Jackson, Tiffany D.
Summary: "When legendary R&B artist Korey Fields spots Enchanted Jones at an audition, her dreams of being a famous singer take flight. Until Enchanted wakes up with blood on her hands and zero memory of the previous night. Who killed Korey Fields? Before there was a dead body, Enchanted's dreams had turned into a nightmare. Because behind Korey's charm and star power was a controlling dark side. Now...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC JACWaterman, Dick.
Summary: "Between Midnight and Day is the groundbreaking record of Dick Waterman's most important photographs from his unparalleled vintage blues archive. Beginning in 1964 with the rediscovery of legendary Delta blues singer Son House, Dick Waterman established Avalon Productions, the first agency devoted exclusively to managing and promoting blues musicians.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder's Mouth Press 2003
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: 781.643 WATSummary: "Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, folklorist William Ferris toured his home state of Mississippi, documenting the voices of African Americans as they spoke about and performed the diverse musical traditions that form the roots of the blues. This DVD features seven films made by Ferris between 1968 and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EARBolden, Tonya
Summary: "Before there was Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Johnny Cash, there was Sister Rosetta Tharpe. The godmother of rock & roll started as a little girl from Arkansas with music in her air, in her hair, in her bones, wiggling her toes. With a big guitar in hand and a big voice in her soul, she grew into a rock & roll trailblazer in a time when women were rarely seen rocking out."--Front...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "In 1990, commissioned by Dave Stewart of Eurythmics, veteran music film director Robert Mugge and renowned music scholar Robert Palmer ventured deep into the heart of the North Mississippi Hill Country and Mississippi Delta to seek out the best rural blues acts currently working. Starting on Beale Street in Memphis, they headed south to the juke joints, lounges, front porches, and parlors of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC DEEMahin, Michael James
Summary: Presents the life of blues legend Muddy Waters, describing how he persisted with his interest in music despite a lack of encouragement from his family and record producers, leading him to Chicago where he was able to record his unique country blues sound.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MAHHarris, Duchess.
Summary: Aretha Franklin was a legendary singer and activist. Her music helped shape the civil rights movement and inspired many people. Aretha Franklin: Legendary Singer explores her life and legacy. Includes infographics and glossary. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB FRANKLIN HARSummary: This film profiles Chester Burnett, better known as the Howlin' Wolf. It includes an incredible compendium of never-before-seen footage of the Howlin' Wolf.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Sea Productions 2003
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2 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC HOWPinkney Barlow, Charnelle
Summary: "A picture book biography of pioneering guitarist Sister Rosetta Tharpe"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 THASummary: After the release of Jake Blues from prison, he and brother Elwood take their blues band back on the road in an attempt to raise money for the orphanage where they were raised. Havoc ensues as the brothers seek redemption on their 'mission from God.'
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY COMEDY BLUSummary: At 83, Chicago legend Buddy Guy remains the standard-bearer for the blues, an icon determined to see the art form live on long after he's gone. Enter young guitar phenom Quinn Sullivan, who has been mentored by Guy since he was a kid. This stirring documentary, amplified by electrifying musical performances, charts the guidance Guy himself received from the likes of Muddy Waters and Howlin'...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC TORReif, Fred
Summary: "Sometimes, the seemingly most insignificant gestures can lead to life enhancing events ... That's what happened over 50 years ago when I met Fred Reif. We were five young strangers who came together to form a 'Jug Band' for a few laughs at some parties ... or, hopefully, get a gig at the new and growing 'Coffee House; venues where Folk Music was usually featured. We presented Fred with a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fred Reif 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.643 REISummary: Robert Palmer, author of Deep Blues, and Dave Stewart, a member of Eurythmics, pay tribute to the Mississippi blues and various blues artists. Special features include performance footage outtakes and 45 minutes of bonus audio tracks.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Keil, Kenny
Summary: Four friends are dreaming of boy band stardom in this New Jack Swing-inspired story about fame, friendship, and why all that glitters isn't double platinum.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: ONI Press 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 KEISummary: It takes the audience on a musical journey through the swamps of the Louisiana Bayou, the juke joints of the Mississippi Delta and Moonshine soaked BBQs in the North Mississippi Hill Country. The film visits blues musicians rooted in the genre's heyday, many in their '80s, still living in the American deep south and touring the Chitlin' Circuit.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC ISummary: It explores the life, times and music of piano legend James Booker, who Dr. John described as 'the best black, gay, one-eyed junkie piano genius New Orleans has ever produced.' Lily Keber's roller coaster portrait traces Booker's life from his early years as a chart-topping child prodigy, to his star-studded years touring and playing as a sideman, through his outrageous solo career in America...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC BAYGolio, Gary
Summary: "The story of Blind Willie Johnson--the legendary Texas musician whose song "Dark Was the Night" was included on the Voyager I space probe's Golden Record"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 JOHPaul, Alan
Summary: The first definitive biography of guitar legend Stevie Ray Vaughan, with an Epilogue by Jimmie Vaughan, Foreword by drummer Chris Layton, and Aterword by bassist Tommy Shannon. Despite the cinematic scope of Vaughan's life and death, there has never been a truly proper accounting of his story--until now.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Lauterbach, Preston.
Summary: A definitive account of the birth of rock 'n' roll in black America...The Chitlin' Circuit brings us into the sweaty back rooms where such stars as James Brown, B. B. King, and Little Richard got their start.--Amazon.com
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.66 LAUDavis, Dana
Summary: Dylan and Langston used to be best friends. After he moved away, Langston became a star R&B artist. He returns for visit and stays with Dylan and her family. They start to renew their friendship--and maybe see their relationship grow into something else.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Skyscape 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DAVCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC DAVSoria, Gabriel.
Summary: "A meditation on music, race, obsession, and how far someone will go to see their vision become real, Murder Ballads follows the fall and reinvention of Nate Theodore, the dead-broke and deadbeat owner of a failed record label who is on a cross-country drive in the dead of winter with his wife Mary, fleeing the wreckage of their business and heading towards the destruction of their marriage....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Z2 Comics 2017
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SORSummary: Blues and folk singer Karen Dalton was a prominent figure in 1960s New York. Idolized by Bob Dylan and Nick Cave, Karen discarded the traditional trappings of success and led an unconventional life until her early death. Since most images of Karen have been lost or destroyed, the film uses Karen₂s dulcet melodies and interviews with loved ones to build a rich portrait of this singular woman and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC KARMcCormick, Mack
Summary: When blues master Robert Johnson's little-known recordings were rereleased to great fanfare in the 1960s, little was known about his life, giving rise to legends that he gained success by selling his soul to the devil. McCormick searched to uncover Johnson's life story, from the late 1960s until his own death in 2015. Here McCormick's manuscript is published for the first time, including...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2023