Of Bloodlines and Blue Notes is a hybrid work of music writing and cultural criticism by Terry Blade that brings together lyrics, album notes, and essays grounded in Black American blues as lived practice.Written in conversation with three interconnected albums, American Descendant of Slavery, Ethos: Son of a Sharecropper, and Chicago Kinfolk: The Juke Joint Blues, the book treats music as evidence. Songs are not presented as nostalgia or...

Thirty two poems in free verse and form by Terry Blade, wanderer, trans queer, environmental refugee, neuro nightmare, arguably human, definitely flawed. This collection traverses decades, and expanses that lie outside the realms of time and space.