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100 1 $aTownsend, Henry.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85269852
245 12 $aA blues life /$cHenry Townsend as told to Bill Greensmith.
260 $aUrbana :$bUniversity of Illinois Press,$c[1999], ©1999.
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337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aMusic in American life
504 $aIncludes discography (p. 127-138), bibliographical references (p. [139]), and index.
505 0 $aLike a bullet -- The sweetest guitar I've ever played -- Revenge is sweet -- Have fun with it -- The music is a mind disturber -- A very good hustle -- Making it pretty don't help a bit.
520 1 $a"This oral history recounts Townsend's early days as a shoeshiner fronting for a bootlegging operation, his passion for the guitar, and his collaborations and friendships with many of the musicians and entrepreneurs who shaped the blues scene in St. Louis.
520 8 $aThrough Townsend's easy reminiscences, the guitarist Lonnie Johnson, the pianists Walter Davis and Roosevelt Sykes, and the promoter Jessie Johnson come vividly to life, along with scores of other individuals both remembered and forgotten who left their mark on a key musical genre."--BOOK JACKET.
520 8 $a"Touching on important social aspects of St. Louis life, from racism and police harassment to honky-tonk speakeasies, A Blues Life offers a personal and often moving commentary on music and culture in the city. Townsend recounts that in the 1920s, St. Louis's Booker Washington Theatre brought in famous acts like Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, and Peg Leg Bates, but very few local blues artists ever appeared there.
520 8 $aWhile middle-class blacks regarded jazz as on the border of respectability, the blues were far over the line, and especially the raw, "gut bucket style blues" that Townsend says set St. Louis blues apart from the styles developing in Chicago, Kansas City, and Mississippi."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aTownsend, Henry.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85269852
650 0 $aGuitarists$zMissouri$zSaint Louis$vBiography.
650 0 $aBlues musicians$zMissouri$zSaint Louis$vBiography.
700 1 $aGreensmith, Bill,$d1949-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n99017393
830 0 $aMusic in American life.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n42017239
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