little Mattie, big mama, and the beautiful Miss M -- The blues and the Buffalo scuffle -- Escape from Buffalo -- New York City, ditty-wah-ditty -- Fatback -- Bronx gulag and agoraphobia -- The light shineth in the darkness -- From hell to academia -- Welcome to Wisconsin -- On the move in Madison -- Movin' an' moanin', groovin' an' groanin' in Madison -- The way west -- Pipe dreamin' in the valley of smoke -- A standing O in San Diego -- Take it! -- Beelzebub and the mad Mexican -- Make a joyful noise! -- New mule kickin' in our stall -- Blues on the omnibus -- Blow out at the Belly Up |