Bonni's book with Larry Taylor: Stepson of the Blues
Posted on April 18, 2011 with 0 commentsBonni co-authored Chicago bluesman Larry Taylor's autobiography, Stepson of the Blues: A Chicago Song of Survival, published in 2011 by her own Peaceful Patriot Press. Larry grew up in the 1950s-60s on the West Side of Chicago, the son of blues musicians. Surviving family abuse and conflict, gangs, prison, drugs, and the streets, he has spent 30 years on stage with his musical elders and contemporaries, changing people’s hard times to good times. What happens when Larry starts to lead his own band and Bonni tries to help? Find out at www.stepsonoftheblues.com
Video from the authors' Oak Park Library Black History Month program of Feb. 23, 2011 shows excerpts of Stepson of the Blues songs and stories