To 1931

Early blues: the first stars of blues guitar

Jas Obrecht

Sweet as the showers of rain

Samuel Charters.

The bluesmen: the story and the music of the men who made the blues

by Samuel Charters.

The original blues: the emergence of the blues in African American vaudeville

Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff

In tune: Charley Patton, Jimmie Rodgers, and the roots of American music

Ben Wynne

The blues makers

by Samuel Charters.

Rhapsodies in black: music and words from the Harlem Renaissance.

They sang the blues

Jelly Roll Anderson

Prewar folk: the old, weird America, 1900- 1940

Stefano Isidoro Bianchi

American epic: the best of Lead Belly

Lead Belly