
Featuring highlights from Chicago blues photographer Jennifer Noble's extensive colour collection and interviews with 30 contemporary women in the blues now plus an overview of 25 pioneers - the unsung Blueswomen at the dawn of the blues. Women have been at the dawn of the blues...

Women have been at the dawn of the blues since Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey were singing about hard knocks and tough love in smoky bars. This book gives an overview of the early days of the blues and its development from the Mississippi Delta to the windy city, Chicago, to becoming...