Blues Mandolin Man: The Life and Music of Yank Rachell
- ISBN-10
- 1578063345
- ISBN-13
- 9781578063345
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 184
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Publisher
- Univ. Press of Mississippi
- Author
- Richard Congress
Description
In Blues Mandolin Man: The Life and Music of Yank Rachell, Richard Congress delivers the biography of a family man whose playing inspired and energized the likes of David Honeyboy Edwards, Sleepy John Estes, and Henry Townsend. No other biography discusses the mandolin's influence and role in the blues."--BOOK JACKET.
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