books.google.co.uk - From cottonfields to international festivals, from Mamie Smith and her 1920 recording of "Crazy Blues" to such rising young stars as Robert Cray, Jo Louis Walker, and Kenny Neal, the growth of the musical tradition known as "the blues" has been long and varied. Born out of shared uncertainties of the...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Encyclopedia_of_the_blues.html?id=sOKZKESWys0C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareEncyclopedia of the blues