Histories and Biographies:

Sonny Boy II Told His Sisters "Keep It To Yourself", But They Told Me His Best-kept Secret

Interesting new information from William Donoghue on Aleck Ford aka Rice Miller aka Sonny Boy Williamson aka...

The City of Wortham's Musical Treasure

An essay by David Gaskin concerning the life and death of Blind Lemon Jefferson. Includes photos of Lemon's gravesite!

Blind Willie McTell

By Jim Powers

Reflections of 1920's Street Life In The Music of Bessie Smith

By Ross Whitney

W.C. Handy

Clarence Williams

The above are excerpts from Tom Morgan's book "From Cakewalks to Concert Halls: An Illustrated History of African-American Popular Music 1895-1930"

St. Louis Blues: An American Classic

An unpublished history of this classic blues tune. By Tom Morgan.

Rural Blues

An essay on the development of rural blues in the Delta, Texas and Piedmont regions by Ethan Crosby(crosbyt@kenyon.edu)

Miscellaneous:

The Supreme Court Of Mississippi Decisions concerning the Estate Of Robert Johnson.

The actual legal documents concerning this case.

Interview with R.L. Burnside

Interviewed by Leonard Watkins (ISTS024@UABDPO.DPO.UAB.EDU).

Interview with Dr. David Evans

An in-depth interview with noted Blues researcher and scholar Dr. David Evans.

Dick Waterman on Son House

A short essay based on an interview I conducted with Dick Waterman in March 1995.

What is Blues? (Humour)

Edward Liu (edwick@cc.bellcore.com) speaks The Truth.

Untitled

Something I wrote a while back. I'm no poet, but I guess this is a poem.