Encyclopedia of the Blues

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by Gˇrard Herzhaft

University of Arkansas Press

Due/Published May 1997, 336 pages, paper

ISBN 1557284520

A new edition of Arkansas' Encyclopedia, now with over 75 rarely or never-before-published photographs by Paul Harris, Anton Mikofsky, and Gerard Haussler to complement this great guide to the blues. From the early blues makers like Robert Johnson, Blind Boy Fuller, Bessie Smith, to more contemporary artists such as Robert Cray and Joe Louis Walker this volume is truly an indispensable resource complete with biographical entries; examinations of instruments, trends, recordings, producers, and performers; bibliography; discography; as well as a compilation and mini-study of several blues standards.