The history of the blues

Coon shouters and titular blues

Blues vaudevillians, jug bands, and medicine show songsters

Delta transcendentalists, Texas troubadours, and East Coast fingerpickers

Robert Johnson's satanic verses

The thirties and forties: rural, urban, and midway between

Leadbelly's black body

Home truths: Muddy, B.B., and the last race labels

Chuck and Elvis, hands-on preservationists, and soul in the biblical sense

Blues connotation/from songsters to soulsters.