PART I: THE SEARCH FOR BLIND LEMON (1941–1971)
Chapter 1: Went to See the Gypsy (1961)
Chapter 2: “My Father Was a Travelin’ Man …” (1787–1949)
Chapter 5: Butterfly and Dishrag (1955–67)
Chapter 6: Pretty Browns in Beautiful Gowns (1949–55)
Chapter 7: Daddy-O Dewey (1949–58)
Chapter 8: Big Jim and Elvis (1949–1956)
Chapter 9: On a Train That Is Passing Through (1955)
Chapter 10: The Regents (1957–60)
Chapter 11: The Point and the Setting Sun (1957–60)
Chapter 12: Dire Females (1955–63)
Chapter 13: Vassapoo, Open D Guitar Tuning (Fall 1959)
Chapter 14: The Casino with Scotty and Bill (1960)
Chapter 15: Bring On the Bullet (1960)
Chapter 16: The Very First Time (1956–60)
Chapter 17: Vampus of the Campus (1960)
Chapter 18: Back and Forth, Up and Down (1960)
Chapter 19: The Plot Sickens (1960)
Chapter 20: Second Semester: What the Monkey Saw (1961)
Chapter 21: Spring Poems (1961)
Chapter 22: More Back and Forth, Up and Down (1961)
Chapter 23: Homecoming Queen: It’s Never Too Late (1961)
Chapter 24: “Big D” (little “a”) (1961–62)
Chapter 25: Back to the Burying Ground (1962)
Chapter 26: All up in Sonny’s Bed (1962)
Chapter 27: Lost in the Woods (1962–63)
Chapter 28: Market Theatre (1963)
Chapter 29: Ol’ Sam Hess (1963)
Chapter 30: Oso and Dixieland Folk Style (1963)
Chapter 31: New Beale Street Sheiks and the Return of Will Shade (1963)
Chapter 32: Ray Brown: The Round Mound of Sound (1964–69)
Chapter 33: Married, Return to Waco, and Good Kid—The All-Time Champ (1964)
Chapter 34: Granny’s Sewing Room (1965)
Chapter 35: Free Teddy Paige/Memphis Country Blues Festival (1966–67)
Chapter 36: Tom Dowd and Knowbody Else (1967–68)
Chapter 37: In My Youth I Sought the Truth like Stanley Booth (1967–69)
Chapter 38: Stones in My Passway (1969)
Chapter 39: “You Got to Move” (1970)
Chapter 40: “One More Silver Dollar” (1970)
Chapter 41: Return of the Phantom (1970–71)
Chapter 42: Hollywood Be Thy Name (1972)