FREQUENTLY CITED SOURCES

AMG

All Music Guide to the Blues, 3rd edition, edited by Vladimir Bogdanov, Chris Woodstra, and Stephen Thomas Erlewine (San Francisco: Backbeat Books, 2003)

DGR

Dixon, Robert M.W., John Godrich, and Howard W. Rye. Blues & Gospel Records, 1890–1943. 4th edition. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997.

Gospel Records 1943–1969

Cedric Hayes and Robert Laughton, Gospel Records 1943–1969. 2 volumes. London: Record Information Services, 1993.

Harris

Sheldon Harris, Blues Who’s Who (New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1979) Five editions.

Herzhaft

Ge´rard Herzhaft, Encyclopedia of the Blues (Fayetteville AR: University of Arkansas Press, 1992); an English language edition of his Encyclope´die du Blues (Lyon: Federop, 1979; Paris: Seghers, 1990). An enlarged French edition, La Grande Encyclope´die du Blues, was published by Editions Fayard in 1997.

Larkin

Colin Larkin, The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, 3rd edition (London; New York: Muze, 1998), 8 volumes.

Lord

Tom Lord, The Jazz Discography. 26 volumes. Vancouver, BC; Redwood, NY: Lord Music Reference/Cadence Jazz Books, 1992–2002.

LSFP

Mike Leadbitter, Neil Slaven, Les Fancourt, and Paul Pelletieir, compilers. Blues Records 1943–1970. 2 volumes. A Selective Discography: vol. 1: A–K (London: Record Information Services, 1987); ‘‘The Bible of the Blues’’: vol. 2: L–Z (Record Information Services, 1994).

McGrath

Bob McGrath, The R&B Indies. 2 volumes. West Vancouver, BC: Eyeball, 2000.

New Grove Jazz

Barry Kernfeld, editor, The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition, two volumes, London: Macmillan; New York: Grove’s Dictionaries, 2002.

Santelli

Robert Santelli, The Big Book of Blues: A Biographical Encyclopedia (New York: Penguin, 1993).

Southern

Eileen Southern, Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American and African Musicians (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1982).

Sutton

Sutton, Allan. American Record Labels and Companies, An Encyclopedia. Denver, CO: Mainspring Press, 2000.

Whitburn

Whitburn, Joel. Billboard Top R&B Singles 1942–1999. Menomonee Falls, WI: Record Research, Inc., 2000.