Father of the Blues: An Autobiography

by: W. C. Handy; edited by Arna Bontemps; with a foreword by Abbe Niles

Publication date: 1941

Topics: Biography, Blind Musicians

Publisher: Macmillan Company

Collection: aphmigel; medicalheritagelibrary; americana

Digitizing sponsor: American Printing House for the Blind, Inc.

Contributor: American Printing House for the Blind, Inc., M. C. Migel Library

Language: English

Inscribed by W. C. Handy. Handy's Hill -- Songbirds and School Days -- Wilberforce, Wallace and Wanderlust -- Mahara's Minstrel Men -- Work is the Measure of Worth -- Mississippi Mud -- "Pee Wee's," Pimps and Politics -- Memphis Blues - A Bungled Bargain -- St. Louis Blues and Solvent Bank -- Blue Diamonds in the Rough Polished and Mounted -- Mother -- From Beale Street to Broadway -- "Trouble, Trouble, I've Had it All my Days!" -- Peace & Handy - Setting a Pace -- All In - Down and Out -- The Blues Get Glorified -- No Fool No Fun -- Down Memory Lane -- "Way Down South Where the Blues Began" -- ASCAP -- Treasure Island -- Black and White -- World of Tomorrow - God Bless America Compositions, Arrangements and Books