Southern Soul-Blues by David Whiteis Receives Blues Book of the Year Award

Southern Soul-Blues by David Whiteis has been chosen the Blues Book of the Year in the 2014 Critic’s Poll of Living Blues magazine as part of the 21st Annual Living Blues Awards.

In Southern Soul-Blues writer David Whiteis underlines some of southern soul’s most popular and important entertainers and provides first-hand accounts from the clubs, show lounges, festivals, and other local venues where these performers work.

Profiles of veteran artists such as Denise LaSalle, the late J. Blackfoot, Latimore, and Bobby Rush–as well as contemporary artists T. K. Soul, Ms. Jody, Sweet Angel, Willie Clayton, and Sir Charles Jones– allude to issues of faith and sensuality, artistic identity and stereotyping, trickster antics, and future directions of the genre.