John and Robin Dickson Series in Texas Music, sponsored by the Center for Texas Music History, Texas State University: Texas Blues : The Rise of a Contemporary Sound (Hardcover)

Texas Blues allows artists to speak in their own words, revealing the dynamics of blues, from its beginnings in cotton fields and shotgun shacks to its migration across boundaries of age and race to seize the musical imagination of the entire world.

Fully illustrated with 495 dramatic, high-quality color and black-and-white photographs--many never before published--Texas Blues provides comprehensive and authoritative documentation of a musical tradition that has changed contemporary music.