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9780306809194

Blue Rhythms

by Deffaa, Chip
  • ISBN13:

    9780306809194

  • ISBN10:

    0306809192

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-12-24
  • Publisher: Da Capo
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Summary

"Somebody has to pay the dues," says LaVern Baker. Here are the remarkable stories of six dazzlingly talented performers who blazed the R & B trailthe story of the performers' music and also of their struggle against racism and financial exploitation: Ruth Brown and LaVern Baker, two of the most popular female black singers of the 1950s; Little Jimmy Scott, whom Madonna calls the only singer who ever really made her cry; Charles Brown, master of the "club blues" style; Floyd Dixon, a more rambunctious fellow-traveler; and the earthy, urbane Jimmy Witherspoon, who recorded some of the biggest R & B hits ever.

Author Biography

Chip Deffaa, jazz critic for the New York Post, has written seven other books, including Voices of the Jazz Age: Profiles of Eight Vintage Jazzmen and Swing Legacy. A winner of the ASCAP–Deems Taylor Award, he contributes regularly to Entertainment Weekly, JazzTimes, and Crescendo.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsp. xi
Note on the Rhythm and Blues Foundationp. xv
Introductionp. 1
"Nobody knows you...."p. 15
"Like a motherless child...."p. 73
"I'm driftin' and driftin'...."p. 102
"Hard living alone...."p. 138
"Where ya been so long?"p. 174
"How long blues?"p. 217
Suggestions for Further Listening and Readingp. 243
Notesp. 261
Bibliographyp. 269
Indexp. 275
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