One Book One Community 2023: The Blues: Keep Reading

Reason: Grammy Award-winning blues musicians offer insights on their careers in both richly
detailed memoirs. The Blues also surveys the genre's history. -- Kaitlin Conner

Reason: These books have the genre "adult books for young adults"; and the subjects "blues
(music)," "music history and criticism," and "jazz music."

Reason: These books have the subjects "blues (music)," "blues musicians," and "popular music."

Reason: These books are richly detailed, and they have the subjects "blues (music)," "blues
musicians," and "music."

Reason: These books have the subjects "blues (music)," "popular music," and "music history and
criticism."

Reason: These books are well-researched, and they have the subjects "popular music," "music,"
and "music history and criticism."

Reason: These books have the genre "arts and entertainment -- music -- folk"; and the subjects
"blues (music)," "blues musicians," and "popular music."

Reason: These books are richly detailed, and they have the subjects "blues (music)," "music," and
"music history and criticism."

This intensely personal and entertaining account is a snapshot of Blues from an outsider welcomed into the inner circles of Southern Blues icons.

Wirt details Smith's significant impact on rock and roll history and underscores both the longevity of his music -- which has entertained and inspired for over five decades -- and the musician's personal endurance in the face of hardship and opposition.

Music Is History combines Questlove's deep musical expertise with his curiosity about history, examining America over the past fifty years.

A companion book to the PBS documentary series Martin Scorsese presents the blues: a musical journey.

In this extraordinary reconstruction of the origins of the Delta blues, historian Marybeth Hamilton demonstrates that the story as we know it is largely a myth. The idea of something called Delta blues only emerged in the mid-twentieth century, the culmination of a longstanding white fascination with the exotic mysteries of black music.

Witness to dark prejudice and lynching in his youth, B.B. performed incessantly (some 15,000 concerts in ninety countries over nearly sixty years)-in some real way his means of escaping his past.His career roller-coasted between adulation and relegation, but he always rose back up

The life story of jazz singer Billie Holiday told in her own words. Holiday writes candidly of sexual abuse, confinement to institutions, heroin addiction, and the struggles of being African American before the rise of the Civil Rights Movement.

In the only complete biography of this internationally renowned blues singer and musician, Martin Hawkins traces Harpo’s rural upbringing near Louisiana’s capital, his professional development fostered by the local music scene, and his national success with R&B hits like Rainin’ in My Heart, Baby Scratch My Back, and I’m A King Bee, among others.

The result of careful and meticulous research, this stylishly-written biography of infamous blues musician Robert Johnson reveals the real story behind the mythical talent that made him a musical legend.

A punch-drunk memoir in which Everyone's Favorite Questlove tells his own story while tackling some of the lates, the greats, the fakes, the philosophers, the heavyweights, and the true originals of the music world.