Blues Fell This Morning
Meaning in the Blues
- Author: Oliver, Paul
remarkable ... a definitive study in breadth and depth of the themes, backgrounds, imagery and motivation of the blues —
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Contents
- List of illustrations
- Author's note and acknowledgements to the first edition
- Foreword by Richard Wright
- Preface to the revised edition
- Introduction
- 1. Got to work or leave
- 2. Railroad for my pillow
- 3. Pains in my heart
- 4. I'm a rooster, baby
- 5. The jinx is on me
- 6. Let the deal go down
- 7. Evil and mean and funny
- 8. Goin' to take a rap
- 9. World black as midnight
- 10. Going down slow
- 11. Blues like showers of rain
- Bibliographical references
- Discography of quoted blues
- Acknowledgements to discography
- Index of quoted blues singers
- General index.