Blues Is a Feeling: Voices and Visions of African-American Blues Musicians

The Blues is a Feeling is a book for followers of blues music, photographic book collectors, and readers interested in African-American studies in music and culture. Presented here are 100 black-and-white duotone photographs by James Fraher.

The exquisite photographs are accompanied by quotations selected from interviews Fraher conducted with each musician he photographed. The quotations share with the reader some of the musicians' feelings about the music they make-where the blues came from and where it is going-and offer insights into the evolution of a blues artist. Included in the book are photographs and quotes from Buddy Guy, Koko Taylor, Sunnyland Slim, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Willie Kent, Junior Kimbrough and many more of the African-American men and women who have made the blues one of America's greatest musical traditions.