The History of the Blues: The Roots, the Music, the People - Paperback

by Francis Davis (Author)

In honor of the Year of the Blues, the long-awaited reissue of a myth-shattering examination of a most enduring form of American music

Author Biography

Francis Davis is a contributing editor of the Atlantic Monthly and writes regularly for the New York Times and the New Yorker. He is the author of the acclaimed books Outcats and History of the Blues and a biography of John Coltrane (Knopf). He lives in Philadelphia.