TY - BOOK AU - Cheatham,Jeannie AU - Cheatham,Jimmy ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Meet me with your black drawers on: my life in music AV - ML420.C4705 A3 2006 U1 - 781.65/092B 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Austin PB - University of Texas Press KW - Cheatham, Jeannie. KW - Singers KW - United States KW - Biography KW - African American women jazz singers KW - Women blues musicians KW - Electronic books N1 - Prologue : brand-new blues -- Back to the 'hood -- The piano -- Three visitors -- Mr. Arthur Reginald Riley -- Funerals -- The Reverend Uncle Frank, lessons on men, and finding Jesus -- The coming of the cold -- Summer heat -- Wrong direction -- The new house -- It's an ill wind that don't blow somebody some good -- Yellow cab to the red-light district -- Junkies and jazz -- World War II : let the good times roll -- Just get on the greyhound, girl -- The Evans exodus -- Jailhouse blues -- From hell to heaven blues -- Snowbound -- The song of the Colvinaires -- New baby blues -- A blizzard of birdshit -- The colors of many changes -- Triumph, tragedy, turmoil, and tenor players -- A little love song -- Little Mattie, big mama, and the beautiful Miss M -- The blues and the Buffalo scuffle -- Escape from Buffalo -- New York City, ditty-wah-ditty -- Fatback -- Bronx gulag and agoraphobia -- The light shineth in the darkness -- From hell to academia -- Welcome to Wisconsin -- On the move in Madison -- Movin' an' moanin', groovin' an' groanin' in Madison -- The way west -- Pipe dreamin' in the valley of smoke -- A standing O in San Diego -- Take it! -- Beelzebub and the mad Mexican -- Make a joyful noise! -- New mule kickin' in our stall -- Blues on the omnibus -- Blow out at the Belly Up Tavern and the birth of three -- Generations of the blues -- Mr. Jefferson comes to town -- The birth of the Sweet Baby Blues Band -- Hot bulbs and hot flashes -- Sturm und drang blues : Vienne, France -- Shoofly pie with Shafafa in the Hague -- Chickenshit or chicken salad? -- How long? -- Effluvia and euphoria -- From slavery to the White House -- Tears of sorrow -- Blues like Jay McShann -- Abc : around the world, beyond betrayal, celebrations -- Livin' in the nineties -- Making history in a small hotel -- Back to Bina Avenue; Compact disc contents: Meet me with your black drawers on -- Big fat daddy -- How long blues -- C.C. Rider -- Take the wrinkles out your birthday suit -- Messin' round with the boogie; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3571692 ER -