Bobby -Blue- Bland's silky smooth vocal style and captivating live performances helped propel the blues out of Delta juke joints and into urban clubs and upscale theaters. Until now, his story has never been told in a book-length biography.
Soul of the Man: Bobby -Blue- Bland relates how Bland, along with longtime friend B. B. King, and other members of the loosely knit group who called themselves the Beale Streeters, forged a new electrified blues style in Memphis in the early 1950s. Combining elements of Delta blues, southern gospel, big-band jazz, and country and western...
Bobby -Blue- Bland's silky smooth vocal style and captivating live performances helped propel the blues out of Delta juke joints and into urban clu...
Most towns have their secrets. In the 1930s, Port St. Joe has more than its share. Old Doc Berber, Port St. Joe s only general practitioner, thought he knew all the secrets of the sleepy town in Florida s panhandle. But a grisly murder out at the Cape San Blas Lighthouse drags him into a series of intrigues that even he can t diagnose.
Fortunately, the wise old doctor has an even wiser housekeeper, the industrious Jewel Jackson, who has a magic touch in the kitchen and an old Southern saying for every situation and has tabs on everything that s going on in town through the furtive...
Most towns have their secrets. In the 1930s, Port St. Joe has more than its share. Old Doc Berber, Port St. Joe s only general practitioner, thought h...
In the second installment of the Secrets trilogy, things are not always as serene as they seem in the little Florida Panhandle village of Port St. Joe. When bluesman Reggie Robinson is wrongly arrested for the gruesome murder of Sheriff Byrd Dog Batson, old Doc Berber mounts a Quixotic search for the real killer on savage St. Vincent Island. If he survives the frightening adventure, he ll return with shocking secrets that will shatter the town s tranquility forever."
In the second installment of the Secrets trilogy, things are not always as serene as they seem in the little Florida Panhandle village of Port St. Joe...
