Blue Rhythms: Six Lives in Rhythm and Blues

by Chip Deffaa

Book Overview

Somebody has to pay the dues, says La Vern Baker. Here are the remarkable stories of six dazzlingly talented performers who blazed the R & B trail -- the story of the performers' music and also of their struggle against racism and financial exploitation: Ruth Brown and La Vern Baker, two of the most popular female black singers of the 1950s...Little Jimmy Scott, whom Madonna calls the only singer who ever really made her cry...Charles Brown, master...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252022033
• ISBN13: 9780252022036
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"