The Voice of the Blues

Jim O'Neal and Amy Van Singel were co-founders publishers, and editors of Living Blues magazine from 1970-87. In this capacity, they interviewed many of the most famous blues musicians on the Chicago and international scene. The magazine helped launch and sustain the blues revival, focusing on living bluesmen, as opposed to more scholarly journals that focused on blues history. O'Neill and Van Singel live in Kansas City, Missouri.

Introduction, Peter Guarlnick Foreword 1. Georgia Tom Dorsey 2. Sleepy John Eestes & Hammie Nixon 3. Hosuton Stackhouse 4. T-Bone Walker 5. Muddy Waters 6. John Lee Hooker 7. Eddie Boyd 8. Little Walter & Louis Myers 9. Jimmy Reed 10. Freddie King 11. Esther Phillips 12. Little Milton