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Soft cover. Etat : As New. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in As New condition. "Feeling Good About Feeling Bad. Down on your luck? Lost your job? Your steady? Your money? You should be singing the blues. Or are you in love? Prospering? Enjoying the feel of the open road? You can sing the blues about good times, too. Blues is more than just music--it's a way of life, and blues singers are its philosopher kings: Rabbit Brown on Bad Luck: 'I done seen better days, but I'm putting up with these.' Bumble Bee Slim on Life: 'It don't pay nobody to live this life fast. Just take it slow and easy as long as it will last.' LITTLE BLUES BOOK is a funky celebration of America's troubadours in the court of hard knocks. With everything from instructions on how to write your own blues song to a chronicle of infamous blues deaths, LITTLE BLUES BOOK has a rhyme, a face, and a word of advice for just about everything life has to offer." [publisher copy] "In his LITTLE BLUES BOOK, Texas musician Brian 'King Bee' Robertson retells the legends, and recalls the lyrics, of Son House, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Muddy Waters and other blues greats. Combining thumbnail sketches, quotations from various bluesmen and illustrations by R. Crumb, this primer sets out with unabashed nostalgia to win the blues a new generation of devotees."--Publishers Weekly. "A fun book that every single solitary blues fan must have."--Long Star Music Magazine. Handy little paperback w/sharp corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding w/no creases in spine.