Octavo 9" tall, 264 pages with intertextual black and white photo illustration, stiff wraps. A very good, clean, neat soft cover edition overall with light shelf wear, gently read; binding tight, paper cream white.

Publisher's Description:

This study of the blues by one of America's premier essayists and novelists will change old attitudes about a tradition that continues to feed the very heart of popular music--a blues that dances, shakes, shimmies, and exchanges bad news for stomping, rollicking, pulse-quickening good times.