Blues traveling

Description

"Hailed as the Bible of blues travelers throughout the world, Blues Traveling will shepherd the faithful to such shrines as the intersection where Robert Johnson might have made his deal with the devil and the railroad tracks that inspired Howlin' Wolf to moan "Smokestack Lightnin'." Blues Traveling was the first and is the indisputably essential guidebook to Mississippi's musical places and its blues history. For this new edition Steve Cheseborough returned to the Delta, revisited all of the locales featured in previous editions of the book, and uncovered fresh destinations. He includes updated material on new festivals, the newly dedicated state blues markers, club openings and closings, and many other transformations in the Delta's ever-lively blues scene."--Jacket.

First Sentence

Perhaps the first "blues traveler" in Mississippi was the Harvard archaeologist Charles Peabody, who dug up an Indian mound near Clarksdale in 1901-1902.

Subjects

Genres

• Guidebooks

Other Editions

• Blues traveling: the holy sites of delta bluesUniversity Press of Mississippi2001-01-01
• Blues TravelingPaperbackUniversity Press of Mississippi2004-05-01
• Blues TravelingUniversity Press of Mississippi2008-01-01
• Blues travelingUniversity Press of Mississippi2009-01-01
• Blues TravelingUniversity Press of Mississippi2018-01-01
• Blues TravelingUniversity Press of Mississippi2018-01-01