Blue Rhythms: Six Lives in Rhythm and Blues
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Somebody has to pay the dues, says La Vern Baker. Here are the remarkable stories of six dazzlingly talented performers who blazed the R & B trail -- the story of the performers' music and also of their struggle against racism and financial exploitation: Ruth Brown and La Vern Baker, two of the most popular female black singers of the 1950s...Little Jimmy Scott, whom Madonna calls the only singer who ever really made her cry...Charles Brown, master...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0252022033
ISBN13:9780252022036
Release Date:May 1996
Publisher:University of Illinois Press
Length:352 Pages
Weight:1.72 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"
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