Books
For children, K-3 grade

• Roger Thomas, Jazz and Blues (Instruments in Music)
• Alan Schroeder, Floyd Cooper (illus.) Satchmo's Blues
• Andrea Davis Pinkney, Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra (Caldecott Honor Book)
• Ruth Tuk, I am African American
• Sonya Kimble-Ellis, Traditional African-American Arts and Activities

For children, 9-12 years

• Andy Koopmans, The History of the Blues
• Nicolas Brasch, Jazz and Blues
• Walter Dean Myers, Christopher Myers (illus.), Blues Journey (Bccb Blue Ribbon Nonfiction Book Award)

For 6th to 12th grade

• Jerry Silverman, The Blues
• Giles Oakley, The Devil's Music: A History of the Blues

For adults

• Tony Bolden, Afro-Blue: Improvisations in African American Poetry and Culture
• David Evans, Big Road Blues: Tradition and Creativity in the Folk Blues
• Barry Lee Pearson, Jook Right On : Blues Stories and Blues Storytellers
• Barry Lee Pearson, Sounds So Good to Me: The Bluesman's Story
• Barry Lee Pearson, Bill McCulloch, Robert Johnson: Lost and Found (Music in American Life)
• Elijah Wald, Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues
• Bill Ferris, Blues from the Delta
• Chip Deffaa, Blue Rhythms: Six Lives in Rhythm and Blues
• Jacqui Malone, Steppin' on the Blues: The Visible Rhythms of African American Dance
• Steven C. Tracy, Langston Hughes and the Blues
• Vladimir Bogdanov, Chris Woodstra, Stephen Thomas Erlewine, editors, All Music Guide to the Blues: The Definitive Guide to the Blues
• Robert Palmer, Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta
• Lawrence Cohn, editor, Nothing But the Blues: The Music and the Musicians
• Alan Lomax, The Land Where the Blues Began
• Vladimir Bogdanov, All Music Guide to the Blues: The Definitive Guide to the Blues
• James Segrest, Moanin' at Midnight : The Life and Times of Howlin' Wolf
• Nadine Cohodas, Spinning Blues into Gold: The Chess Brothers and the Legendary Chess Records
• B. B. King, David Ritz, Blues All around Me: The Autobiography of B. B. King
• Jeff Todd Titon, ed. Downhome Blues Lyrics: An Anthology from the Post-World War II Era

Film

• Robert Mugge, "Deep Blues: A Musical Pilgrimage to the Crossroads"
• Danny Glover, "The Life and Music of Robert Johnson: Can't You Hear the Wind Howl?" (DVD)
• "Blues Story" (DVD)
  

Music

• "Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: The Best of the Blues" (CD)
• Etta James, "Blues to the Bone" (CD)
• Kevin Burt and the Instigators, "Worth the Weight" (CD)
• Kevin "B.F." Burt, My Babies Got the Blues" (CD)
• Boardman, editor, A Journey of the Blues, Mississippi Valley Blues Society, Davenport, IA (book & CD)

Web Sites

• Smithsonian Folkways: Blues
• Iowa Blues Hall of Fame