TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rosen,Renee
TI  - Windy City blues
SN  - 9781101991121
U1  - 813/.6 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Berkley
KW  - Jewish women
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Blues musicians
KW  - Interracial dating
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Illinois
KW  - Chicago
KW  - Civil rights movements
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Chicago (Ill.)
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references
N2  - In the middle of the twentieth century, the music of the Mississippi Delta arrived in Chicago, drawing the attention of entrepreneurs like the Chess brothers. Their label, Chess Records, helped shape that music into the Chicago Blues, the soundtrack for a transformative era in American History. But, for Leeba Groski, Chess Records was just where she worked... Leeba doesn't exactly fit in, but her passion for music is not lost on her neighbor, Leonard Chess, who offers her a job at his new record company. What begins as answering phones and filing becomes much more as Leeba comes into her own as a songwriter and befriends performers like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Chuck Berry and Etta James. But she also finds love with a black blues guitarist named Red Dupree. With their relationship unwelcome in segregated Chicago and the two of them shunned by Leeba's Orthodox Jewish family, Leeba and Red soon find themselves in the middle of the Civil Rights Movement and they discover that, in times of struggle, music can bring people together
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