Hari Kunzu - White Tears

German Edition

"White Tears is a ghost story, a terrifying murder mystery, a timely meditation on race, and a love letter to all the forgotten geniuses of American music and Delta Mississippi Blues.


"An incisive meditation on race, privilege and music. Spanning decades, this novel brings alive the history of old-time blues and America’s racial conscience."—Rabeea Saleem, Chicago Review of Books

Two twenty-something New Yorkers. Seth is awkward and shy. Carter is the glamorous heir to one of America's great fortunes. They have one thing in common: an obsession with music. Seth is desperate to reach for the future. Carter is slipping back into the past. When Seth accidentally records an unknown singer in a park, Carter sends it out over the Internet, claiming it's a long lost 1920s blues recording by a musician called Charlie Shaw. When an old collector contacts them to say that their fake record and their fake bluesman are actually real, the two young white men, accompanied by Carter's troubled sister Leonie, spiral down into the heart of the nation's darkness, encountering a suppressed history of greed, envy, revenge, and exploitation."

Ed Baldwin - SLIDING DELTA - A quest to find Mississippi John Hurt

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Sliding Delta will be released worldwide on June 1st 2016 in ebook format !!

Alan Brown - HAUNTED PLACES in the American South - Your Guide to the spookiest spots in Dixie

Ray Celestin - THE AXMAN`s JAZZ - New Orleans, 1919 as music fills the city, a serial killer strikes

Richard Shade Gardner - FINDING SON HOUSE - One Searcher`s Story

Tom Piazza - A Free State - A Novel

G.J.Cook - The Illustration of Tommy T. & Other Short Stories

Adam Gussow - Busker`s Holiday

Jarrett J Robinson - Chicago City Blues Vol.1 The Blues Moves

James Nuttall - Preaching Blues

David Singer - Imagining Robert Johnson - A Fictional Account

Jim Grimsley - How I Shed My Skin - Unlearning the Racist Lessons of a Southern Childhood

Charles Shaar Murray - The Hellhound Sample

Barry C Davis - Jimmy Barnes

Snowden Wright PLAY PRETTY BLUES A Novel of the Life of Robert Johnson

William T. Vollmann - Riding Toward Nowhere

Carolyn Haines - Delta Blues

From the introduction by Morgan Freeman:

This collection of short fiction captures both the art of the tale and the power of the blues, and is a nod at the human condition that often inspires musicians to write and sing the blues. These stories tell about bad men and bad women who sometimes do good—or sometimes follow their true nature. Some of these characters know all about the dangers of making a bargain with the devil. And some know the power of redemption. These are characters who would not be out of place in a Honeyboy Edwards tune, and would be right at home alongside the desolate wail of Clarksdale, Mississippi, native Son House.

A dollar donation for every book sold will be given to the Rock River Foundation, a charity dedicated to helping the arts and literacy in the Delta.

Contributing to the volume are Ace Atkins, Lynne Barrett, James Lee Burke, Suzann Ellingsworth, Beth Ann Fennelly, Bill Fitzhugh, Tom Franklin, John Grisham, Carolyn Haines, Charlaine Harris, Suzanne Hudson, Alice Jackson, Dean James, Toni L.P. Kelner, Michael Lister, Daniel Martine, Mary Saums, David Sheffield, Nathan Singer, and Les Standiford.

Gerard Herzhaft - Long Blues In A Minor

A strange, moving account of a young French blues fan's relationship with an old, illiterate, alcoholic bluesman, Long Blues in A Minor presents a picture of what blues music looks like from the inside and what America looks like from the outside.