Born on the Delta plantations over 100 years ago, Coley Williams grows up with voodoo spirits singing all night long. He travels the railroads with his guitar on his back; here's when Robert Johnson's pact with the Devil catches up with him in a jar of whiskey poison. He sees Blind Lemon Jefferson playing his own peculiar game of blind man's buff in a Texas cathouse, he drinks with Howling Wolf and Muddy Waters in Chicago, and Elvis in Memphis. He even makes it to London, where he hangs out with "a couple of skinny litle English boys" called Mick and Keith. This novel is a heartfelt tribute to the people and places of the Blues.
- ISBN10 0413753603
- ISBN13 9780413753601
- Publish Date 23 November 2000 (first published 30 May 2000)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 May 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Methuen Publishing Ltd
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 420
- Language English