Josephine Matyas and Craig Jones - Author Event

Authors will bring books to sell, available at a special price. 

Chasing the Blues: A Traveler's Guide to America's Music is aimed at music lovers - like us - whose childhood was enlivened and improved by rock and roll, the love child of the blues.

The Mississippi Delta birthed this extraordinary and historically important cultural and musical form and sent it out to the world to revolutionize everything it touched. 

Co-authors Josephine Matyas and Craig Jones combine their award-winning research and writing skills to entice all travellers and traveller-wannabees to join them on this fascinating and exhilarating journey to the origin of it all. 

Chasing the Blues has won two major awards. It's the recipient of the Lowell Thomas Award (Bronze) for Best Travel Guidebook 2022, from the Society of American Travel Writers and the First Place winner for Best Travel Book from the Travel Media Association of Canada. 

Chasing the Blues is published by Backbeat Books (Rowman & Littlefield) and is available at online sellers as well as bookstores everywhere.