Chiefly for voice and piano; in part for piano solo. Reproduces the original sheet music of 38 popular songs, with their covers in black and white. Introduction by David A. Jasen.
Contents:
Aunt Hagar's children blues -- Beale Street -- Crazy blues -- The down home blues -- The farm yard blues (I miss my Mississippi home) -- The hesitating blues -- The Hindenburg blues -- The hooking cow blues -- If you don't believe I love you (look what a fool I've been) -- I'm crazy 'bout your lovin' and I wants it all the time -- I'm free, single, disengaged, looking for someone to love -- I've got de blues -- The jazz-me blues -- The jelly roll blues -- Joe Turner blues -- The jogo blues -- The Kaiser's got the blues (he's got those weary blues) -- Livery stable blues -- The lonesome blues -- Long gone -- The Memphis blues (or Mister Crump) -- Muscle Shoals blues -- The New Orleans hop, scop, blues -- 99 Blues -- Ole Miss rag -- Preparedness blues -- Railroad blues -- Roumania -- Royal Garden blues -- The Saint Louis blues -- San Francisco blues -- Shoeboot's serenade -- The snakey blues (an etude in ragtime) -- Sugar blues -- Tishomingo blues -- The weary blues -- The West Texas blues -- The Yellow Dog blues (he's gone where the Southern cross' the Yellow Dog).
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