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Something About the Blues (Book & CD)
Al Young
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November 2007
On Sale: April 24, 2008
200 pages ISBN: 1402210647 EAN: 9781402210648 Hardcover
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Multicultural African-American
Like Harlem renaissance poet Langston Hughes, who first
popularized the blues as a poetic form, California Poet
Laureate Al Young has written about the blues, played the
blues and drawn inspiration from the blues. Something About the Blues uses the blues as a theme
throughout 100 new and previously-published poems.
Selections evoke the cold, hard city, love gone wrong and
blues music itself, with tributes to Ma Rainey, Lena Horne
and other notable performers. Something About the Blues includes an audio CD with Al
Youngs dynamic, soulful readings of more than 20 of the
poems from the book, plus Langston Hughes reading of his
classic The Weary Blues. Many of Youngs performances
feature a live blues band.
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