Dick Waterman : a life in blues / Tammy L. Turner ; foreword by Edward M. Komara.

"Growing up in an affluent Jewish family in Plymouth, Massachusetts, Dick Waterman (b. 1935) was a shy, stuttering boy living a world away from the Mississippi Delta. Though he never heard blues music at home, he became one of the most influential figures in blues of the twentieth century. A close p...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:American made music series.
Main Author: Turner, Tammy L., 1967- (Author)
Other Authors: Komara, Edward M., 1966- (writer of foreword.)
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2019]
Series:American made music series.
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Physical Description:xiv, 226 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • I didn't have no blues
  • Gonna get me a religion
  • I grabbed up my suitcase and took off down the road
  • I'm a-preach these blues
  • Wouldn't mistreat nobody not for my weight in gold
  • I just wasn't satisfied
  • Change my way of living
  • He's a traveling horse
  • I's thinkin' 'bout the good time
  • A good friend is hard to find
  • I done everything I could
  • Walkin' blues
  • With the blues three different ways
  • Years have gone past
  • He's the best ever been in this town
  • Interviews, correspondence, and personal communications.