Hawkeye Herman

I’m sure most of you have noticed the interest in “alternative” types of music that has taken place in the last few years. I’m not going to try to analyze the phenomena, but I rejoice in it. When the consumer demands variety, the wise shopkeeper responds. Have you noticed how many more blues recordings are available at Coop Records stores? Even large chain stores are catching on; Best Buy, and others are responding to your demands for music that is “out of the mainstream.”

Besides playing and listening to the music, I enjoy reading biographies, autobiographies, and various blues related historical material. I would like to see a bigger variety and selection in books and periodicals in the bookstores. Living Blues, Blues Review, Blues Access, Big City Blues, Sing Out!, Downbeat, Cadence, Dirty Linen, and many other periodicals would be found on the magazine rack…if you badger the manager enough times and get him to talk to his supplier. The same holds true at the bookstore. There are hundreds of wonderful blues related books that are both entertaining and informative. Many have great pictures!

I am frequently asked, “What books can I read to learn more about the music and the people of the Blues?” That’s a tough question, as there are hundreds of titles, and I’m no book reviewer. What I’ve done is put together a list to get you started. (The list is always growing.) It also includes the authors, publishing company names, and cities. So, all you have to do is walk into the book shop and ask if you can place an order, or use any of the major Internet book sellers web sites. When the book retailers start getting people ordering books in this way, they will start to think about stocking a wider selection of music related books in their stores. Just like the record stores have done. You can try this same technique at your local library, as well. Ask if you can talk to a person in the “collection development / acquisitions” department. Show them your list!

My list is strictly a public service. I have no interest in selling books, just sharing information.

Have a healthy and happy New Year! That includes happy listening, playing, and reading!

—Michael “Hawkeye” Herman December 15, 2001

• 101 Best Jazz Albums, The - Len Lyons - William Morrow & Co. - NY, NY
• African Heritage of American English, The - Joseph E. Holloway - Indiana U. Press - Bloomington, IN
• Afro-American Folk Songs - Henry Edward Krehbiel - Clearfield Pub. - 200 E. Eager St., Baltimore, MD
• All Music Guide - Michael Erlewine - Miller Freeman - SF, CA
• American Rock ’n’ Roll on Tour - Dave Walker - Thunders’s Mouth Press
• Art of Ragtime, The - William J. Schafer / Johannes Riedel - Louisiana St. Univ. Press
• Back Woods Blues - Simon Napier - Blues Unlimited - London
• Bass Heroes - Tom Mulhern, edit. - Miller Freeman Pub.
• Beale Street, Where the Blues Began - George W. Lee - Robert O. Ballou Pub. - NY, NY
• Beneath the Underdog - Charles Mingus - Penguin Books
• Bessie Smith - Paul Oliver - A. S. Barnes
• Bessie: Empress of the Blues (Bessie Smith bio.) - Chris Albertson - Abacus / Sphere Books - London
• Beyond Category: The Musical Genius of Duke Ellington - John Edward Hasse - Simon & Schuster - NY, NY
• Bibliographical Dictionary of African and Afro-American Musicians, The - Eileen Southern - Greenwood Press
• Big Road Blues - David Evans - Univ. California Press - Berkeley, CA -1981
• Big Book of Blues, The: A Biographical Encyclopedia - Robert Santelli - Penguin Books - NY, NY - 1994
• Bix: Man and Legend - R. Sudhalter / P. Evans / D. Myatt - Schirmer Books - NY, NY
• Black American Music: Past and Present - Hildred Roach - Krieger Pub. Co. - Melbourne, Florida - 1992
• Black and Blue: The Life and Lyrics of Andy Razaf - Barry Singer - Schirmer - NY, NY - 1993
• Black Chicago - Allan H. Spear - Univ. Chicago Press - Chicago, IL
• Black Metropolis - St. Clair Drake / Horace Clayton - Harper Torchbooks - NY, NY
• Black Music - Imamu A. Baraka (Leroi Jones) - William Morrow & Co. - NY, NY
• Black Pearls - D.D. Harrison - Rutgers Univ. Press - New Brunswick, NJ
• Black Popular Music in America - Arnold Shaw - Schirmer Books - NY - 1986
• Blacks, Whites and Blues - Tony Russell - Stein & Day - NY, NY
• Blackwell Guide to Recorded Blues, The - Paul Oliver, edit. - Blackwell Pub. - Oxford, UK
• Blackwell Guide to Recorded Jazz, The - Barry Kernfeld - Blackwell Pub.
• Blow My Blues Away - George Mitchell - Louisiana St. Univ. Press - Baton Rouge, LA
• Blues - Robert Neff / Anthony Connor - Godine Pub - Boston, MA
• Blues, The : A Bibliographic Guide - Mary L. Hart / Brenda M. Eagles / Lisa N. Howorth - Garland Pub.
• Blues and Evil - Jon Michael Spencer - Univ. of Tennessee Press
• Blues & Gospel Records 1902-1942 - John Godrich / Robert M. W. Dixon - Storyville Pub. - London
• Blues and Gospels - Marguerite Yourcenar - Gallimard Pub. - Paris - 1984
• Blues and the Poetic Spirit - Paul Garon - Eddison Pub. - London
• Blues Guitar: The Men Who Made the Music - Jas Obrecht - Miller Freeman Books - SF, CA
• Blues, The: Ideology and Afro-American Literature - Houston A. Baker Jr. - Univ. of Chicago Press - Chicago, IL
• Bluesland - Pete Welding & Toby Byron , edits. - Dutton/Penguin - NY, NY
• Blues Line, The - Eric Sackheim - Ecco Press
• Blues Lyric Poetry: An Anthology - Michael Taft - Garland Pub.
• Blues People - Imamu A. Baraka - Morrow Pub. - NY, NY
• Blues Records 1943-1966 (vols. 1 & 2)- Mike Leadbitter / Neil Slaven - RIS - London
• Blues Revival, The - Bob Groom - Studio Vista - London
• Bluesman, The: The Musical Heritage of Black Men & Women in the Americas - Julio Finn - Interlink Pub.
• Bluesmen, The - Samuel Charters - Oak Pub. - NY, NY
• Blues: The British Connection - Bob Brunning - Blendford Pub. - London - 1986
• Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades - Clinton Heylin - Simon/Schuster - NY, NY
• Bob Dylan: Performing Artist / Middle Years - Paul William - Underwood Pub.
• Bodies & Soul - Al Young - Creative Art Book Co. - Berkeley, CA
• Book of Negro Folklore, The - Langston Hughes / Arna Bontemps - Dodd, Mead, & Co. - NY, NY
• Born With the Blues - Perry Bradford - Oak Pub. - NY, NY
• Born to Win - Woody Guthrie
• Buried Treasures of The South - W.C. Jameson - August House - Little Rock, AR - 1992
• Cajun Music & Zydeco - Philip Gould - Louisiana St. Univ. Press - Baton Rouge, LA - 1992
• California Cool: W. Coast Jazz Album Covers - Graham Marsh - Chronicle Pub. - S.F., CA
• Catalyst: The Sun Story - Colin Escott / Martin Hawkins - Music Sales Pub. - 1979
• Celebrating the Duke - Ralph J. Gleason - Little, Brown, & Co. - NY, NY
• Charley Patton - John Fahey - Studio Vista Pub. - London
• Chess Blues Discography - Les Fancourt - Fancourt
• Chess Labels, Vols. 1 & 2, The - Michael Ruppili - Greenwood Pub. -1983
• Chicago Breakdown - Michael Rowe - Drake Pub. - NY, NY
• Chuck Berry - The Autobiography - C. Berry - Simon & Schuster - NY, NY
• Classic Rock and Other Rollers - Baron Wolman - Squarebooks
• Complete Muddy Waters Discography, The - Phil Wright / Fred Rothwell - Blues & Rhythm - England
• Conversations with the Blues - Paul Oliver - Horizon Press - 1983
• Cotton Club, The - Jim Haskins - Random House - NY, NY
• Country Music Story , The - Robert Shelton / Bert Goldblatt - Castle Books - Secaucus, NJ
• Country Music USA (A Fifty-YearHistory) - Bill C. Malone - Univ. of Texas Press - Austin, TX
• Cousin Joe: Blues from New Orleans - Harriet J. Ottenheimer/J. Pleasant - Univ. Chicago Press - Chicago - 1987
• Crying for the Carolinas - Bruce Bastin - Studio Vista - London
• Damn Right I’ve Got The Blues - Donald E. Wilcox / Buddy Guy - Woodford Press - SF, CA - 1993
• Dead Elvis - Greil Marcus - Doubleday - NY, NY
• Deep Blues - Robert Palmer - Penguin - NY, NY
• Deep Soul Piano - (Little Brother Montgomery) - Karl Gert zur Heide - Studio Vista - London
• Delta Time: A journey Through Mississippi - Tony Dunbar - Pantheon
• Devil’s Music, The - Giles Oakley - Harvest Books (Harcourt/Brace) - NY, NY
• Devil’s Son-in-Law: Peetie Wheatstraw, The - Paul Garon - Studio Vista Pub. - London
• Down Home Guide to the Blues, The - Frank Scott - A Cappella Press
• Downhome Blues Lyrics: An Anthology from the Post World War II Era - Jeff Tilton - U. of IL Press - Urbana, IL
• Drummers Path , The - Sule Greg Wilson - Inner Traditions Pub.
• Drumming at the Edge of Magic (2 cass.) - Mickey Hart - Harper Pub. - NY, NY
• Duke Ellington Reader, The - Mark Tucker, edit. - Oxford Univer. Press - 1993
• Dylan: A Man Called Alias - Richard Williams - Holt Pub. - NY, NY
• Early Black Photographers 1840-1940 - Deborah Thomas - Norton Pub.
• Early Downhome Blues - Jeff Titon - Univ. of Illinois Press - Urbana, IL
• Early Jazz Greats trading cards - drawn by R. Crumb w / bio. on reverse - Eclipse - Forestville, CA
• Eddie Condon’s Scrapbook of Jazz - E. Condon / H. O'Neal - Galahad Books - NY, NY
• Electric Gypsy: Jimi Hendrix - Harry Shapiro - St. Martin’s Press
• Elvis - Dave Marsh - Thunder’s Mouth Press
• Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, The (vols. 1-4) - Chas. R. Wilson / Wm. Ferris - Doubleday - NY, NY - 1991
• Encyclopedia of Jazz, The - Leonard Feather - Bonanza Books - NY, NY
• Encyclopedia of the Blues - Gerald Herzhaft - Univ. of Arkansas Press - Little Rock, AR
• Eubie Blake - Al Rose - Schirmer Books - NY, NY
• Faber Companion / 20th Century Popular Music - Hardy / Laing - Faber & Faber Pub.
• Feel Like Going Home: Portraits in Blues & Rock ’n’ Roll - Peter Guralnick - Harper Collins - NY, NY
• From Birdland to Broadway: Scenes from a Jazz Life - Bill Crow - Oxford Univ. Press - 1992
• From Blues to Pop:The Autobiography of Leonard "Baby Do" Caston - Jeff Tilton -John Edwards Memorial Found.
• From Cakewalks to Concert Halls: Illus. History of Black Pop. Music from 1895-1930 - Thomas L. Morgan / William Barlow - Elliot & Clark Pub.
• Glory Road, The: The Story of Josh White - Dorothy Schainman Siegel - Shoe Tree Press - Crazet, VA 22932
• Goin’ to Kansas City - Nathan Pearson - Univ. Illinois Press - Champagne, IL - 1987
• Going to Chicago - A Year on the Blues Scene (photos)- Stephen Green - Woodford Pub.
• Good CD Guide, 1993, The - Christopher Pollard - General Gram.
• Gospel Sound, The: Good News and Bad Times - Tony Heilbut - Limelight Editions
• Grove Press Guide To Blues On CD, The - Frank John Hadley - Grove Press - NY, NY - 1993
• Guinness Who’s Who of Blues, The - Collin Larkin, edit
• Harmonicas, Harps, and Heavy Breathers - Kim Field - Simon & Schuster - NY, NY
• Hear Me Talkin’ To Ya: The Story of Jazz - N. Shapiro / N. Hentoff - Dover Pub. - NY, NY
• Heros of the Blues trading cards - drawn by R. Crumb w / bio. on reverse - Eclipse - Forestville, CA
• History of the Blues - Leonard Feather - Charles Hanson - NY, NY
• Honkers and Shouters - Arnold Shaw - MacMillan Pub. - NY, NY
• Hot and Cool : Jazz Short Stories - Marcela Breton, ed. - Penguin Books - NY, NY
• I Hear You Knockin’: The Sound of New Orleans - Jeff Hannusch - Swallow Pub. - 1985
• I Put a Spell on You - Nina Simone - Random House - NY, NY
• I Say Me For A Parable:The Oral Autiobio. of Mance Lipscomb, Texas Bluesman - Glen Alyn - W.W. Norton - NY
• I, Tina Turner, My Life Story - Tina Turner / Kurt Loder - Wm. Morrow Co. - NY, NY - 1986
• Illustrated Encyclopedia of Black Music,The - Harmony Books - NY - 1982
• Illustrated Encyclopedia of Jazz, The - Brian Case / Stan Britt - Harmony Books - NY, NY
• Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock, The - Nick Logan / Bob Woffinden - Harmony Books - NY, NY
• In the Groove - Ted Fox
• Incompleat Folksinger, The - Pete Seeger - Univ. of Nebraska Press - Lincoln, NE
• Jazz and Blues - Graham Valliamy
• Jazz & Blues Lover’s Guide to the U.S., The - Christine Bird - Addison Wesley Co.
• Jazz Ladies Print Portfolio - Pomegranate Books - Petaluma, CA
• Jazz Lexicon, A - Robert S. Gold - Knopf - NY, NY
• Jazz Lives - Gene Lees - Firefly Pub.
• Jazz Style in Kansas City and the Southwest - Ross Russell - Univ Calif. Press - Berkeley, CA
• Jimi (an intimate biography of Jimi Hendrix) - Curtis Knight - Praeger Pub. - NY, NY
• Jimmie Rodgers - Nolan Porterfield - Univ. of Illinois Press - Champaign, IL - 1992
• John Hammond On Record - J. Hammond / Irving Townsend - Ridge Press / Summit Books - NY, NY
• Juke Joint (photos)- Birney Imes - Univ. Mississippi Press - Oxford, MS
• Keith Richards: The Biography - Victor Bockris - Simon/Schuster - NY, NY
• King Blue - Al Simmons - Stone Wind Pub. - Chicago, IL
• King of the Delta Blues (Charlie Patton) - S. Calt / G. Wardlow - Rock Chapel Press - Newton, NJ
• Lady Sings the Blues - Billie Holiday - Avon Books - NY, NY
• Land Where the Blues Began, The - Alan Lomax - Pantheon Books - Westminster, MD - 1993
• Last Days of John Lennon, The - Frederic Seaman - Dell Pub. - NY, NY
• Let the Good Times Roll (Louis Jordan)- John Chilton - Great Britain
• Lexicon of Black English, The - J.L. Dillard - Seabury Press, NY, NY
• Life and Legend of Leadbelly, The - Charles Wolfe / Kip Lornell - Harper Collins Pub. - NY, NY
• Life and Times of Little Richard , The - Charles White - Pocket Books (Simon / Schuster) - NY, NY
• Listen to the Blues - Bruce Cook - Charles Scribner’s Sons Pub.- NY, NY
• Listener’s Guide to the Blues, The - Peter Guralnick
• Living Country Blues - Harry Oster - Folklife Assoc. - Detroit, MI
• Long Blues in A Minor - Gerardi Herzhaft - Univ. Arkansas Press - 1988
• Looking Up at Down: The Emergence of Blues Culture - William A. Barlow - Temple Univ. Press - 1989
• Lost Highway - Peter Guralnick - Vintage Books - NY, NY
• Pops Foster: New Orleans Jazzman - G. Foster / T. Stoddard - Univ. Calif. Press - Berkeley, CA
• Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom - August Wilson - Dutton - 1985
• Meaning of the Blues, The - Paul Oliver - Collier Books - NY, NY
• Meeting the Blues - Alan Govenar - Taylor Pub.
• Memphis Blues - Bengt Olsson - Studio Vista - London
• Really the Blues - Mezz Messrow / Bernard Wolfe - Doubleday - NY, NY
• Midnight Special (the legend of Leadbelly), The - Richard M.Garvin / Edward G. Addeo - Bernard Geiss Assoc.
• Miles Davis for Beginners - Daryl Long - Writers & Readers Pub.
• Mister Jelly Roll - Alan Lomax - Pantheon Books (Random House) - NY, NY - 1993
• Monterey Pop - Joel Selvin - Chronicle Pub. - S.F., CA
• Mother of the Blues: A Study of Ma Rainey - Sandra Lieb - Univ. of Mass. Press - Amhurst, MA
• Musical Gumbo: The Music of New Orleans - Grace Lichtenstein/Laura Danker - W.W. Norton Co. - NY, NY
• Music of Black Americans, The - Eileen Southern - W.W. Norton - NY - 1983
• My Years With Bob Wills - Al Stricklin / Jon McConal - Naylor Co. - San Antonio, TX
• Negro Folk Music: USA - Harold Courlander - Columbia Univ. Press - NY, NY
• Nighthawk Blues (a novel) - Peter Guralnick - Seaview Books
• Nothing But the Blues - Mike Leadbitter - Hanover Books - London
• Nothing But the Blues - Lawrence Cohn - Abbeville Press - N.Y. / London - 1993
• Of Minnie the Moocher and Me - Cab Calloway / Bryant Rollins - Thomas Y. Crowell Co. - NY, NY
• Oh, What A Beautiful City - Robert Tilling - Univ. of Georgia Press - Athens, GA - 1993-P.Mill Press -UK
• Pantheon Guide to Jazz, The - Tom Piazza - Random House - NY, NY
• Pioneers of Country Music tr. cds. - drawn by R. Crumb w / bio. on reverse - Eclipse - Forestville, CA
• Poetry of the Blues, The - Samuel Charters - Oak Pub. - NY, NY
• Pops Foster: New Orleans Jazzman - G. Foster / T. Stoddard - Univ. Calif. Press - Berkeley, CA
• Portraits of Twelve Major American Blues Masters - Pete Welding / Toby Byron
• Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America, The - Nicholas Lemann - Knopf Pub.
• Queen of the Blues (Dinah Washington) - Jim Haskins - William Morrow & Co. - NY, NY
• Rap Attack 2: African Rap / Global Hip Hop - David Toop - Serpent’s Tail Pub.
• Red River Blues: The Blues Tradition in the Southeast - Bruce Bastin - MacMillan Pub. - London - 1986
• Recording the Blues - Robert Dixon / John Godrich - Studio Vista - London
• Remembering Bix - Ralph Berton - Harper & Row - NY, NY
• Rhythm and the Blues: A Life in American Music - Jerry Wexler and David Ritz - Knopf - NY, NY
• Rock and Pop: Day by Day - Frank Laufenberg - Sterling Pub.
• Rock and Roll: The 100 Best Singles - Paul Williams - Carroll & Graff Pub.
• Rock Art: Family Dog Concert Print Portfolio - Pomegranate - Petaluma, CA
• Rock Folk - Michael Lyndon - Carol Pub.
• Rock Names - Adam Dolgins - Carol Pub.
• Rolling Stone III. History of Rock - Anthony de Curtis - Random House - NY, NY
• Satchmo - Louis Armstrong - Signet Books - NY, NY
• Savannah Syncopators: African Retentions in the Blues - Paul Oliver - Madison Books
• Searching for Robert Johnson - Peter Guralnick - Dutton - NY, NY
• Seeds of Man - Woody Guthrie - Pocket Books - NY, NY
• Selections from the Gutter - Art Hodes / Chadwick Hansen - Univ. Calif. Press - Berkeley, CA
• She’s a Rebel: History of Women in Rock and Roll - Gillian G. Gear - Seal Pub.
• Shining Trumpets - Rudi Blesh - Cassell Pub. - London
• Showtime at the Apollo - Ted Fox
• Singer of the Blues - Frank Surge - Lerner
• Six Blues-Roots Pianists - Eric Kriss - Beeekman Pub.
• Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands - Lydia Parrish - Univ. of Georgia Press - Athens, GA - 1993
• Slave Songs of the United States - W.F. Allen/C.P. Ware/L.M. Garrison - Clearfield Co. - Baltimore, MD
• Somebody's Angel Child: The Story of Bessie Smith - Carman Moore - Crowell Pub.
• Songsters and Saints - Paul Oliver - Cambridge Univ Press - London - 1984
• Soul Music A - Z - Hugh Gregory - Sterling Pub.
• Sound of the City, The (The Rise of Rock ’n’ Roll) - Charles Gillett - Dell Pub. - NY, NY
• Sounds Good to Me - Barry L. Pearson - L. Filipacchi Pub. - Paris - 1985
• Sounds of the South - Daniel Patterson, edit. - Duke Univ. Press (Southern Folklore Series)
• Spirituals and the Blues, The - James H. Cone - Seabury Press
• Stevie Ray Vaughn - Caught in the Crossfire - Joe Nick Patoski / Bill Crawford
• Stevie Ray Vaughan, Soul to Soul - Keri Leigh - Taylor Publishing
• Stonemans - An Appalachian Family and the Music That Shaped Their Lives, The - Ivan M. Tribe - U. of IL. Press - Champagne, IL
• Story of the Blues, The - Paul Oliver - Chilton Book Co. - Philadelphia, PA
• Sunnyland Blues - Jack Vaughn and Sunnyland Slim - Proudtooth Pub. - Boston, MA
• Sweet as the Showers of Rain - Samuel Charters - Oak Publications - NY, NY
• Swing City: Newark Nighlife, 1925 -1950 - Barbara J. Kukla - Temple Pub.
• Talking Jazz: An Illustrated Oral History - Ben Sidran - Pomegranate Books - Petaluma, CA
• The World Don't Owe Me Nothin’ - Honeyboy Edwards - Chigago Review Press, Chicago, IL
• They All Played Ragtime - Rudi Blesh / Harriet Janis - Oak Pub. - NY, NY
• Tommy Johnson - David Evans - Studio Vista Pub. - London
• Transforming Tradition - Meil V. Rosenberg, edit. - Univ. of Illinois Press - Champagne, IL
• Trumpet Records: An Illustr. History w/discography - Marc Ryan - Big Nickel Pub. - Milford, NH - 1992
• Urban Blues - Charles Keil - Univ. Chicago Press - Chicago, IL
• Virginia Blues: Country and Gospel Records 1902-1943 - An Annotated Discography - Kip Lornell - U. Kentucky
• Virginia Piedmont Blues:The Lives & Art of Two Virginia Bluesmen (Cephas/Wiggins)- Barry Lee Pearson-U. PA
• Voice of the Delta, The - Robert Sacre, ed. - Liege Univ. Press - Paris, - 1987
• We’ll Understand It Better By And By - Bernice Johnson - Harper Collins - NY, NY - 1992
• What Was the First Rock ’n’ Roll Record? - Dawson / Propes - Faber & Faber Pub.
• Wheelin' on Beale - Louis Cantor - Pharos Pub. - 1992
• Who’s Who in Jazz - John Chilton - Time-Life Special Edition - NY, NY
• Who’s Who in Soul Music - Ralph Tee - Prima Pub.
• Woke Up This Mornin’ : Poetry of the Blues - A.X. Nicholas - Bantam - NY, NY
• Woody Guthrie: A Life - Joe Klein - A. Knopf - NY, NY
• World of Duke Ellington, The - Stanley Dance - Chas. Scribner’s & Sons - NY, NY
• World of Earl Hines, The - Stanley Dance - Chas. Scribner’s & Sons - NY, NY
• World of Jazz, The - Jim Godbolt - Wellfleet Press (Book Sales, Inc.) - Secaucus, NJ
• World of Jazz, The - Rodney Dale - Elsevier-Dutton (Sequoia Elsevier, Inc.) - NY, NY
• World of Swing, The - Stanley Dance - Chas. Scribner’s & Sons - NY, NY

The following books are all published by Da Capo Press, Inc., 233 Spring Street, NY, NY 10013:

• A Left Hand Like God: A History of Boogie Woogie Piano - Peter Sylvester
• Ain’t Misbehavin’: The Story of Fats Waller - Ed Kirkeby
• Arrival of B.B. King, The - Charles Sawyer
• Art of Jazz, The - Martin Williams
• Art of Ragtime, The - William J. Schafer / Johannes Riedel
• Big Bill Blues: William Broonzy Story - William Broonzy / Yannick Bruynoghe
• Big Road Blues - David Evans
• Billie’s Blues - John Chilton
• Bird: The Legend of Charlie Parker - Robert Reisner
• Black Magic - Langston Hughes
• Black Musical Theatre - Allen Woll
• Black Talk - Ben Sidran
• Blow My Blues Away - George Mitchell
• Bluegrass Breakdown - Robert Cantwell
• Blues & the Poetic Spirit - Paul Green
• Blues from the Delta - William R. Ferris
• Blues Makers, The - Samuel Charters
• Blues Off the Record - Paul Oliver
• Blues Who’s Who - Sheldon Harris
• Blues: An Anthology - W.C. Handy
• Bossmen: Bill Monroe and Muddy Waters - James Rooney
• Brother Ray - Ray Charles / David Ritz
• Chicago Blues: The City and the Music - Michael Rowe
• Chicago Breakdown - Michael Rowe
• Country Blues, The - Samuel Charters
• Dexter Gordon: A Musical Biography - Stan Britt
• Divided Soul: The Life of Marvin Gaye - David Ritz
• Duke Ellington In Person - Duke Ellington
• Eric Clapton: Lost in the Blues - Harry Shapiro
• Father of the Blues - W.C. Handy
• I Am the Blues; The Willie Dixon Story - Willie Dixon / Don Snowden
• Jazz Life, The - Nat Hentoff
• Jazz: America’s Classical Music - Grover Sales
• Jimmie the Kid (The Life of Jimmie Rodgers) - Mike Paris / Chris Comber
• Keith Jarrett: The Man and His Music - Ian Carr
• Legacy of the Blues, The - Samuel Charters
• Louis: The Louis Armstrong Story - Max Jones / John Chilton
• Mingus: A Critical Biography - Brian Priestley
• Music is My Mistress - Duke Ellington
• Piece of My Heart -: A Portait of Janis Joplin - David Dalton
• Reggae Bloodlines - Davis / Simon
• Right On: From Blues to Soul in Black America - Michael Haralambos
• Roots of the Blues: An African Search, The - Samuel Charters
• Screening the Blues: Aspects of the Blues Tradition - Paul Oliver
• Stomping the Blues - Albert Murray
• Stormy Monday: The T-Bone Walker Story - Helen O. Dance
• Those Swinging Years - Charlie Barnet
• To Be or Not to Bop - Dizzy Gillespie
• We Called It Music: A Generation of Jazz - Eddie Condon
• White Boy Singin’ the Blues - Michael Bane
• Woman With Guitar: Memphis Minnie’s Blues - Paul and Beth Garon
• World of Count Basie, The - Stanley Dance

• A Well Spent Life - Mance Lipscomb - 44 min.
• An American Songster (John Jackson) - Rhapsody Films
• Big City Blues (w/ Jim Brewer and Son Seals) - 30 min.
• Blues Accordin’ to Lightin’ Hopkins, w/ Sun’s Gonna Shine - 41min.
• Blues House Party
• Blues Like Showers of Rain - 30 min. - $29.95
• Born for Hard Luck (Peg Leg Sam) - Univ. of N. Carolina
• Bukka White & Son House - 60 min. - Masters of the Country Blues (with intro. by Taj Mahal)
• Chicago Blues (w/ Muddy Waters and Floyd Jones) - 50 min.
• Clifton Chenier: King of Zydeco
• Dave Van Ronk
• Dreams and Songs of the Noble Old - narr. by Alan Lomax - Rhapsody Films
• Good Morning, Blues - PBS - Shanachie / Yazoo
• Hot Pepper: The Life and Music of Clifton Chenier
• Ladies Sing the Blues
• Land Where the Blues Began, The - Narr. by Alan Lomax - 60 min. - Rhapsody Films
• Last of the Blue Devils, The - Rhapsody Films
• Louie Bluie - Henry Armstrong - 60 min.
• Mance Lipscomb & Lightin’ Hopkins - 45 min. - Masters of the Country Blues (w/ Taj Mahal)
• Mark Naftalin’s Blues Monday w/ Lowell Fulson & Curtis Mayfield - Rhapsody Films
• Mark Naftalin’s Blues Monday w/ John Lee Hooker & Charlie Musselwhite - Rhapsody Films
• Maxwell Street Blues - Rhapsody Films
• Messin’ With the Blues
• Mike Seeger and Elizabeth Cotton in Concert
• Percy Mayfield: Poet Laureate of the Blues - 30 min.
• Piano Players Rarely Play Together (w/ A. Toussaint, Professor Longhair, & Tuts Washington
• Rev. Gary Davis & Sonny Terry - 50 min. - Masters of the Country Blues (with Taj Mahal)
• Salute to Leadbelly
• Saturday Night, Sunday Morning (Gatemouth Moore) - California Newsreel
• Say Amen, Somebody - Thomas Dorsey gospel video – PBS
• Search for Robert Johnson - Sony Music Corp.
• Sippie (Sippie Wallace)
• Sonny Terry & Brownie McGee and Pete Seeger
• Sun’s Gonna Shine
• Three Generations of the Blues - PBS
• Times Ain’t What They Used to Be - Yazoo #512 - Yazoo/Shanachie, Box 208, Newton, NJ 07860 - 1993
• Zydeco Gumbo