I PUT A SPELL ON YOU: THE BIZARRE LIFE OF SCREAMIN' JAY HAWKINS BOOK

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 I’m stark-raving crazy, well, if that enables me to go to the bank, gentlemen, I want you to know I shall always be crazy. It’s 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 1950’s 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 Jay’s 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.