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100			_aArnold, Billy Boy ; Field, Kim
245		4	_aThe Blues Dream of Billy Boy Arnold _c/ Billy Boy Arnold and Kim Field
250			_a1st ed.
260			_bThe university of chicago press _aChicago _cc2021
300			_axiii, 287 p. _b: ill. (black and white) _c; 24 cm.
490			_aChicago visions and revisions
504			_aindex
520			_aSimply put, Billy Boy Arnold is one of the last men standing from the Chicago blues scene’s raucous heyday. What’s more, unlike most artists in this electrifying melting pot, who were Southern transplants, Arnold―a harmonica master who shared stages with Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, and Howlin’ Wolf, plus a singer and hitmaker in his own right who first recorded the standards “I Wish You Would” and “I Ain’t Got You”―was born right here and has lived nowhere else. This makes his perspective on Chicago blues, its players, and its locales all the rarer and all the more valuable. Arnold has witnessed musical generations come and go, from the decline of prewar country blues to the birth of the electric blues and the worldwide spread of rock and roll. Working here in collaboration with writer and fellow musician Kim Field, he gets it all down. The Blues Dream of Billy Boy Arnold is a remarkably clear-eyed testament to more than eighty years of musical love and creation, from Arnold’s adolescent quest to locate the legendary Sonny Boy Williamson, the story of how he named Bo Diddley Bo Diddley, and the ups and downs of his seven-decade recording career. Arnold’s tale―candidly told with humor, insight, and grit―is one that no fan of modern American music can afford to miss.
650			_aBlues (music)
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