The National Book Award finalist, Oprah’s Book Club pick, #1 New York Times bestseller and basis for the Oscar-nominated motion picture A recent immigrant from the Middle East—a former colonel in the Iranian Air Force—yearns to ...
San Francisco, 1950: The residents of the Honeysuckle Rose Hotel - musicians all - are a quirky bunch each with their secrets, addictions, sins of their own making, traumatic issues that weigh down upon their shoulders, nightmares from the ...
O.G. Fillmore Slim, known as 'The Godfather, ' 'Pope of the Game,' and the most prolific pimp of all time has had quite the unconventional life.
In this earlier novel he captures a roiling time in American history and the coming-of-age of a boy who must decide between desire, ambition, and duty.
This story, structured like a traditional twelve bar blues song, with three sections each made of four chapters, follows blues musician Lem Taylor's harrowing journey across Arkansas of the late twenties, hunted for a crime he didn't commit ...
Here is the Johnny Winter segment: "The hottest item outside of Janis Joplin, though, still remains in Texas.
Based on the true-to-life experiences of the author growing up on the cotton plantations in Mississippi, this is the story of a young man whose dream was to play, sing and preach the blues.
(Photo: William A. Conn, courtesy of Evelyn Graves) From left to right, Josh Graves, Billy Edwards, and Jimmy Martin during one of Josh's breaks from the Foggy Mountain Boys, February 1963. (Courtesy of Evelyn Graves)
Examines the spiritual, social, and anthropological roots of the blues.
San Francisco, 1950: The residents of the Honeysuckle Rose Hotel - musicians all - are a quirky bunch each with their secrets, addictions, sins of their own making, traumatic issues that weigh down upon their shoulders, nightmares from the ...