Sweetback Blues The Twelve Bar Tale of South Side Slim
- ISBN-10
- 1458395928
- ISBN-13
- 9781458395924
- Category
- Blues musicians
- Pages
- 582
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011
- Publisher
- Lulu.com
- Author
- Kari Fretham
Description
Beautifully written in twelve bar structure, complete with introductory riffs and turnarounds, this narrative nonfiction echoes the very music it celebrates. The bluesman typically sings his seven-stanza story in first person; likewise, these seven chapters get personal in the distinctive voice of Los Angeles blues veteran, South Side Slim. Over one hundred hours of recorded interviews were transcribed, verified, and distilled into eighty-eight bars, vignettes, of page-turning drama.
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