PAGES:280
DIMENSIONS:6.00(w) x 9.01(h) x 0.50(d) Inches
FORMAT: Softcover
AUTHOR:Steve Bergsman,Foreword by Eugene Robinson

People think Im stark-raving crazy, well, if that enables me to go to the bank, gentlemen, I want you to know I shall always be crazy. Its a pleasure to be crazy.Screamin Jay Hawkins

Screamin Jay Hawkins was larger than life as he emerged from a coffin with a skull on stick singing I Put A Spell On You. With one song, Screamin Jay, who studied piano and sang opera, became the embodiment of the sexually insatiable, voodoo empowered, black man feared by 1950s America caught between a self-created myth and a nearly unbelievable truth, which story is better?

Jay, his family, and bandmates to weave a new tale of the life of this seminal rock and roll pioneer. Can the truth of Screamin Jay Hawkins really be known?

Legendary journalist, writer, and musician Eugene Robinson contributes a rivetting foreword about Jays influence on music and the black identity.

Author Steve Bergsman has contributed to more than 100 magazines, newspapers and wire services for the past twenty-five years.