Book Club – Father of the Blues

W. C. Handy’s blues – “Memphis Blues,” “Beale Street Blues,” “St. Louis Blues” – changed America’s music forever. Handy’s remarkable tale-pervaded with his unique personality and humor-reveals not only the career of the man who brought the blues to the world’s attention, but the whole scope of American music, from the days of the old popular songs of the South, through ragtime to the great era of jazz.