Bibliograph

Meet me with your black drawers on, my life in music, by Jeannie Cheatham

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Meet me with your black drawers on, my life in music, by Jeannie Cheatham

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Meet me with your black drawers on

Responsibility statement

by Jeannie Cheatham

Sub title

my life in music

Table Of Contents

Prologue : brand-new blues -- Back to the 'hood -- The piano -- Three visitors -- Mr. Arthur Reginald Riley -- Funerals -- The Reverend Uncle Frank, lessons on men, and finding Jesus -- The coming of the cold -- Summer heat -- Wrong direction -- The new house -- It's an ill wind that don't blow somebody some good -- Yellow cab to the red-light district -- Junkies and jazz -- World War II : let the good times roll -- Just get on the greyhound, girl -- The Evans exodus -- Jailhouse blues -- From hell to heaven blues -- Snowbound -- The song of the Colvinaires -- New baby blues -- A blizzard of birdshit -- The colors of many changes -- Triumph, tragedy, turmoil, and tenor players -- A little love song -- Little Mattie, big mama, and the beautiful Miss M -- The blues and the Buffalo scuffle -- Escape from Buffalo -- New York City, ditty-wah-ditty -- Fatback -- Bronx gulag and agoraphobia -- The light shineth in the darkness -- From hell to academia -- Welcome to Wisconsin -- On the move in Madison -- Movin' an' moanin', groovin' an' groanin' in Madison -- The way west -- Pipe dreamin' in the valley of smoke -- A standing O in San Diego -- Take it! -- Beelzebub and the mad Mexican -- Make a joyful noise! -- New mule kickin' in our stall -- Blues on the omnibus -- Blow out at the Belly Up Tavern and the birth of three -- Generations of the blues -- Mr. Jefferson comes to town -- The birth of the Sweet Baby Blues Band -- Hot bulbs and hot flashes -- Sturm und drang blues : Vienne, France -- Shoofly pie with Shafafa in the Hague -- Chickenshit or chicken salad? -- How long? -- Effluvia and euphoria -- From slavery to the White House -- Tears of sorrow -- Blues like Jay McShann -- Abc : around the world, beyond betrayal, celebrations -- Livin' in the nineties -- Making history in a small hotel -- Back to Bina AvenueCompact disc contents: Meet me with your black drawers on -- Big fat daddy -- How long blues -- C.C. Rider -- Take the wrinkles out your birthday suit -- Messin' round with the boogie

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Jeannie & Jimmy Cheatham sampler, from the Concord jazz heritage series

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