Martin Scorsese presents the blues: a musical journey

Preface / Martin Scorsese

Foreword / Alex Gibney

Writing About the Blues: The Process / Christopher John Farley

Introductory Note / Peter Guralnick

Century of the Blues / Robert Santelli

"The St. Louis Blues" / W. C. Handy

"We Wear the Mask" / Paul Laurence Dunbar

"Stones in My Passway" / Robert Johnson

"Dream Boogie" / Langston Hughes

"You Know I Love You" / Lau Willie Turner

"Prisoner's Talking Blues" / Robert Pete Williams

Feel Like Going Home / Martin Scorsese

Son House: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning / Christopher John Farley

"Hellhound on My Trail" / Robert Johnson

Blues Avant-Garde / Luc Sante

Levee-Camp Holier / Alan Lomax

Muddy Waters: August 31, 1941 / Robert Gordon

Riff on Reading Sterling Plumpp's Poetry / John Edgar Wideman

Thank God for Robert Johnson / Elmore Leonard

Howlin' Wolf / Greg Tate

Jim Dickinson and His Son Luther on Coming of Age in the North Mississippi Hill Country

Why I Wear My Mojo Hand / Robert Palmer

Ali Farka Toure: Sound Travels / Christopher John Farley

French Talking Blues / Catherine Nedonchelle

Warming by the Devil's Fire / Charles Burnett

Bessie Smith: Who Killed the Empress? / Christopher John Farley

"Ma Rainey" / Sterling Brown

Night With Bessie Smith / Carl Van Vechten

Billie Holiday / Hilton Als

Early Downhome Blues Recordings / Jeff Todd Titon

Let's Get Drunk and Truck: A Guide to the Party Blues / James Marshall

Remembering Robert Johnson / Johnny Shines

Devil's Son-in-Law / Ralph Ellison

Hoboing With Big Joe / David "Honeyboy" Edwards

Little Church / William Faulkner

Down at the Cross / James Baldwin

Redemption Song / W. E. B. Du Bois

"I (Too) Hear America Singing" / Julian Bond

Road to Memphis / Richard Pearce

Furry's Blues / Stanley Booth

Recalling Beale Street in its Glory / Will Shade

Bobby "Blue" Bland: Love Throat of the Blues / Robert Gordon

"The River's Invitation" / Percy Mayfield

On the Road with Louis Armstrong / David Halberstam

Sam Phillips on Gutbucket Blues

Wolf Live in '65 / Robert Palmer

Soul of a Man / Wim Wenders

Visionary Blindness: Blind Lemon Jefferson and Other Vision-impaired Bluesmen / Christopher John Farley

"Blind Willie McTell" / Bob Dylan

Locating Lightnin' / Samuel Charters

Henry Thomas: Our Deepest Look at the Roots / Mack McCormick

Janie and Tea Cake / Zora Neale Hurston

Photographer Peter Amft on J. B. Lenoir

Driving Mr. James / John Szwed

Clifford Antone on Livin' and Lovin' the Blues

Jimmie Vaughan on Being Born into the Blues

Somethin' That Reach Back in Your Life / John Lee Hooker

Godfathers and Sons / Marc Levin

Muddy, Wolf, and Me: Adventures in the Blues Trade / Peter Wolf

Chicago Pep / Robert Palmer

Memphis Minnie and the Cutting Contest / Christopher John Farley

Happy New Year! With Memphis Minnie / Langston Hughes

Big Bill and Studs: A Friendship for the Ages / Studs Terkel and Jeff Scheftel

Chicago Blues, Sixties Style / Samuel Charters

Getting a Hit Blues Record / Willie Dixon and Don Snowdon

And It's Deep, Too / Toure

Between Muddy and the Wolf: Guitarist Hubert Sumlin / Paul Trynka

Me and Big Joe / Michael Bloomfield and S. Summerville

Photographer Peter Amft on Chicago Bluesmen

Buddy Arrives in Chicago

Gift / Paul Oscher

How I Met My Husband / Suzan-Lori Parks

Red, White and Blues / Mike Figgis

Conversation With Eric Clapton / Peter Guralnick

Big Bill Broonzy: Key to the Highway / Christopher John Farley

First Time I Met the Blues / Val Wilmer

Rolling Stones Come Together / Stanley Booth

My Blues Band: The Rolling Stones / Richard Hell

Piano Blues and Beyond / Clint Eastwood

Our Ladies of the Keys: Blues and Gone / Christopher John Farley

On Learning to Play the Blues / Otis Spann

Powerhouse / Eudora Welty

Ray Charles Discovers the Piano / Michael Lydon

Finding Professor Longhair / Jerry Wexler

Dr. John and Joel Dorn on New Orleans Piano Styles

Marcia Ball on Big Easy Blues

Chris Thomas King's Twenty-First-Century Blues / John Swenson

Shemekia Copeland on Her Melting-Pot Blues

My Journey to the Blues / Anthony DeCurtis

Blues is the Blood / David Ritz

Blues: The Footprints of Popular Music / Chuck D

Acknowledgments / Holly George-Warren.