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Meet me with your black drawers on : my life in music /

Jeannie Cheatham is a living legend in jazz and blues. A pianist, singer, songwriter, and co-leader of the Sweet Baby Blues Band, she has played and sung with many of the greats in blues and jazz - T-Bone Walker, Dinah Washington, Cab Callaway, Joe Williams, Al Hibbler, Odetta, and Jimmy Witherspoon...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cheatham, Jeannie (Autor, Actor)
Otros Autores: Cheatham, Jimmy (Actor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2006.
Edición:1st ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue : brand-new blues
  • Back to the 'hood
  • The piano
  • Three visitors
  • Mr. Arthur Reginald Riley
  • Funerals
  • The Reverend Uncle Frank, lessons on men, and finding Jesus
  • The coming of the cold
  • Summer heat
  • Wrong direction
  • The new house
  • It's an ill wind that don't blow somebody some good
  • Yellow cab to the red-light district
  • Junkies and jazz
  • World War II : let the good times roll
  • Just get on the greyhound, girl
  • The Evans exodus
  • Jailhouse blues
  • From hell to heaven blues
  • Snowbound
  • The song of the Colvinaires
  • New baby blues
  • A blizzard of birdshit
  • The colors of many changes
  • Triumph, tragedy, turmoil, and tenor players
  • A little love song
  • Little Mattie, big mama, and the beautiful Miss M
  • The blues and the Buffalo scuffle
  • Escape from Buffalo
  • New York City, ditty-wah-ditty
  • Fatback
  • Bronx gulag and agoraphobia
  • The light shineth in the darkness
  • From hell to academia
  • Welcome to Wisconsin
  • On the move in Madison
  • Movin' an' moanin', groovin' an' groanin' in Madison
  • The way west
  • Pipe dreamin' in the valley of smoke
  • A standing O in San Diego
  • Take it!
  • Beelzebub and the mad Mexican
  • Make a joyful noise!
  • New mule kickin' in our stall
  • Blues on the omnibus
  • Blow out at the Belly Up Tavern and the birth of three
  • Generations of the blues
  • Mr. Jefferson comes to town
  • The birth of the Sweet Baby Blues Band
  • Hot bulbs and hot flashes
  • Sturm und drang blues : Vienne, France
  • Shoofly pie with Shafafa in the Hague
  • Chickenshit or chicken salad?
  • How long?
  • Effluvia and euphoria
  • From slavery to the White House
  • Tears of sorrow
  • Blues like Jay McShann
  • Abc : around the world, beyond betrayal, celebrations
  • Livin' in the nineties
  • Making history in a small hotel
  • Back to Bina Avenue.
  • Compact disc contents: Meet me with your black drawers on
  • Big fat daddy
  • How long blues
  • C.C. Rider
  • Take the wrinkles out your birthday suit
  • Messin' round with the boogie.