Preface
Chapter 1: The Second Coming of the Son
Chapter 2: "Ramblified"
Chapter 3: "The Blues Blowed My Spirit Away"
Chapter 4: My Black Mama
Chapter 5: Dry Spell Blues
Chapter 6: Jinx Blues
Chapter 7: Eclipse
Chapter 8: "Father of the Folk Blues"
Chapter 9: "He Was Who He Was"
Chapter 10: The Legacy of Son House
Appendix 1: Song Lyrics
Appendix 2: Southold, NY, Police Report
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index
Daniel Beaumont teaches courses on Arabic language and literature and the blues at the University of Rochester. He is the author of Slave of Desire: Sex, Love and Death in The 1001 Nights (Associated University Presses 2002). He produced and directed "So Much Truth" a documentary about bluesman Joe Beard. He also worked as chief observer on a rain making project in Libya and he has been on the historic "King Biscuit Time" blues radio show.
"Beaumont's work shines especially in his depiction of House's
nonrecording years... the definitive portrait of this unjustly
neglected lion of American Music." --Library Journal (starred
review)
"Beaumont offers vivid portraits of the pre-WWII blues scene and
the mid-1960s efforts of white ethnomusicologists to rediscover and
promote blues singers."
--Alan Moores, Booklist
"Daniel Beaumont, who teaches Arabic language and literature at the
University of Rochester, has produced an eloquent study of House's
life and travails." --Benjamin Ivry, Star-Ledger
"Preachin' the Blues achieves what any music biographer most
aspires to: It makes a reader want to seek out the music it
describes. And even in an iTunes age, when Son House's Levee Camp
Moan can be found with a click instead of a drive to Rochester,
it's still a journey with rich rewards." --Charles R. Cross, The
Seattle Times
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