Woke Up This Mornin': Poetry of the Blues

Item

Title

Woke Up This Mornin': Poetry of the Blues

This edition

"Woke Up This Mornin': Poetry of the Blues". Ed. A. X. Nicholas. New York: Bantam, 1973. 122 pp.

Table of contents

Good mornin' blues ; Red cross sto' ; The bourgeois blues / Leadbelly -- Don't fish in my sea ; Hustlin' blues ; Countin' the blues / Ma Rainey -- High water everywhere part I, part II ; Bird nest bound ; High sheriff blues / Charlie Patton -- That crawlin' baby blues ; Prison cell blues ; Hangman's blues / Blind Lemon Jefferson -- In the house of blues ; St. Louis blues ; Backwater blues -- When will I get to be called a man ; Plough-hand blues ; Looking up at down / Big Bill Broonzy -- Preachin' blues part II ; Pony blues ; Dead letter blues / Son House -- Hard time killin' floor blues ; Devil got my woman ; Cypress grove blues / Skip James -- Midnight hour blues ; Blues before sunrise ; Big four blues / Leroy Carr -- Army blues ; Parchman farm blues ; Fixin' to die / Bukka White -- Worried about my baby ; How many more years ; Poor boy / Howlin' Wolf -- Long gone like a turkey through the corn (Long John) ; Backwater blues (That mean old twister) ; War news blues / Lightnin' Hopkins -- Crossroad blues ; Stones in my passway ; Hellbound on my trail / Robert Johnson -- You can't lose what you ain't never had ; You gonna need my help ; Louisiana blues / Muddy Waters -- Tupelo ; Kick hit 4 hit kix u (Blues for Jimi and Janis) ; I don't wanna go to Vietnam / John Lee Hooker -- Sweet sixteen ; Chains and things ; Why I sing the blues / B.B. King.

Cited in


• [not in Kinnamon 1997]

Item Number

A0194

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