Rhythm & The Blues: A Life in American Music

Acknowledgments The Man Time On In Bullshit Alley Window Washer's Blues Roads Of Rhythm A Mother's Kisses Picking Up The Pail Strange Customs Reveille The Postwar Can't-Find-A-Slot About-To-Drop Bebop Happy-Time New York City Blues Diskers, Pubbers, And Cleffers In A Family Way Charting The Atlantic What's Black And Red And Blue All Over? On The Road "Good God, Let Me Touch Ray Charles!" Brother, Brother Need, Greed, And Alan Freed Mr. Disorderly Conduct And The Man From Another Planet "I Came From California To Make Hits" Darin' Notions, Lotions, and Potions—Roots, Fruits, And Snoots The Big Bang! Rashomon At The Oak Room Southern Fried Wicked White Rock Effervescing The Work Jones Soul Men "Listen At Her...Listen At Her!" Boats In The Backyards Miami Vice High Times Masterpieces And Mistakes Swamped "Giving Up" The Second Time Around Changing Sounds Goodbye And Good Luck Sixty Candles "Gotta Serve Somebody" Songbird Riddle Sexual Healing Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay Falling In Love Again Selected Discography Index