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Blues Bibliography

Charters, Samuel B. The Bluesmakers. New York: Da Capo, 1991.
Charters, Samuel. The Roots of the Blues. Salem, NH: Marion Boyars, 1981.
Cohn, Lawrence. Nothing But the Blues: the Music and the Musicians. New York: Abbeville, 1993.
Davis, Francis. The History of the Blues. New York: Hyperion, 1995.
Epstein, Dana. Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil War. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1977.
Erlewine, Michael ed. All Music Guide to the Blues. San Francisco: Miller Freeman, 1996.
Herzhaft, Gerand. Encyclopedia of the Blues. Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press, 1992.
Leadbitter, Mike, ed. Nothing But the Blues. New York: Hanover Books, 1971.
Lomax, Alan. The Land Where the Blues Began. New York: Pantheon Books, 1993.
Oliver, Paul. Blues Fell the Morning (Meaning in the Blues). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Palmer, Robert. Deep Blues. New York: Penguin, 1981.
Sackheim, Eric, ed. The Blues Line: A Collection of Blues Lyrics. New York: Ecco Press, 1993.
Santelli, Robert. The Best of the Blues: The 101 Essential Albums. New York: Penguin, 1997.
Southern, Eileen. Music of Black Americans: A History. 3rd ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1997.
Welding, Pete & Toby Byron. Bluesland. New York: Dutton, 1991.