Daddy Played the BluesAuthor :
Hardback
Published : Monday 1 July 2019
Description
Packing themselves into an old jalopyâ?"with Daddy, Uncle Vern, and Mama in the front seat and Cassie and her two brothers in the backâ?"they joined the Great Migration from the impoverished Deep South to Chicago, where there was work to be had in the stockyards. Across the kidsâ?T laps lay Daddyâ?Ts prized possession, a six-string guitar. Daddy worked hard to put food on the table, but what he really loved was playing the blues. This evocative tale of the African-American odyssey in search of a better life is also a homage to the uniquely American music that developed from African music and American spirituals, work songs, and folk ballads. In the bookâ?Ts backmatter, Garland relates how he first heard and fell in love with blues music, beginning a lifelong fandom. Portraits and thumbnail biographies of great blues musicians and landmark songs complete this tribute to the great American music and the yearnings that produced it. Fountas & Pinnell Level S
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