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Ash Grove (folk club), 98–100, 168, 197

Austin City Limits (television program), 211

Autobiography in Blues (recording), 88

“Automobile Blues,” 110

“Baby, Please Don’t Go,” 50, 100, 143–44

“Bad Boogie,” 65. See also “My Little Kewpie Doll”

Badeaux, Ed, 79, 91

“Bad Luck and Trouble,” 75

Baez, Joan, 104, 110, 156

Bailey, Donald, 210

Balatony, Krista, 157–59

Balfour, Alan, 142

Barbee, John Henry, 141

Bartlett, John David, 185–86, 232

baseball, 21

Bates, Alan, 300n52

Bates, Frank, 3

“Begging You to Stay,” 58

Bell, Carey, 222

Bell, Rex “Wrecks,” xiii, 219

Belushi, John, 218

Benno, Marc, 213, 215

Benson, David, xiii, 115, 200–2, 204,

206–10, 212, 215–17, 219–20, 222,

224–29, 232, 236; and

“Emmett Till complex,” 211

Berendt, Joachim, 141

Berkeley Folk Festival, 97–98

Berlin, Irving, 104

Berry, Chuck, 67

“Better Watch Yourself,” 310n89. See also “Stop Drinking”

“Big Mama Jump,” 47

Bihari brothers, 48; and Joe Bihari, 66

Bishop, Elvin, 67

Bizor, Billy, 27, 123, 125, 158, 163–64, 178, 180, 184–85

“Black Cat,” 58

“Black Cat Bone,” 114

“Black Gal What Makes Your Head So Hard,” 35

“Black Hannah,” 136

Black Orpheus (film), 159

black vaudeville, 22–23

Blanchard, Carolyn, 34

Blank, Les, x, 174–78, 180, 235

Bleyer, Archie, 110

blues, 82, 94, 236; blues singers, romanticizing of, 84; and jazz, 69–70, 95; in New York, 133;

popularity of, 57, 60

The Blues According to Lightnin’

Hopkins (film), xi, 42, 178–80, 233

The Blues in East Texas (recording), 92

Blues in My Bottle (recording), 117

“Blues in My Mind,” 26

“Blues for Queen Elizabeth,” 87–88

blues revival, 95, 128–29; as

romantic movement, 96

Bluesville Records, 107, 300n44

“Boar Hog Blues,” 25–26, 29–30

Boicel, Doudou, 205–6, 221

Bond, Jimmy, 149

Bonner, Weldon “Juke Boy,” 216, 232

Booker, James, 208

bootlegging, 25

Box, Anna Mae, xiii, 16, 28, 38–39, 224–25, 227–29

Box, Bertha, 224–25

Bradley, Andy, 51

Bramhall, Doyle, 43, 213–15

Braverman, Jack, 64

Brians, Robin Hood, 149–50

Bromberg, Bruce, 189

Broonzy, Big Bill, 30, 41, 56, 70, 79, 84

Broven, John, 112

Brown, Andrew, 96, 98, 119, 126, 293n38

Brown, Buster, 131

Brown, Danny, 213

Brown, “Texas” Johnny, 40, 50, 53, 59, 62, 232

Bruynoghe, Yannick, 117

Bucks, Jabo, 12

“Buddy Brown’s Blues,” 118

“Bud Russell Blues,” 181. See also

“Penitentiary Blues”

Bullock, Dr. Henry Allen, 86

Burks, Pinetop, 32

“Burnin’ in L.A.,” 196

Burton, Aaron, 222–23

Butler, Wild Child, 186–88

Byers, Bill, 81

Bynum, Kyla, 79, 82, 85

Cadena, Ozzie, 107, 109

Cahn, Jesse, 139

Cahn, Rolf, 120

“California Mudslide (and Earthquake),” 189

“California Showers,” 122, 196

Camp Logan, 32

Candid Records, 110

“Can’t Do Like You Used To,” 43

Cantor, Louis, 66

Carroll, Fred, 185

Carson, Fiddlin’ John, 7

“Cemetery Blues,” 63

Centerville (Texas), 1, 13, 179–80

Chambers, Joe, 100

Charles, Antoinette, xi, xiii, 90–91, 93, 109, 113, 118–19, 124, 128, 144, 153–54, 160, 163, 165–66, 169–70, 172, 175, 183, 188, 194, 197, 200, 202, 207, 216, 220, 222, 224–29, 231

Charles, Leonard, 202

Charters, Ann, 70

Charters, Samuel, 42, 69, 78, 83–84, 92–93, 95, 126–28, 146, 157, 203–4, 235, 298n64; and Lightnin’ Hopkins, 70–76, 81–82; undermining of, by Mack

McCormick, 90–91

Chatman, Bo, 23

Chatman, Sam, 23

Chenier, Cleveland, 90, 119, 137, 169, 179

Chenier, Clifton, 90, 119, 169, 218, 221, 302–3n11

“Chicken Minnie,” 305n12

Chitlin’ Circuit, 23, 57

Choates, Harry, 46, 57

civil rights movement, 133

Clancy Brothers, 298n53; with Tommy Makem, 104

Clay, Francis, 191

Clearwater, Eddie, 222

“Coffee Blues,” 59, 61, 116

Cohen, David, 195

Cohn, Lawrence, 130

Collins, Albert, 228, 232

“Come Go with Me,” 75

“Come On, Baby, Come Home with Me,” 144

Connors, B. J., 97

“Contrary Mary,” 71

“Conversation Blues,” 109

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