Been Here and Gone: A Memoir of the Blues - Hardcover

Dalton, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0380976765 ISBN 13: 9780380976768

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 2000

Synopsis

Coley Williams, a 102-year-old bluesman, depicts the cultural side of twentieth-century America as he experienced it, recalling his encounters with such figures as Blind Lemon Jefferson, T-Bone Walker, B. B. King, and the young Elvis Presley.

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Synopsis:

Born on the Delta plantations over 100 years ago, Coley Williams grows up with voodoo spirits singing all night long. He travels the railroads with his guitar on his back; here's when Robert Johnson's pact with the Devil catches up with him in a jar of whiskey poison. He sees Blind Lemon Jefferson playing his own peculiar game of blind man's buff in a Texas cathouse, he drinks with Howling Wolf and Muddy Waters in Chicago, and Elvis in Memphis. He even makes it to London, where he hangs out with "a couple of skinny litle English boys" called Mick and Keith. This novel is a heartfelt tribute to the people and places of the Blues.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0380976765
• ISBN 13: 9780380976768
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 432