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Author Cheatham, Jeannie. Author. Performer.

Title Meet me with your black drawers on [electronic resource] : my life in music / by Jeannie Cheatham.

Imprint Austin : University of Texas Press, 2006.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description xvii, 414 p. : ill.
Contents 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.
Compact disc contents: Meet me with your black drawers on -- Big fat daddy -- How long blues -- C.C. Rider -- Take the wrinkles out your birthday suit -- Messin' round with the boogie.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Cheatham, Jeannie.
Singers -- United States -- Biography.
African American women jazz singers -- Biography.
Women blues musicians -- United States -- Biography.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Cheatham, Jimmy. Performer.
ProQuest (Firm)
Note Title of accompanying compact disc: Jeannie & Jimmy Cheatham sampler : from the Concord jazz heritage series
ISBN 0292712936 (hdbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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