Blues All Day Long: The Jimmy Rogers Story (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780252080173)

A member of Muddy Waters' legendary late 1940s-1950s band, Jimmy Rogers pioneered a blues guitar style that made him one of the most revered sidemen of all time. Rogers also had a significant if star-crossed career as a singer and solo artist for Chess Records, releasing the classic singles "That's All Right" and "Walking By Myself."

In Blues All Day Long, Wayne Everett Goins mines seventy-five hours of interviews with Rogers' family, collaborators, and peers to follow a life spent in the blues. Goins' account takes Rogers from recording Chess classics and barnstorming across the South to a late-in-life renaissance that included new music, entry into the Blues Hall of Fame, and high profile tours with Eric Clapton and the Rolling Stones. Informed and definitive, Blues All Day Long fills a gap in twentieth century music history with the story of one of the blues' eminent figures and one of the genre's seminal bands.

Author: Wayne Everett Goins
ISBN-10: 0252080173
ISBN-13: 9780252080173
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Language: English
Published: 08/30/2014
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.64lbs
Size: 9.38h x 6.23w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 06/01/2014 pg. 20
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2014

About the Author
Wayne Everett Goins is a professor of music and director of jazz at Kansas State University. He is the author of Pat Metheny's Secret Story and co-author of Charlie Christian: Jazz Guitar's King of Swing.