Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: A Musical Journey Book

	Preface	6
	Foreword	8
	Writing About the Blues: The Process	9
	An Introductory Note	10
	A Century of the Blues	12
	"The St. Louis Blues"	15
	"We Wear the Mask"	18
	"Stones in My Passway"	28
	"Dream Boogie"	30
	"You Know I Love You"	38
	"Prisoner's Talking Blues"	47
	Feel Like Going Home	60
	Son House: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning	67
	"Hellhound on My Trail"	71
	The Blues Avant-Garde	74
	The Levee-Camp Holier	76
	Muddy Waters: August 31, 1941	79
	A Riff on Reading Sterling Plumpp's Poetry	81
	Thank God for Robert Johnson	84
	Howlin' Wolf	86
	Jim Dickinson and His Son Luther on Coming of Age in the North Mississippi Hill Country	87
	Why I Wear My Mojo Hand	91
	Ali Farka Toure: Sound Travels	92
	French Talking Blues	96
	Warming by the Devil's Fire	98
	Bessie Smith: Who Killed the Empress?	104
	"Ma Rainey"	106
	A Night With Bessie Smith	112
	Billie Holiday	114
	Early Downhome Blues Recordings	116
	Let's Get Drunk and Truck: A Guide to the Party Blues	119
	Remembering Robert Johnson	123
	The Devil's Son-in-Law	126
	Hoboing With Big Joe	129
	The Little Church	132
	Down at the Cross	133
	Redemption Song	135
	"I (Too) Hear America Singing"	135
	The Road to Memphis	136
	Furry's Blues	140
	Recalling Beale Street in its Glory	144
	Bobby "Blue" Bland: Love Throat of the Blues	146
	"The River's Invitation"	148
	On the Road with Louis Armstrong	150
	Sam Phillips on Gutbucket Blues	152
	Wolf Live in '65	153
	The Soul of a Man	154
	Visionary Blindness: Blind Lemon Jefferson and Other Vision-impaired Bluesmen	165
	"Blind Willie McTell"	167
	Locating Lightnin'	171
	Henry Thomas: Our Deepest Look at the Roots	172
	Janie and Tea Cake	174
	Photographer Peter Amft on J. B. Lenoir	176
	Driving Mr. James	178
	Clifford Antone on Livin' and Lovin' the Blues	180
	Jimmie Vaughan on Being Born into the Blues	182
	Somethin' That Reach Back in Your Life	183
	Godfathers and Sons	184
	Muddy, Wolf, and Me: Adventures in the Blues Trade	188
	Chicago Pep	194
	Memphis Minnie and the Cutting Contest	198
	Happy New Year! With Memphis Minnie	202
	Big Bill and Studs: A Friendship for the Ages	204
	Chicago Blues, Sixties Style	206
	Getting a Hit Blues Record	208
	And It's Deep, Too	211
	Between Muddy and the Wolf: Guitarist Hubert Sumlin	213
	Me and Big Joe	216
	Photographer Peter Amft on Chicago Bluesmen	220
	Buddy Arrives in Chicago	222
	The Gift	223
	How I Met My Husband	226
	Red, White and Blues	228
	A Conversation With Eric Clapton	234
	Big Bill Broonzy: Key to the Highway	239
	The First Time I Met the Blues	243
	The Rolling Stones Come Together	245
	My Blues Band: The Rolling Stones	247
	Piano Blues and Beyond	250
	Our Ladies of the Keys: Blues and Gone	253
	On Learning to Play the Blues	257
	Powerhouse	258
	Ray Charles Discovers the Piano	260
	Finding Professor Longhair	262
	Dr. John and Joel Dorn on New Orleans Piano Styles	263
	Marcia Ball on Big Easy Blues	267
	Chris Thomas King's Twenty-First-Century Blues	268
	Shemekia Copeland on Her Melting-Pot Blues	270
	My Journey to the Blues	271
	The Blues is the Blood	276
	Afterword
	Blues: The Footprints of Popular Music	280
	Acknowledgments	282
	Attributions and Sources	283
	Contributors	286
	Photo Credits	287