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Without the help of the Pace Trust—and our friends, the trustees Laura Orr and David Orr—this book would not have been able to appear in its present form. To them we owe our greatest thanks.

The information supplied by Daisy Douglas Johnson and Ethel Douglas was crucial to our ability to sketch such a solid version of Minnie, as was that supplied by Brewer Phillips, Homesick James, Jimmy Rogers, Johnny Shines, Sunnyland Slim, Big Lucky Carter, Bill Dicey, Champion Jack Dupree, Joe Duskin, Mose Vinson and Wade Walton. What secrets would have remained hidden without the extraordinary interviewing talents of Jim O’Neal (Homesick James, Jimmy Rogers) and Steve Cushing (Brewer Phillips). The testimony they were able to elicit shaped this book in many important ways. To Jim O’Neal we owe an extra debt of thanks for combing through his numerous interview tapes and unearthing diverse and wonderful reminiscences by Blind John Davis, Memphis Slim, Sunnyland Slim, James Watt and more.

Critical assistance and advice was supplied by Georges Adins, David Evans, Don Kent, David Orr, Pam Raitz, David Roediger, Franklin Rosemont, Penelope Rosemont, Adena Siegel and Bev Zeldin. Photographs were kindly made available to us by Georges Adins, Blues Unlimited, Dennis Bonner, The Center for Southern Folklore, Amie Devereux, The Harry Godwin Collection, Juke Blues, Jo Ann Kelly, Harvey Newland, Nick Perls and John Summaria. Composer credits from 78 rpm issues came from our own collection and from Howard Berg, Joe Bussard, Don Kent, Mike Rowe, Russ Shor, Darryl Stolper, Sherman Tolen, Clint Wilson and Terry Zwigoff.

Various documents that appear throughout the book were supplied by the Blues Archive at the University of Mississippi, the staff at the Chicago Federation of Musicians (Local 10-208 of the American Federation of Musicians), Larry Cohn, Joel Silver and William Cagle of The Lilly Library, Paul Oliver, The Rodgers and Hammerstein Sound Archives of the New York Public Library, Sharon Howard at The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and Dick Shurman.

Indeed, we have even more to be grateful for, and we extend our heartfelt thanks to the following individuals and institutions: the Catfish Institute; Michel Chaigne; Columbia College Library; James Craddock; David R. Crippen, Curator of Automotive History, Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village; Norman Darwen; F. Wentworth Ford; Hugh Ford; M. Forshage; Gérard Herzhaft; Terry House; Robert G. Koester; Sam Lehman, MD; Sandra Lieb; Living Blues; Thomas Magee; Memphis Shelby County Public Library and Information Center, History Department, and Memphis Room; Memphis and Shelby County Film, Tape and Music Commission; Brian Myers; Hal Rammel; Mike Rowe; Neil Slaven; Soul Bag; Richard Spottswood; Christopher Starr; Chris Strachwitz; Charles Sweningsen; Tom Tsotsi; Ernest Virgo; John Waldrop; and Ted Watts.

Part of the chapter on Dirt Dauber Blues appeared earlier in Arsenal: Surrealist Subversion 4. (Chicago: Black Swan Press, 1989).