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Pickwick Records, 146

Plessy v. Ferguson, 32

Point, Michael, 217

“Policy Game,” 63

Pollock, Mark, 212

“Polo Blues,” 27

Pope, Kay, 144

Poppy Records, 190–91

Porper, Howard, 69

“Prairie Dog Hole,” 27

Prestige/Bluesville Records, 117, 126–27, 146, 151, 201, 229–30

Price, Sam, 23

Puckett, Riley, 7

Pullum, Joe, 53

Quinn, Bill, 45–46, 48–52, 54, 56–59, 69, 91, 119, 152, 293n38, 294n46, 295n59, 295n61, 301n82

race records, 48, 115, 294n52

Racine, Marty, 226–27

radio: African Americans, targeting of, 66

Rainey, Ma, 133

Ramey, Ben, 79, 81

Ramsey, Frederic, 70, 73

Rau, Fritz, 135, 147

Real Jazz (Panassie), 70

Reconstruction, 3

“Reminiscences of Blind Lemon,” 75–76

Robertson, Eck, 7

Robey, Don, 52

Robinson, Bobby, 112–14, 130–31, 201

Robinson, Clyde, 28

Robinson, Frank, xiii, 28

Rochon, Lonnie, 53

rock ‘n’ roll, 67, 82

“Rocky Mountain Blues,” 43–44, 108, 239. See also “I Can’t Stay

Here in Your Town”

Rogers, Larry, 213, 215

Rogers, Lelan, 184–85, 187

Ronn Records, 186

The Rooster Crowed in England (recording), 87, 89, 240

Rotante, Anthony, 95, 152, 237

Rowe, Mike, 152

Royal Amalgamated Association of Chitterling Eaters of America, 295n73

Rubenstein, Mansel, 153, 184

Russell, Tony, 152

Sanborn, Frank, 46

Santa Fe Group, 32–33

Schilthuis, Laurence, 239

Schuller, Tim “Mit,” 215

Score Records, 115

Scott, Frank, 151

Sebastian, John, 110, 300n51

“Section Gang Blues,” 25

Seeger, Mike, 114

Seeger, Pete, 79, 85, 104–5, 115, 296n23

“See That My Grave Is Kept Clean,” 75

“Sellin’ Wine in Arizona,” 191

Serenaders, 13

Shad, Bobby, 58–62, 116, 201

Shaw, Arnold, 59

Shaw, Robert, 32, 188, 211

Sharp, Cecil, 79

Shelton, Robert, 89, 105, 107, 130

“She’s Mine,” 75

Shine, Black Boy, 32

“Shining Moon,” 48, 64, 109

“Short Haired Woman,” ix, 47–50, 81, 89, 107, 115, 136, 142, 150

“Shotgun Blues,” 49, 56

“Sick Feeling Blues (I’m Aching),” 64

Silber, Irwin, 104

Silver, Al, 64

Silverman, Jerry, 104

Sims, Estelle, xi

Sims, Frankie Lee, 29, 55–56, 239

Sing Out! (magazine), 104

Sittin’ In With Records, 58, 62

Skoog, Larry, 41

“Slavery,” 181–82, 234

Smith, Bessie, 14, 55

Smith, Charles Edward, 116

Smith, Wilson “Thunder,” xiv, 41, 43–44, 200

Smokes Like Lightning (recording), 122, 124, 153

Snyder, Robert, 171

“Some Day Baby,” 58

Sometimes I Believe She Loves Me (recording), 139

Sonet Records, 203

songs: as commodity, 60

“So Sorry to Leave You,” 109

Soul Blues (recording), 137, 151

“Spirituals to Swing” concert, 70

square dances, 6–7

Stack, Frank, 80

Starr, Ringo, 173

Steele, Lanny, 205, 221, 308n16

Stewart-Baxter, Derek, 142

Stoneham, Luther, 39, 293n38

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

Story, Zarefah, 114

Strachwitz, Chris, x–xi, 50, 52, 54, 71–72, 76–77, 89, 95, 98, 102–3, 113, 120–22, 131, 133, 135, 136, 138, 140, 147–48, 154, 170, 181, 190–91, 197–98, 230–31, 235, 294n46, 295n59, 301n87

SugarHill Studios, 51, 293n43

“Sugar Mama,” 49

Sumlin, Hubert, 141

Sunnyland Slim, 141

The Sun’s Gonna Shine (film), x–xi, 180

Swank, Sam, ix

Sweatt, Heman, 85

Sweatt v. Painter, 85

“Take It Easy,” 110

Tampa Red, 30, 36, 84

Tanner, Gid, 7

“Tell Me Baby,” 75

Terry, Sonny, 80, 100, 107–9, 147, 210

Texas: African Americans in, viii; baseball in, 21; during Civil War, 2

Texas blues, vii–ix

Texas Blues Man (recording), 184

Texas Blues Society, 151

“That Mean Old Twister,” 80, 81

Theater Owners Booking Association (TOBA), 23, 57

“Thinkin’ ‘bout an Old Friend,” 110

13th Floor Elevators, 184, 186

Thomas, Andy, 293n38

Thomas, Beulah (Sippie Wallace), 33

Thomas, Danny, 184–85

Thomas, George W., 33

Thomas, George W. Jr., 33

Thomas, Henry, 7–8

Thomas, Hersal, 33

Thomas, Marcellus, 181

Thompson, Lurie, 5

Thompson, Sid, 41

Thornton, Big Mama, 218

Thornton, Yank, 54