![]() ![]() This ebook features an illustrated biography including rare photos from the author’s personal collection. In Reservation Blues, National Book Award winner Alexie vaults with ease from comedy to tragedy and back in a tour-de-force outing powered by a collision of cultures: Delta blues and Indian rock. ![]() It all started one day when legendary bluesman Robert Johnson showed up on the Spokane Indian Reservation with a magical guitar, leaving it on the floor of Thomas Builds-the-Fire’s van after setting off to climb Wellpinit Mountain in search of Big Mom. ![]() The band sings its own brand of the blues, full of poverty, pain, and loss-but also joy and laughter. Backup vocals come from sisters Chess and Checkers Warm Water. Thomas Builds-the-Fire takes vocals and bass guitar, Victor Joseph hits lead guitar, and Junior Polatkin rounds off the sound on drums. This ebook features an illustrated biography including rare photos from the authors personal collection. ![]() The men and women who struggle to eke out a meager living on the Spokane Reservation in Wellpinit. In Reservation Blues, National Book Award winner Alexie vaults with ease from comedy to tragedy and back in a tour-de-force outing powered by a collision of cultures: Delta blues and Indian rock. Winner of the American Book Award and the Murray Morgan Prize, Sherman Alexie’s brilliant first novel tells a powerful tale of Indians, rock ’n’ roll, and redemptionĬoyote Springs is the only all-Indian rock band in Washington State-and the entire rest of the world. Sherman Alexies extraordinary debut novel, 'Reservation Blues,' is not about Native Americans. ![]()
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