Blind Singer Joe's Blues (First Edition)

Taylor, Robert Love

ISBN 10: 0870745115 / ISBN 13: 9780870745119

Published by Southern Methodist University Press, Dallas, 2006

About this Item

First edition. First printing (with full number line including 1). Hardbound. Near Fine in a fine jacket. A clean tight copy. Slight spine slant. Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Blind Singer Joe's Blues (First Edition)
• Publisher: Southern Methodist University Press, Dallas
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0870745115
• ISBN 13: 9780870745119
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

Hannah Ruth Bayless has a gift: she can sing. A woman of her time and place - early twentieth-century Appalachia - she has many other conflicting claims, chief of which are a handsome but unknowable husband and a blind son. Her story unfolds at a time when radio and the recording industry were discovering a rich source of music in the southern mountains. The music itself, the old ballads and fiddle tunes played for generations, was, like Hannah Ruth, her fiddling partner Pink Miracle, and eventually her son Singer Joe, shaped and reshaped, influenced by the growing exposure to rural and urban blues, ragtime, jazz, gospel, popular, and even classical music. The musicians themselves are constantly shaped by their relation not only to their music but to other people. Living in a dazzling and sometimes frightening present, they are chased by a shimmering and seductive past.

About the Authors

Robert Love Taylor taught creative writing and Appalachian literature at Bucknell University.

For over three decades ROBERT LOVE TAYLOR taught creative writing and Appalachian literature at Bucknell University. He is the author of two collections of linked stories and two other novels. His short fiction has appeared in such venues asGeorgia Review, Southern Review, and Southwest Review, and in Best American Short Stories, theO. Henry Awards, and the Pushcart Prize anthology. A passionate old-time fiddler, he plays with the Buck Mountain Band in Virginia and North Carolina. He grew up in Oklahoma City and now lives in southwestern Virginia.