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World Don't Owe Me Nothing
David Honeyboy Edwards
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Description for World Don't Owe Me Nothing
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: AVGK; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 518.
This vivid oral snapshot of an America that planted the blues is full of rhythmic grace. From the son of a sharecropper to an itinerant bluesman, Honeyboy’s stories of good friends Charlie Patton, Big Walter Horton, Little Walter Jacobs, and Robert Johnson are a godsend to blues fans. History buffs will marvel at his unique perspective and firsthand accounts of the 1927 Mississippi River flood, vagrancy laws, makeshift courts in the back of seed stores, plantation life, and the Depression.
This vivid oral snapshot of an America that planted the blues is full of rhythmic grace. From the son of a sharecropper to an itinerant bluesman, Honeyboy’s stories of good friends Charlie Patton, Big Walter Horton, Little Walter Jacobs, and Robert Johnson are a godsend to blues fans. History buffs will marvel at his unique perspective and firsthand accounts of the 1927 Mississippi River flood, vagrancy laws, makeshift courts in the back of seed stores, plantation life, and the Depression.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Chicago Review Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781556523687
SKU
V9781556523687
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Reviews for World Don't Owe Me Nothing
"A valuable record of a way of life that has all but disappeared."
Washington Post "Magnificent! I've been waiting for this book since I was a kid."
Taj Mahal "The most central contribution to blues history."
Boston Globe "A deeply moving memoir...one of the last true country blues musicians...[a]story of a troubadour and of survival." ... Read more
Washington Post "Magnificent! I've been waiting for this book since I was a kid."
Taj Mahal "The most central contribution to blues history."
Boston Globe "A deeply moving memoir...one of the last true country blues musicians...[a]story of a troubadour and of survival." ... Read more