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- The Year of the Blues reaches fever pitch in fall 2003 with the theatrical release (and airing on PBS) of seven documentary films, each by a noted feature director (Martin Scorsese, Wim Wenders, Charles Burnett, Mike Figgis, and Clint Eastwood among them) and the release on CD of several major new blues compilations.- Peter Guralnick, celebrated for his bestselling two-volume biography of Elvis Presley, Last Train to Memphis and Careless Love, is a master of narrative who knows the world of American roots music better than any other writer.- NIGHTHAWK BLUES was first published in hardcover in 1980 (Seaview Books) and subsequently in paperback (Thunder's Mouth Press). Both editions have long been unavailable.
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About the Author:
Peter Guralnick's books include his prizewinning, two-volume Elvis Presley biography; a widely praised trilogy on the roots of American popular music, comprising Feel Like Going Home, Lost Highway, and Sweet Soul Music; and Searching for Robert Johnson. He lives in Massachusetts.
From Publishers Weekly:
This is the story of Theodore Roosevelt Jefferson, known professionally as the Screaming Nighthawk, a guitarist and blues singer who is growing old with the century. PW found that "the novel catches very honestly the unique flavor of a black musician's life, a kind of melancholy swan song."
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- PublisherSeaview Books
- Publication date1980
- ISBN 10 087223634X
- ISBN 13 9780872236349
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages244
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