Lil' Choo-Choo Johnson, Bluesman

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Lil' Choo-Choo Johnson, Bluesman

Bryan Krull's first novel, Lil' Choo-Choo Johnson, Bluesman, will be released in Spring 2010. It is a historical fiction novel about a young Mississippi boy who becomes a blues guitar legend. Earl “Lil’ Choo-Choo” Johnson left home at the age of 10, with only his father’s guitar, and stepped into the world of the Delta blues. A guitar prodigy, his music led him to play with blues legends like Robert Johnson, Charley Patton, Son House, Howlin’ Wolf, and Muddy Waters. Lil’ Choo-Choo’s story is a history of the blues, from sharecropper’s shacks on Dockery’s Plantation and whiskey-soaked juke joints in Depression-era Mississippi to the swinging clubs of post-war Memphis and Chicago. It encompasses the heyday of the Delta blues, the birth of rock and roll, the British invasion, the blues revival of the 1960s, and beyond.