Available again in paperback, Going to Cincinnati takes readers into the Queen City’s long-overlooked blues scene. Steven C. Tracy’s award-winning book blends history and analysis with full biographical sketches of bluesmen like Albert Washington, H-Bomb Ferguson, Big Joe Duskin, Pigmeat Jarrett. The result is a celebrated, one-of-a-kind portrait of a scene filled with unique and talented musicians and essential to understanding American blues.

Steven C. Tracy is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the author of Hot Music, Ragmentation, and the Bluing of American Literature and Langston Hughes and the Blues, and editor of Black Writers of the Chicago Renaissance.

“The only man who could write a book about the Cincinnati blues field.”
—Albert Washington