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Jeannie Cheatham is a living legend in jazz and blues. A pianist, singer, songwriter, and co-leader of the Sweet Baby Blues Band, she has played and sung with many of the greats in blues and jazz—T-Bone Walker, Dinah Washington, Cab Callaway, Joe Williams, Al Hibbler, Odetta, and Jimmy Witherspoon....

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Cheatham, Jeannie,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2006
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (436 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue:
  • Back to the ’Hood
  • The Piano
  • Three Visitors
  • Mr. Arthur Reginald Riley
  • Funerals
  • The Reverend Uncle Frank, Lessons on Men, and Finding Jesus
  • The Coming of the Cold
  • Summer Heat
  • Wrong Direction
  • The New House
  • It’s an Ill Wind That Don’t Blow Somebody Some Good
  • Yellow Cab to the Red-Light District
  • Junkies and Jazz
  • WorldWar II: Let the Good Times Roll
  • Just Get On the Greyhound, Girl
  • The Evans Exodus
  • Jailhouse Blues
  • From Hell to Heaven Blues
  • Snowbound
  • The Song of the Colvinaires
  • New Baby Blues
  • A Blizzard of Birdshit
  • The Colors of Many Changes
  • Triumph, Tragedy, Turmoil, and Tenor Players
  • A Little Love Song
  • Little Mattie, Big Mama, and the Beautiful Miss M
  • The Blues and the Buffalo Scuffle
  • Escape from Buffalo
  • New York City, Ditty-Wah-Ditty
  • Fatback
  • Bronx Gulag and Agoraphobia
  • The Light Shineth in the Darkness
  • From Hell to Academia
  • Welcome to Wisconsin
  • On the Move in Madison
  • Movin’ an’ Moanin’, Groovin’ an’ Groanin’ in Madison
  • The Way West
  • Pipe Dreamin’ in the Valley of Smoke
  • A Standing O in San Diego
  • Take It
  • Beelzebub and the Mad Mexican
  • Make a Joyful Noise
  • New Mule Kickin’ in Our Stall
  • Blues on the Omnibus
  • Blow Out at the Belly Up Tavern and the Birth of Three Generations of the Blues
  • Mr. Jefferson Comes to Town
  • The Birth of the Sweet Baby Blues Band
  • Hot Bulbs and Hot Flashes
  • Sturm und Drang Blues: Vienne, France
  • Shoofly Pie with Shafafa in The Hague
  • Chickenshit or Chicken Salad
  • How Long
  • Effluvia and Euphoria
  • From Slavery to the White House
  • Tears of Sorrow
  • Blues like Jay McShann
  • ABC: Around theWorld, Beyond Betrayal, Celebrations
  • Livin’ in the Nineties
  • Making History in a Small Hotel
  • Back to Bina Avenue

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