100 Classic Blues Anniversaries: BETWEEN HEAVEN AND HELL – Manuel López Poy

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Existences on the edge, marked by difficult childhoods, lives cornered by poverty and racism. Biographies of women and men who drank life in gulps, who traveled the hardest roads, inhabited the most dangerous dives. sordid and delved into the depths of the human soul to create the so-called devil's music.

Bootleggers, vagrants, prostitutes, gamblers, talent scouts, street musicians, pimps, convicts, farmers, dandies, chorus girls, preachers, singing divas, movie stars, hustlers, unsuccessful winners, poets and geniuses, all cross paths on the road that leads from the most miserable huts from the deep Mississippi to the luminaries of the clubs of Chicago or New York.

Ordered chronologically from their date of birth, each profile is linked to the historical moments that marked their lives because, in some way, we are all a little bit what we are because we live in the times we do.

Profusely illustrated