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Of Bloodlines and Blue Notes Lyrics, Album Notes and Critical Essays

Of Bloodlines and Blue Notes is a hybrid work of music writing and cultural criticism by Terry Blade that brings together lyrics, album notes, and essays grounded in Black American blues as lived practice. Written in conversation with three interconnected albums, American Descendant of Slavery, Ethos: Son of a Sharecropper, and Chicago Kinfolk: The Juke Joint Blues, the book treats music as evidence. Songs are not presented as nostalgia or abstraction, but

eBook, English, 2026
BLADE ARTHOUSE MEDIA, La Vergne, 2026