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- Title
- Jawbone's Testimony
- Author
- Yellaboy
- Publisher
- Yellaboy Productions
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798235097230
Jawbone's Testament: A Southern Gothic Bluesman's Confession
by Yellaboy
They called him the Devil's Bluesman - the man who traded his rest for a sound so raw it split light fixtures and set juke joints on fire. *Jawbone's Testament* is the confession he never gave the newspapers: not the crossroads myth of a slick-suited devil and a midnight bargain, but the truer, harder story of a hungry Delta boy who mistook a shortcut for a gift, and paid for it in the only currency that ever really counted - his peace.
From a cigar-box guitar behind a Mississippi shack to the fire at the Blue Front Café, from the endless grind of the Chitlin' Circuit to a Malaco Records contract that felt like chains dressed up as opportunity, Jawbone chases a sound that made him a legend and hollowed him out one note at a time. Then a woman with green eyes walks into a bar in Yazoo City wanting nothing from the myth - and the debt that had ridden shotgun with him for years finally starts to lose its grip.
This is a story about the blues in its oldest, truest sense: not a costume for sadness, but a way of telling the truth without becoming only what happened to you. It's about a man who discovers that the real rebellion against a bargain like his was never going to be some thunderclap reckoning - just the daily, unglamorous choice to walk away, and then to keep choosing it, morning after morning, until an ordinary life became the better song all along.
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About the Author
Yellaboy comes straight outta Yuck Town, where the truth walks with a limp and survival ain't a metaphor. A street prophet turned revolutionary writer, he speaks for the silenced, exposes the system, and puts the empire on trial - page by page.Unpolished. Unapologetic. Unafraid.His works, Street Sermon. Fred Hampton: Unity and Struggle, ain't books they're war cries, sermons for the oppressed, gospel for the unplugged. Inspired by Fred Hampton's vision and sacrifice, Yellaboy writes with fire for the forgotten, building bridges between the block and the battlefield.He's the one you don't hang out with...but damn sure glad he's on your side when the shit goes down.
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