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Meet me with your black drawers on : my life in music
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- Creator
- by Jeannie Cheatham
- Format
- Books; Sound Recordings
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2006
- Physical Details
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- xvii, 414 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm + 1 audio disc (4 3/4 in.)
- ISBNs
- 9780292712935, 0292796099, 0292782683, 9780292796096, 0292712936, 9780292782686
- OCLC
- ocm60839359, ocn648315081
- Prologue : brand-new blues -- Back to the 'hood -- The piano -- Three visitors -- Mr. Arthur Reginald Riley -- Funerals -- The Reverend Uncle Frank, lessons on men, and finding Jesus -- The coming of the cold -- Summer heat -- Wrong direction -- The new house -- It's an ill wind that don't blow somebody some good -- Yellow cab to the red-light district -- Junkies and jazz -- World War II : let the good times roll -- Just get on the greyhound, girl -- The Evans exodus -- Jailhouse blues -- From hell to heaven blues -- Snowbound -- The song of the Colvinaires -- New baby blues -- A blizzard of birdshit -- The colors of many changes -- Triumph, tragedy, turmoil, and tenor players -- A little love song -- Little Mattie, big mama, and the beautiful Miss M -- The blues and the Buffalo scuffle -- Escape from Buffalo -- New York City, ditty-wah-ditty -- Fatback -- Bronx gulag and agoraphobia -- The light shineth in the darkness -- From hell to academia -- Welcome to Wisconsin -- On the move in Madison -- Movin' an' moanin', groovin' an' groanin' in Madison -- The way west -- Pipe dreamin' in the valley of smoke -- A standing O in San Diego -- Take it! -- Beelzebub and the mad Mexican -- Make a joyful noise! -- New mule kickin' in our stall -- Blues on the omnibus -- Blow out at the Belly Up Tavern and the birth of three -- Generations of the blues -- Mr. Jefferson comes to town -- The birth of the Sweet Baby Blues Band -- Hot bulbs and hot flashes -- Sturm und drang blues : Vienne, France -- Shoofly pie with Shafafa in the Hague -- Chickenshit or chicken salad? -- How long? -- Effluvia and euphoria -- From slavery to the White House -- Tears of sorrow -- Blues like Jay McShann -- Abc : around the world, beyond betrayal, celebrations -- Livin' in the nineties -- Making history in a small hotel -- Back to Bina Avenue
- Contents of CD. A Jeannie & Jimmy Cheatham sampler : from the Concord jazz heritage series. Meet me with your blue drawers on (7:28) -- Big fat daddy (2:58) -- How long blues (5:14) -- C.C. Rider (5:53) -- Take the wrinkles out of your birthday suit (5:57) -- Messin' 'round with the boogie (4:23)