Chasin' That Devil Music: Searching for the Blues: With Online Resource by Gayle Wardlow

Leonard Corporation, Hal, 1998. Paperback. Good. Disclaimer:Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Leonard Corporation, Hal, 1998. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Leonard Corporation, Hal, 1998. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Backbeat. Trade Paperback. Good. Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio: BookMarx Bookstore. Books shipped within 24 hours. No marks or writing observed in text. Binding sound. Some creasing to spine and light wear on cover. Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio: BookMarx Bookstore. Books shipped within 24 hours.

Backbeat, 1998. paperback. Acceptable. 6x0x8. No CD. No writing, highlighting, or marks in text.Paperback.Minor wear to page edges and corners. Cover clean.Binding tight. No CD

Backbeat, 0000-00-00. Pap/Com. paperback. Used: Good.

Backbeat, 1998-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. 8x5x0.

Backbeat. CLEAN Fine softcover. CD in rear pocket. book appears unread. . Fine. Soft cover. 1998.

San Francisco, CA: Backbeat. CD still in sealed pouch. E13 . Fine. Soft cover. 2006.

San Francisco: Backbeat Books, 1998. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 271 pages, b&w illustrations. Chasin' That Devil Music has the feel of a documentary about the making of a thrilling motion picture. The main focus is on the Delta blues singers of the early 20th century--artists such as Charley Patton, Tommy Johnson, Son House, and Blind Lemon Jefferson who've achieved near-mythic status in blues circles. In addition, many of the articles gathered in this splendidly illustrated volume capture the process and people involved in tracking long-lost recordings nearly as elusive as the performers who made them. Here, for example, is the story of author/blues scholar Gayle Dean Wardlow's three-year hunt for the death certificate of Robert Johnson, the celebrated Mississippi bluesman and a figure whose legend has grown greater with each year since his much-debated death in 1938. The text here is nearly as raw in spots as the music that sparked it, but, as with those sounds (which can be heard… Read More