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Blues before sunrise 2 : interviews from the Chicago scene / Steve Cushing.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Music in American life.
- Music in American life
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Blues musicians--Illinois--Chicago--Biography.
- Blues musicians.
- Blues musicians--Illinois--Chicago--Interviews.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 235 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana ; Chicago ; Springfield : University of Illinois Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- In this new collection of interviews, Steve Cushing once again invites readers into the vaults of Blues Before Sunrise, his acclaimed nationally syndicated public radio show. Icons from Memphis Minnie to the Gay Sisters stand alongside figures like schoolteacher Flossie Franklin, who helped Leroy Carr pen some of his most famous tunes; saxman Abb Locke and his buddy Two-Gun Pete, a Chicago cop notorious for killing people in the line of duty; and Scotty "The Dancing Tailor" Piper, a font of knowledge on the black entertainment scene of his day. Cushing also devotes a section to religious artists, including the world-famous choir Wings Over Jordan and their travails touring and performing in the era of segregation. Another section focuses on the jazz-influenced Bronzeville scene that gave rise to Marl Young, Andrew Tibbs, and many others while a handful of Cushing's early brushes with the likes of Little Brother Montgomery, Sippi Wallace, and Blind John Davis round out the volume.Diverse and entertaining, Blues Before Sunrise 2 adds a chorus of new voices to the fascinating history of Chicago blues.
- Contents:
- Talkin' 'bout you. Abb Locke talks about Two-Gun Pete ; Brewer Phillips on Memphis Minnie ; Louise "Mattie" Johnson ; Dick Lapalm talks about Nat King Cole ; Grady Freeman ; Theautry jones
- Amen corner. Clarence Small ; Reverend F. W. McGee ; Pastor Donald Gay
- Bronzeville. Andrew Tibbs ; Bill Samuels ; Marl Young ; Scotty Piper
- Short-order Chicago. Little Brother Montgomery ; "Robert Jr." Lockwood ; Sippie Wallace ; Johnny Lewis ; Homer Harris ; Blind John Davis ; Arbee Stidham ; Collenane Cosey ; Roosevelt Sykes.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780252051685
- 0252051688
- OCLC:
- 1100426741
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