Terms from the Blues

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 03:02:44PM -0500, George Thompson wrote:
>
> There was a "concordance" to early recorded blues published
> 20 years ago: Blues lyric poetry: a concordance, by Michael
> Taft.  New York: Garland Pub.,1984, 3 vols.  This was a
> companion to his Blues lyric poetry: an anthology, New York:
> Garland Pub., 1983, 379 pp.  It is of course availabe at
> better libraries everywhere, but not at Bobst, NYU.  It is
> at Yale, however.

It's also out of print, with no copies available at the usual
online used-book sites. But it's highly important and worth
looking at, if you have access to a better library.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED