Meet Me with Your Black Drawers On
My Life in Music
- Author: Cheatham, Jeannie
Book
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Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue. Brand-New Blues
- 1. Back to the 'Hood
- 2. The Piano
- 3. Three Visitors
- 4. Mr. Arthur Reginald Riley
- 5. Funerals
- 6. The Reverend Uncle Frank, Lessons on Men, and Finding Jesus
- 7. The Coming of the Cold
- 8. Summer Heat
- 9. Wrong Direction
- 10. The New House
- 11. It's an Ill Wind That Don't Blow Somebody Some Good
- 12. Yellow Cab to the Red-Light District
- 13. Junkies and Jazz
- 14. World War II: Let the Good Times Roll
- 15. Just Get On the Greyhound, Girl
- 16. The Evans Exodus
- 17. Jailhouse Blues
- 18. From Hell to Heaven Blues
- 19. Snowbound
- 20. The Song of the Colvinaires
- 21. New Baby Blues
- 22. A Blizzard of Birdshit
- 23. The Colors of Many Changes
- 24. Triumph, Tragedy, Turmoil, and Tenor Players
- 25. A Little Love Song
- 26. Little Mattie, Big Mama, and the Beautiful Miss M
- 27. The Blues and the Buffalo Scuffle
- 28. Escape from Buffalo
- 29. New York City, Ditty-Wah-Ditty
- 30. Fatback
- 31. Bronx Gulag and Agoraphobia
- 32. The Light Shineth in the Darkness
- 33. From Hell to Academia
- 34. Welcome to Wisconsin
- 35. On the Move in Madison
- 36. Movin' an' Moanin', Groovin' an' Groanin' in Madison
- 37. The Way West
- 38. Pipe Dreamin' in the Valley of Smoke
- 39. A Standing O in San Diego
- 40. Take It!
- 41. Beelzebub and the Mad Mexican
- 42. Make a Joyful Noise!
- 43. New Mule Kickin' in Our Stall
- 44. Blues on the Omnibus
- 45. Blow Out at the Belly Up Tavern and the Birth of Three Generations of the Blues
- 46. Mr. Jefferson Comes to Town
- 47. The Birth of the Sweet Baby Blues Band
- 48. Hot Bulbs and Hot Flashes
- 49. Sturm und Drang Blues: Vienne, France
- 50. Shoofly Pie with Shafafa in The Hague
- 51. Chickenshit or Chicken Salad?
- 52. How Long?
- 53. Effluvia and Euphoria
- 54. From Slavery to the White House
- 55. Tears of Sorrow
- 56. Blues like Jay McShann
- 57. ABC: Around the World, Beyond Betrayal, Celebrations
- 58. Livin' in the Nineties
- 59. Making History in a Small Hotel
- 60. Back to Bina Avenue