W.C. Handy: The Life and Times of the Man Who Made the Blues
Knopf, March 2009. Hardcover. Before there was Elvis, there was W.C. Handy, "the man who made the blues." Here is the first major biography in decades of the man who gave us such iconic songs as "St. Louis Blues," "The Memphis Blues," and "Beale Street Blues," and who was responsible..... More