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Edwards Honeyboy |
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The world don't owe me nothing : the life and times of Delta bluesman Honeyboy Edwards / / David Honeyboy Edwards ; as told to Janis Martinson and Michael Robert Frank |
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Chicago, : Chicago Review Press, c1997 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (305 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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HerbertJanis <1956-> |
FrankMichael Robert <1949-> |
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Soggetti |
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Blues musicians - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes discography (p. 271-272), bibliographical references (p. 273-276), and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Cover; Table of Contents; Chapter One: All the people flowed to the Mississippi Delta.; Chapter Two: The water overflowed her heart.; Chapter Three: I kept that guitar in my hands.; Chapter Four: Honey can play now!; Chapter Five: I wasn't going back to them fields.; Chapter Six: The world don't owe me nothing!; Chapter Seven: I was just up and down the road.; Chapter Eight: I had three ways of making it.; Chapter Nine: Everything sounded good to me.; Chapter Ten: Robert was crazy about women and crazy about his whiskey.; Chapter Eleven: We was all just country boys. |
Chapter Twelve: Daddy, you can be my lemon squeezer!Chapter Thirteen: I didn't give a damn about nothing.; Chapter Fourteen: I had to go back to Coahoma before I got found.; Chapter Fifteen: He didn't know how good he was.; Chapter Sixteen: We did so good together, I kept her.; Chapter Seventeen: The blues is something that keeps you moving.; Chapter Eighteen: It don't always matter how good you play.; Chapter Nineteen: Chicago used |
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This vivid oral snapshot of an America that planted the blues is fullof rhythmic grace. From the son of a sharecropper to an itinerantbluesman, Honeyboy's stories of good friends Charlie Patton, Big WalterHorton, Little Walter Jacobs, and Robert Johnson are a |
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