Introduction to the New Edition
Foreword
Part I The Life
1. The Heroine
2. Woman with Guitar: The Rise of Memphis Minnie
3. Southern Nights
4. Chicago Days
5. Me and My Chauffeur
6. “I Drink Anywhere I Please”
Part II The Songs
7. “The Best Thing Goin’”
8. To Make Heard the Interior Voice
9. Bumble Bee
10. Crime
11. Dirt Dauber Blues
12. Doctors and Disease
13. Doors
14. Dirty Dozens
15. Duets
16. Food and Cooking
17. Horses
18. Trains and Travel
19. Mad Love
20. Work
Appendices
Locations of Memphis Minnie Nightclub Performances
WPA Interview
A Discography of Memphis Minnie
Titles of LPs and CDs that Appear in the Discography
Notes
Index
