Introduction 1. Mascalzoni 2. The Temple of Music 3. Hey-Hey 4. The Shadows of Certain Sounds 5. Blue Devils 6. The New World Acknowledgment Notes Bibliography Index
Joe Gioia was born in Rochester, New York, and is a graduate of Kenyon College. Formerly senior editor at Modern Photography and a contributing editor at American Photo, he was an early contributor to Salon.com and is the author of Divide's Guide to Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He lives in Chicago, where he is at work on a narrative history of photography.
"Gioia's re-visioning of America's six-string past is a worthwhile trip to take ... even when he is tracing a path that is otherwise well blazed, Gioia's fugitive purpose of shining light on indigenous confluences of American roots music ultimately, like so many great epic destinations, and blues songs, brings it on home." - Studies in Popular Culture "Gioia ... offer[s] some intriguing and meticulously researched theories on the blending of musical cultures in America." - Publishers Weekly "Gioia has spun an odd web: Sicilian guitar-maker forebearers, a 111 year ago presidential assassination, a hypothesis that American Indians had as big an influence on blues roots as African Americans. Altogether, a deliberately spinning teacup ride of a book." - Tony Glover, coauthor of Blues with a Feeling: The Little Walter Story "Inspired by an ancestor who emigrated from Sicily to Buffalo, New York, where he became a legendary luthier, Joe Gioia uses his personal history as a point of embarkation to explore the guitar's place in American roots music. From the Delta to Appalachia, and many points in between, this fascinating road map introduces readers to a cast of intriguing people and places." - Holly George-Warren, author of Public Cowboy No. 1: The Life and Times of Gene Autry "The book is the best kind of American memoir, because it moves easily and naturally from one subject to another (apparently) quite different subject, adding up to an essay on what it means to be an American. It is ... the best non-fiction page-turner I have read in quite a while ... We need books like this one, lest we forget who we are." - Donald Clarke, editor of The Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music
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