“...These true stories are told with a powerful voice and eloquent style, that truly impress the listener.”
Rebecca Harmon, The Bloomsbury Review
“True-Life Adventure Stories, an audio-cassette adapted from the book “Brother Blue: a narrative portrait” by Warren Lehrer... is powerful storytelling — that seeps through your body and soaks your soul... “
Nichole Bishop, The Tab
“Contemporary folk tales, dramatically read in the first person by Brother Blue... Powerful collection of short stories... Especially recommended for those involved in black studies...”
Gordon Blackwell, Library Journal
“Absolutely delightful! Brother Blue’s stories, captured by Lehrer over a period of at least seven years as he observed, conversed, and interacted with this remarkable storyteller/philosopher, provide the text... From Brother Blue we have much to learn... I was brought to tears...”
Shanta Nurullah, The Bloomsbury Review
“With his melancholy, utterly humane face, the signature blue jacket and celebratory adornments, Brother Blue, official storyteller of Boston, has been a streetside fixture of the landscape for decades. Here he is on tape, telling tales of racial pain in his voice full of homey, earthy longing... Most haunting is the story of his father who...
Bostonian Magazine
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