(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best blues music books

https://www.amazon.com/Portrait-Blues-Paul-Trynka/dp/0306807793

Ok, as culled from B&GR:


Victor & Bluebird

• Feb/March '27 - Memphis - Memphis Jug band, Sadie McKinney, Sister Morgan, A.C & Blind Mamie Forehand, Sadie James, Baby Moore, Rev. E.D Campbell, Williamson's Beale Street Frolic Orchestra, Ollie Rupert
  
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• July-August '27 - Bristol, Tenn - Johnson Brothers, El Watson
  
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• Jan-Feb 1928 - Memphis - Jim Jackson, Cannon's Jug Stompers, Lonnire McIntorsh, Harris and Harris, Douglas Williams, Memphis Jug Band, Frank Stokes, Rosie Mae Moore, Tommy Johnson, Ishman Bracey, Elder Richard Bryant, Arthur Petties
  
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• Sep-Nov 1929 - Memphis - Jim Jackson, Furry Lewis, Frank Stokes, Bessie Tucker, Ida May Mack, K.D Johnson, Ishman Bracey, Tommy Johnson, Douglas Williams, Charlie Kyle, Cannon's Jug Stompers, Robert Wilkins, Memphis Jug Band, Elder Richard Bryant, Rev. Sutton Griggs, Bethel Quartet, REv. E.S Moore, Will Shade.
  
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• Aug-Nov 1928 - Bristol, Tenn - Tarter & Gay
  
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• Sep-Nov 1929 - Memphis - Memphis Jug Band, John Estes, Minnie Wallace, Frank Stokes, Hattie Hart, Douglas Williams, Mel Parker, James Rachel, Dixie Nolan-Johnny Hardge, Blind Clyde Church, Elder Tarleton Roberts, Cannon's Jug Stompers, Memphis Sanctified Singers, Noah Lewis.
  
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• May-June 1930 - Memphis - Memphis Jug Band, John Estes,. Gitfiddle Jim (Kokomo Arnold), Jimmie davis, Shreveport Home Wreckers, Memphis Pullman Porter's Chorus, McCoy & Johnson, Washington ( Booker 'Bukka') White, Rev. M.H Holt, McIntorsh & Ewing, Kaiser Clifton, Bessemer Melody Boys, Douglas Williams, Jimmie Lunceford & His Chickasaw Syncopators
  
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• Nov 1930 - Memphis - Josephine Jones, Alice Melvin, Willie Kelly, Memphis Jug Band, Cannon's Jug Stompers, Blind Willie Reynolds, Noah Lewis, (Jimmie Davis).
  
  
  Columbia / Okeh
  
  
• December 1927 - Memphis - Reubin Lacy, Rev.C.F Thornton, Rev.F.M Cotton, Walter Rhodes, Lewis Black, Rust College Quartet, Pearl Dickson, Chickasaw Syncopators.
  
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• Feb-March 1928 - Memphis - Jim 'Mooch' Richardson, John Hurt, Nap Hayes & Matthew Prater, Invincible Quartet of Rust College, T.C Johnson & 'Blue Coat' Tom Nelson, I.C Colored Glee Club, Keghouse & Jaybird, Lonnie Johnson, Rev. J.M Gates, Tom Dickson, Elder Richard Bryant's Sanctified Singers
  
  
  Brunswick / Vocalion
  
  
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• Aug-Nov 1929 - Knoxville - Will Bennett, Leola B Manning, Odessa Canselor, Gace Haynes & Eugene Bellenger, Senior Chapel Quartette
  
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• Aug-Nov 1929 - Memphis - Charlie McCoy, Walter Vincent, Furry Lewis, Speckled Red, Robert Wilkins, Jenny Pope, Joe Williams, Jed Davenport, Garfield Akers, Jim Jackson, Joe Calicott, Kid Bailey, Betty Perkins.
  
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• Feb-April 1930 - Memphis - Memphis Minnie, Kansas Joe, Jed davenport, The Yo-Yo BOys, Robert Wilkins, Jenny Pope, Jab Jones, Jim Thompkins, Mattie Delaney, Nathan Scott, Brother Williams' Memphis Sanctified Singers, Madelyn James, Holy Ghost Sanctified Singers, Walter Vincent, Charles McCoy, Jim Jackson.
  
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• Feb-April 1930 - Knoxville - Tennessee Chocolate Drops, Leola B.Manning.
  
  
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• June-July 1939 - Memphis - Little Buddy Doyle, Charlie Burse, Blind Boy Fuller, Bull City Red, Sonny Jones, James De Berry, Jack Kelly
  
  
  Apparently some field recordings were done too.
  
  
  

Nature's Metropolis by Bill Cronon - fascinating story about how Chicago developed into the urban powerhouse it is today

The Name of War by Jill Lepore - a history of King Philip's War of the 17th century, a profoundly bloody conflict between colonists + Indians

This Republic of Suffering, by Drew Gilpin Faust - history of death and suffering in the Civil War (LOVE this book)

The Circus Age, by Janet Davis - a political and cultural history of the circus during the 19th century

Segregating Sound by Karl Hagstrom Miller - how pop music developed from racial categorization