Lone Cone Library

A step by step method for learning this rich and powerful style. Graded exercises take you from the fundamentals of fingerpicking to five authentic blues tunes. Each technique is carefully explained and illustrated in the book. All music is presented in both standard notation and tablature. (cassette lost)

Clayton feels most alive when he's with his grandfather, Cool Papa Byrd, and the band of Bluesmen - he can't wait to join them, just as soon as he has a blues song of his own. But then the unthinkable happens. Cool Papa Byrd dies, and Clayton's mother forbids Clayton from playing the blues. And Clayton knows that's no way to live. Armed with his grandfather's brown porkpie hat and his harmonica, he runs away from home in search of the Bluesmen, hoping...

The African experience in America is brought to life in a poem that uses a call and response singing form common to the blues.

"Traveling across the Mississippi Delta, Bo Willie searches blues landmarks like Dockery Farms and Beale Street for his missing dog"--

Kiki Waters takes in Soupspoon Wise, a aging and seriously ill bluesman, when he is evicted from his apartment. Both have to come to terms with the legacies of their pasts.

A history of the Blues genre and its celebrated musicians discusses how African-Americans expressed poverty, injustice, faith, and love in their music as they journeyed from southern plantations to northern cities.