By Dick Waterman
Hardcover | 176 pages
9 x 12 inches | 978-1-886069-75-6

Over 120 quadtone photographs

Between Midnight and Day features many of the most important photographs from Dick Waterman's unparalleled vintage blues archive. Beginning in 1964 with the rediscovery of legendary blues singer Son House, Waterman established Avalon Productions, the first agency devoted exclusively to managing and promoting blues musicians. While acting as their manager, he photographed blues legends like Son House, Skip James, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, Otis Rush, Booker White, Arthur Crudup, John Hurt, Robert Pete Williams and many more.

Between Midnight and Day: The Last Unpublished Blues Archive includes Waterman's vivid accounts of such musicians as John Lee Hooker, Sippie Wallace, Eric Clapton, Bobby Blue Bland, Janis Joplin, Willie Dixon, Furry Lewis, Bob Dylan, Luther Allison and Fred McDowell.

Includes previously unpublished  photographs, as well as personal reminiscence of Waterman's friendships with many of these musicians.

Dick Waterman (born July 14, 1935) is an American writer, promoter and photographer who has been influential in the development and recording of blues music since the 1960s.Waterman he studied journalism at Boston University in the 1950s. In 1963, he began to promote local shows with blues artists including Mississippi John Hurt and Booker "Bukka" White. The next year, he went to Mississippi on a quest that eventually led to the "rediscovery" of legendary blues singer Son House.

Following this, he founded Avalon Productions, the first booking agency ever formed to represent blues artists. Within a few years, he was representing House, Hurt, White, Skip James, Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins, Arthur Crudup, Junior Wells, J. B. Hutto and many others. In the late 1960s he met a young female guitarist and singer named Bonnie Raitt and persuaded her to begin what has become a long, fruitful music career.[1][2]

As the older blues artists died, Waterman's responsibilities shifted to taking care of their estates and providing for their heirs. He moved to Oxford, Mississippi, in the 1980s and began a second career publishing the photographs of blues, folk, country and jazz artists that he had been taking since the early 1960s. His book Between Midnight and Day: The Last Unpublished Blues Archive contains about 100 of his photographs from the 1960s onwards.

In 1993 Waterman was instrumental in placing a new headstone on the grave of Mississippi Fred McDowell with funding from Bonnie Raitt through the Mt. Zion Memorial Fund. Waterman delivered a stirring tribute to McDowell, an early mentor of younger musicians including Raitt, at the dedication ceremony on August 6, 1993, in Como, Mississippi.

In 2000 he was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame, as one of the first non-performers to be so honored.