Been Here and Gone: a Memoir of the Blues
- List Price: $25.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: William Morrow & Company
- Publish date: 05/01/2000
Description:
A highly personal panorama of the twentieth century as seen and experienced by one of the most remarkable fictional characters in recent literature: 102-year-old bluesman Coley Williams. It is at once a wildly inventive epic, a heartfelt testament to the people and places of a vanishing era, and an invaluable contribution to the literature of music and popular culture that will fascinate blues fans, history buffs, and general readers alike.
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Williams's vividly recounted anecdotes introduce us to the pantheon of blues legends whose paths he crossed: Charley Patton, Tommy Johnson, Bessie Smith, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Ma Rainey, T-Bone Walker, Muddy Waters, B.B. King, the immortal Robert Johnson, and even the young Elvis Presley. Raucous, rambunctious, and often downright dangerous, these larger-than-life musicians, singers and all-around rabble-rousers live again in Williams's wonderfully colorful recollections. This is the blues. This is America. This is a masterpiece.
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