The band’s success continues to grow, and they win a battle of the bands competition in Seattle. The sisters join the band as singers, and Thomas and Chess start a relationship. At a concert on a nearby reservation, they meet Flathead Indian sisters named Chess and Checkers. The band gains popularity and begins to play shows. The magical, talking guitar instructs Thomas to start a band, and he recruits his friends Victor and Junior as guitarist and drummer, respectively.
There, he meets Thomas Builds-the-Fire, who takes Johnson to Big Mom and ends up in possession of Johnson’s guitar. Years later, Johnson regrets the deal and travels to the Spokane Indian Reservation to meet with Big Mom, a mythical figure who he believes can help him. Robert is a fabled guitar player who sold his soul to the devil in exchange for his musical talents. In Reservation Blues, National Book Award winner Alexie vaults with ease from comedy to tragedy and back in a tour-de-force outing powered by a collision of cultures: Delta blues and Indian rock.The novel begins with the arrival of Robert Johnson to the reservation. It all started one day when legendary bluesman Robert Johnson showed up on the Spokane Indian Reservation with a magical guitar, leaving it on the floor of Thomas Builds-the-Fire’s van after setting off to climb Wellpinit Mountain in search of Big Mom.
The band sings its own brand of the blues, full of poverty, pain, and loss-but also joy and laughter. Backup vocals come from sisters Chess and Checkers Warm Water.
Thomas Builds-the-Fire takes vocals and bass guitar, Victor Joseph hits lead guitar, and Junior Polatkin rounds off the sound on drums. Winner of the American Book Award and the Murray Morgan Prize, Sherman Alexie’s brilliant first novel tells a powerful tale of Indians, rock ’n’ roll, and redemptionĬoyote Springs is the only all-Indian rock band in Washington State-and the entire rest of the world.
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