The Blues Singers: Ten Who Rocked the World

by Julius Lester

Other authorsLisa Cohen (Illustrator)
Hardcover, 2001

Call number

JB 920 L

Publication

Jump At The Sun (2001), 48 pages

Description

Highlights the careers of Bessie Smith, Robert Johnson, Mahalia Jackson, Muddy Waters, Billie Holiday, B.B. King, Ray Charles, Little Richard, James Brown, and Aretha Franklin.

User reviews

LibraryThing member Ronneisha
This book is about a grandfather and his granddaughter. The little girl went to visit her grandfather and he shared different stories with her. This summer when she went to visit, he talked to her about blues singers that either is grandfather told him about, or the singers that he remember for
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himself. There were ten blues singers that he talked to her about particulary. He explained to her what the blues really meant. Overall, this book gives biographies of all ten blues singers that he chose to talk about.
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LibraryThing member jforrest21
This book is awesome. It has several different artists in the book some you recognize and some you don't. It provides some great information on all of them. A lot of the information is info that is in every book.

ISBN

0786804637 / 9780786804634
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