Mister Satan's apprentice : a blues memoir / Adam Gussow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gussow, Adam.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blues musicians--United States--Biography.

Blues musicians.

Gussow, Adam.

Mister Satan, 1936-.

Mister Satan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (429 p.)

Edition:

1st University of Minnesota Press ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Adam Gussow is a writer and blues harmonica player. He is associate professor of English and southern studies at the University of Mississippi in Oxford.

Contents:

Contents; Preface to the New Edition; Prologue: 1969; PART ONE: NEW LIFE; 1. If That Don't Bring Her Back; 2. Everybody in Harlem Knows Satan; 3. Young Man with a Horn; 4. No Bad Fella; 5. White Boys; PART TWO: PRETTY GIRLS; 6. Roaming; 7. Downhearted Blues; 8. ""La Belle Dame sans Merci""; 9. Sweet Harlem Summer; PART THREE: BIG RIVER; 10. Labor Day; 11. Going Someplace; 12. Catfish on the Raft; 13. A Gentle, Fumbling Thing; 14. Ball of Fire; 15. Back Down Yonder; PART FOUR: HOT TOWN; 16. Do the Right Thing; 17. Billed Out; 18. Angel Sound; PART FIVE: HARLEM BLUES; 19. The Same Old Mess

20. What We've Been Trying For, All These YearsEpilogue: April 1998; Thanks; Permissions Acknowledgments

Notes:

Originally published: New York : Pantheon Books, 1998.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-8166-7056-0

OCLC:

607552499