Daddy Played the Blues

Daddy Played the Blues
Title Daddy Played the Blues PDF eBook
Author Michael Garland
Publisher Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing
Total Pages 36
Release 2017-09-11
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 0884485900

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*Notable Social Studies Trade Books Selection for Young People 2018* “I was six years old the day we left the farm in Mississippi,” remembers Cassie in this richly textured picture book. “Between the boll weevils, the floods, and the landlord, there was no way a family could scratch out a living there anymore.” Packing themselves into an old jalopy—with Daddy, Uncle Vern, and Mama in the front seat and Cassie and her two brothers in the back—they joined the Great Migration from the impoverished Deep South to Chicago, where there was work to be had in the stockyards. Across the kids’ laps lay Daddy’s prized possession, a six-string guitar. Daddy worked hard to put food on the table, but what he really loved was playing the blues. This evocative tale of the African-American odyssey in search of a better life is also a homage to the uniquely American music that developed from African music and American spirituals, work songs, and folk ballads. In the book’s backmatter, Garland relates how he first heard and fell in love with blues music, beginning a lifelong fandom. Portraits and thumbnail biographies of great blues musicians and landmark songs complete this tribute to the great American music and the yearnings that produced it. Fountas & Pinnell Level S

The Daddy Longlegs Blues

The Daddy Longlegs Blues
Title The Daddy Longlegs Blues PDF eBook
Author Mike Ornstein
Publisher Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages 40
Release 2009
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 9781402743597

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Daddy Longlegs will have kids singing along with his bluesy song as they read this hip picture book! He’s one cool cat who scats, an eight-legged drummer keeping the beat. He moves and grooves and gets funky across the floor. And one thing’s for sure: no one’s better at getting mellow on a saxophone, and bringing rhythm and soul into every child’s home. Mike Ornstein’s catchy rhyming text is irresistibly musical, and Lisa Kopelke’s witty art features plenty of fun details and an urban, bohemian flair; her sunglasses-wearing title character seems to come straight out of the Beat generation. A glossary of blues terms, a list of instruments played by the characters, and a page of facts about daddy longlegs and blues music provides extra entertaining info.

Roots and Blues

Roots and Blues
Title Roots and Blues PDF eBook
Author Arnold Adoff
Publisher HarperCollins
Total Pages 97
Release 2011-01-03
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 0547758642

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Through poems and poetic prose pieces, acclaimed children's author Arnold Adoff celebrates that uniquely American form of music called the blues. In his signature “shaped speech” style, he creates a narrative of moments and joyous music, from the drums of the ancestors, the red dirt of the plantations, the current of the mighty Mississippi, and the shackles, blood, and tears of slavery. Each chop of the ax is a beat, each lash of the whip fashions another line on the musical staff. But each sound also creates the chords and harmonies that preserve the ancestors and their stories, and sustain life, faith, and hope into our own times.

Mississippi Juke Joint Confidential: House Parties, Hustlers & the Blues Life

Mississippi Juke Joint Confidential: House Parties, Hustlers & the Blues Life
Title Mississippi Juke Joint Confidential: House Parties, Hustlers & the Blues Life PDF eBook
Author Roger Stolle
Publisher Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages 176
Release 2019
Genre History
ISBN 1467141577

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Juke joint--two words often used, often abused. They convey an inherent promise of something real, edgy, from another time. All juke joints are blues clubs, but not all blues clubs are jukes. Here, artist recollections and insights delve below the murky surface to tell the tales, canonize the characters and explain the special brand of blues bottled in these quasi-legal establishments. Author Roger Stolle works from the inside to educate and entertain with a mix of history, anecdote and discovery. It's a wild ride.

Daddy Blues

Daddy Blues
Title Daddy Blues PDF eBook
Author Clarence M. Jones
Publisher
Total Pages 6
Release 1920
Genre Blues (Music)
ISBN

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The Blues Route

The Blues Route
Title The Blues Route PDF eBook
Author Hugh Merrill
Publisher Garrett County Press
Total Pages 162
Release 2012-01-01
Genre Music
ISBN 1891053760

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Journalist Hugh Merrill takes us on a sweeping road trip in search of the distinctly American music known as the blues. Tracing blues culture from its beginning in rural Mississippi up through the Delta to Chicago and beyond, Merrill visits with legendary musicians such as Son Thomas, Koko Taylor, Son Seals, Valerie Wellington and Magic Slim. In fascinating interviews, Merrill uncovers wonderful stories about Robert Johnson, Big Bill Broonzy, Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, Jelly Roll Morton, Bessie Smith, Ida Cox and Ma Rainey. The trip dips into New Orleans as Merrill explores how the blues exploded in clubs and cribs, influencing dixieland, jazz and zydeco. A trip out west presents a lovely tour of the cocktail lounges of Oakland and Los Angeles and the guardians of the blues who live there. The Blues Route is an engrossing narrative, a book that celebrates not only the music but the continuing search for sympathy, understanding and affinity that the blues embodies.

Father Of The Blues

Father Of The Blues
Title Father Of The Blues PDF eBook
Author W.c. Handy
Publisher Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Total Pages 368
Release 1985-01-21
Genre Composers
ISBN

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"W. C. Handy's blues--"Memphis Blues,"" ""Beale Street Blues,"" ""St. Louis Blues""--changed America's music forever. In Father of the Blues, Handy presents his own story: a vivid picture of American life now"